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That was just an allegory like the parables to show the point of God's mercy and love for anyone who has faith in God. The Israelites were the 1st people to have a covenant with El Shaddai, living God on high, thanks to father Abraham who is the founder for not only those of the Jewish faith, but also the Christian and Muslim faithful.

The SyroPhoenician woman was only asking for God's blessing to be part of Jesus's Kingdom of Heaven. Our Lord just chided her gently with the promise of God's covenant fulfilled 1st to the Jewish people as God Almighty had always promised. She was showing her true faith in the son of God by saying that even the dogs live off the scraps of the children, which shows that God loves and accepts everyone who has faith in Him. That's also why the blessings of Christianity passed also unto the Gentiles thru the ministry of St Paul, but that's a further development of why we're all God's children if we want to believe in His everloving salvation.

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