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.
David:
This theological forum was not the kind of an event that had an outcome. It was not structured that way. It was a dialogue between various points of view, which were clearly aired. The discussion is between those who want Jewish believers to live in a Jewish manner in Israel (observe Sabbath, feasts, dietary laws, etc) and those who think such a move is a distraction (if not a distortion) from the message of the gospel. We know from Acts that some Jewish believers in the early generations were very Jewish in their observance. So the question is whether that option is live today. A book that makes the case for this from a Jewish practice perspective is David Stern's Messianic Judaism. Other than this meeting having been a forum for dialogue, there is the likelihood of future meetings to come on specific topics in the discussion.