Does anyone find it slightly amusing that the person who will become the world’s richest woman is only setting that record by divorcing the world’s richest man?
They do a great job in demonstrating that just as God could cause David to slay a giant with a pebble, God could raise up Christ the Savior out of a poor, often disobedient and barbaric people.
Fair. But out of the publicly declared net worths and mainstream narrative rankings, the point stands.
Is that not the biblical narrative? The entire old terstsment is God being faithful despite the Jews constantly breaking their covenant. Even when God makes the covenant with Abraham, He puts him to sleep and performs both parties rituals. He’s signalling that God is doing this Himself, using these people in spite of themselves not because of their exceptionalism.
A pebble slayed Goliath. Trumpets brought down the walls of Jericho. Jesus was born in a manager, resided in Nazareth (a town often ridiculed), and rode in on a donkey. He highlights that His kingdom is like a mighty tree grown from a tiny seed, or an entire loaf of bread being levened by a small amount of yeast.
I think it’s safe to say God plays on hard mode to demonstrate His ability. The Jews being chosen to produce and receive the Messiah should not be seen as a statement of their inherent superior value. God often implies the opposite about that which He chooses to work through.