Gay Marriage: Analysis Of Newsweek's Article
Post 1: The Beginning
Post 2: Journalistic Integrity
Post 3: Bible And Marriage
Post 4: Homosexuality and the Bible
Post 5: Remaining Issues
Dr. Darrell Bock is Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He also is Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture there. He is an Editor at Large for Christianity Today and is a Past President of the Evangelical Theological Society (2000-2001). He is the author of over twenty books and is a New York Times Best Selling author. He has been blogging on this site since May, 2006.
I was troubled when I heard that the Discovery channel would be airing a program on the the tomb of Jesus. What was most alarming to me was seeing images of a skull being removed from an ossuary bearing the name "Jesus son of Joseph." Frankly, I was nervous about watching the program, concerned that the strength the evidence would be hard for me to reject.
But while watching it, I was surprised by how accepting the program was toward the New Testament. Yet it simply rejected the New Testament's reason for why the body of Jesus was missing from the garden tomb.
Matthew 28:6
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
Mark 16:6
"Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him."
Luke 24:5–7
In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' "
The film claiming instead that the body was missing because the disciplines had moved it.
This hypothesis presents its own set of problems which the film overlooks.
It was apparent to me that the filmmakers were selling snake oil. The goal was to put out as convincingly as possible that the ossuary found was that of Jesus and ignore anything to the contrary.