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.
Thanks Ron. I can only blog there which I have. I spiratically threw a bunch of thought and theory in that the Christian side is not looking at it seems. If you see what I have stated it is what others are going to cry foul over. I am spending a lot on P3 and have seen many miracles; Which is why I can not throw away my faith on this issue. However given the unlikelyhood I suspect either sabatage in the past or God's plan by He or what he allowed because of a greater purpose. They would have never made the movie without the tie to the Divinci Code, this Jesus having a son, and being linked to this Mary. This could filter a lot of complacent and potentially faithless lukewarm christians in the last days. It will have a tremendous impact. See my brainstorms below and make sense if you can. I asked Ted to ask you about many things you brought up such as Gods Spirit pored on all flesh as well as others being attributed to the day of Pentecost; that if looking at the original greek much of this has already happened? Just curious..
Read below. It was written badly and was a bunch of thoughts and emails grouped together. I did not want to re hash to make it flow better; forgive me.. I want to re adjust my focus as you mentioned.. Although you mentioned that Man places wording as they see it at times; God saying He wished He never would have created us? That is still stating God made a mistake and could be blasphemy??
Wasn't Mary Magdalene the one Jesus loved? Is she the one they said he fathered a child with? She and Mary mother of James were servants? They may have all received ossuaries. Some may insinuate that she fathered a child with Jesus and ended up with ossuaries in that family tomb of her master who may have been the mother of James..Not Jesus brother. That Jesus ossuary was different because He died first. Many may say this because they were the first to discover the missing body. Shown in Mark. We should refute all ideas and theories before they begin to prepare. This stuff will screw up a lot of people and need to be prepared to give an answer to all their questions.. I will not spend much more time on this and dive in to other stuff.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Statistics left out..Need to discredit all claim potential!
Please take this into account on stats as well.. We see another dismissal of Mary Mara being dissed as through it could contain as it was common place; two women in one ossuary. It would make sense that Mary and Martha would have been placed in the same ossuaries as they were sisters. Remember the sister cleaned to prepare for Jesus? Jesus said that the one who spent time with him was doing the better. These were maybe the two sisters Mary and Martha in one ossuary. Now the stats need to configure yet another into the crazy stats. A child attributing the one of only two women in the tomb regardless of the name is relevant considering she could have been attributed to anyone at all in that tomb and is another what are the chances stat.Do you think they thought by what they said that they meant that he will come back right then or to keep looking up because no one knows the day or the hour? The age seems just right. 30 -70 ad. is when Jesus died; the rest to follow. Given 1000 years or so ossuaries and tombs in that area were used i.e.600 bc. to 300 ad.; the timeframe matches great they all died at that time. The timeframe chances are 1 in 10 wich is ten times the chances to add. I really thank you and hope for a great book. It will be better to have all the possible arguments to refute before they arise. The other is that if Jesus was the first to die and they moved His bones they would have had a smaller more insignificant ossuary; his was smaller and plain. I am a Christian and if no answers am leaning on Him orchestrating this fing to separate..spew the lukewarm out of his mouth in the last days?? Below is an eail I answered with to some friends regarding stats that you have not received. Thanks again.. Jeff WallenI get so twisted up by stats.. Even the dating is the right time 30 ad to 80 ad. out of 1000 years of possibilities. My thought was what are the chances? 600 to 1..w/Mary attributed to Jesus..6000 to 1 then w/ Jesus ossuary diff from the others 60000 to 1 then the dating 6000000 to 1.. The name grouping is out of a small sampleing.. I hope we can come up with some stuff. I thought at first Smuggling Jesus body in but then Judah son of Jesus threw me off. I think maybe God may have had inspired another middle class family to name their kids names what they were for that grouping. God sent a deceptive spirit before. Weeding out the luke warm in the last days? Rob said that that partained to another people group though way back then. I hit a breaking point yesterday. I cried all day. I have a lot to live for but my sandy foundation needs hardening.I just have such a hard time with the chances. It also seems that our side is using things like location and class to justify the improbability rather than looking for the high improbabilities..like what are the chances that could of happened, etc.? Then lowering statistics based on their own assumptions. I do believe in God and that there is a plan. I have a friend that is going to do a study with me to help strengthen my foundation. Maybe this tomb or cave..was brought into light 25 years later as it were; right after the Divinci Code as God allowed according to a greater plan. HE God may have enabled a family or ? or allowed Satan to deceive people as part of His greater plan. Sin existed prior to the earth being formed. Satan became full of Himself which God had to enable as he enabled eve to fall from perfection to selfishness. Crazy? I just think way too much. It is so hard for me to brush over and ignore statistics and facts.Add in what ever book is written on the issue? Hopefully there are> answers.. Given these stats as well as the fact Jesus was next to Mary> as if a couple and not others it looks bleak! The only evaluation is> that Jesus may not have been able to afford the tomb but what if it were> away from the others , in a cave and hidden, also factor the fact that> Jesus and not the others were not next to Mary as if married.Also the> fact that Jesus was handy and may have made the ossuraries as He was a> carpenter? Wall Maker..How does this change the slim chances of that> tomb and it's names existing?