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And the ultimate outcome of that debate was this ...
John 4
21 Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
What He did not say is "your worship of what you don't know does not matter".
He told her that "salvation is of the jews" and in so doing - informed her that clinging to a stubborn rejection of the fact that God had setup the Jews and Jerusalem and that it was from them that the Messiah would come - she would not have salvation.
There is no such thing as "worship God in Spirit and in Truth" while stubbornly rejecting Truth or "Worship God in spirit but not in Truth".
John 17:17 "sanctify them in Thy Truth - Thy WORD is Truth"
In vain do they worship Me teaching for doctrine the "Commandments of men" - Mark 7:6-13
That's not what was going on here. She was not stubbornly rejecting the fact that God would bring salvation through the Jews.
I did not say she was -- I said that Jesus informs her of the seriousness of rejecting the fact that the Jews had the true religion when He said "salvation is of the Jews".
What a perfect example of a "debate over religions" and Jesus pointing to one as actually being right "salvation is of the Jews"..
Imagine if God were to say to day "salvation is of the methodists".
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