Messianic Theology
Having recently completed reading The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism by Daniel G. Hummel (2013), John McKee offers a number of critical thoughts and observations on the influence of dispensational eschatology on contemporary Messianic thought and experience.
John McKee talks about a very inconvenient subject for many Bible readers: much of the record of Holy Scripture is present to reveal the faults and mistakes of God’s people. How do we need to better approach Scripture as a warning, with various stories and accounts to be heeded by the righteous?
Torah observance is much more than just Shabbat, the festivals, and kosher. A great number of ethical and moral issues/commandments become significantly conscious to the Torah reader. Likewise, a person has to encounter a world going not only back some 3,300 years to the time of the Exodus, but multiplied millennia to the Creation of the cosmos itself. The questions and the controversies that the first five books of the Bible present to us, not just as students of God’s Word, but specifically as Messianic Believers—are quite significant. Many people do not know what to do when the social norms of the ancient period are different than those of today, and are often at a loss when reading the Torah. Not infrequently, such issues are just avoided or outright ignored in Messianic Torah study.
As we prepare to discuss increasingly more complicated issues, Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee goes through the Outreach Israel Ministries / Messianic Apologetics Statement of Faith—in an effort for each of us to gauge issues where we agree, disagree, and need to recognize the various levels of theological plurality in our faith community.
As we prepare to discuss increasingly more complicated issues, Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee goes through the Outreach Israel Ministries / Messianic Apologetics Statement of Faith—in an effort for each of us to gauge issues where we agree, disagree, and need to recognize the various levels of theological plurality in our faith community.
Today’s Messianic community generally believes in the validity of the Torah, in the post-resurrection era. But there are levels of agreement and disagreement, when it comes to how Jewish and non-Jewish Believers should keep, or not keep, the Torah. In an as-fair-and-reasonable way as possible, John McKee directs us through how we need to focus on what we agree on first—agreeing to carefully work through those areas where not all Messianic people are presently in agreement.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee was recently interviewed by Elisa Norman, a student at The King’s University working towards a Doctor of Ministry in Messianic Jewish Studies .
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses a very complicated subject matter: ranging from various bodies of extra-Biblical materials commonly employed for interpreting Scripture, to what many might consider questioning the “sufficiency of Scripture.”
Does extra-Biblical literature—ranging from Ancient Near Eastern mythology, classical Greco-Roman works, Second Temple and post-Second Temple Jewish works, and early Christians writings—have any role to play in our theology?
