Fred Clark expresses concern that Jesus might have been motivated by something other than Christianity.
“It is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or to visit a Gentile,” Jesus’ disciple Peter said. And that was true. That was law. That was Bible.
But Jesus doesn’t mention any of those clobber texts. Nor does he heed them. Instead, Jesus heads directly to the unclean home of this unclean outsider. He exhibits an appallingly low view of the authority of scripture by — what’s the word they always use? — trampling on the clear, authoritative teachings of the Bible. …
It’s enough to make one wonder whether Jesus was even a Christian at all.
via Jesus, clobber-texts, and the centurion’s ‘companion’, emphasis mine.