Proposed SBC resolutions touch on Christian political engagement, Israel, parental rights

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

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Israel supporters, including Christian Evangelicals, participate in the United for Israel march outside of Columbia University on April 25, 2024, in New York City. Israel supporters are reacting to the growing number of college campuses throughout the country whose student protesters are setting up pro-Palestinian tent encampments on school grounds.
Israel supporters, including Christian Evangelicals, participate in the United for Israel march outside of Columbia University on April 25, 2024, in New York City. Israel supporters are reacting to the growing number of college campuses throughout the country whose student protesters are setting up pro-Palestinian tent encampments on school grounds. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

One resolution to be considered at the SBC Annual Meeting is centered on Israel's ongoing war to eliminate the Islamic terrorist group Hamas and its control over the Gaza Strip. 

Titled "On Justice and Peace in the Aftermath of the October 7 Attack on Israel," the resolution calls for the SBC to condemn Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, which resulted in the killing of over 1,200 people, mostly civilians in southern Israel. 

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Amid calls for a ceasefire and reports that up to 35,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the proposed resolution would "deny assertions of moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas."

"That we are appalled by anti-Israel and pro-Hamas activities on university campuses, within professional associations, and in the culture at large," continued the resolution.

"That we oppose those calling for the nation of Israel to lay down its arms, repudiating any calls for a ceasefire that do not also result in the immediate release of all hostages."

It also calls for SBC to "recognize the dignity and personhood of all people living in the Middle East and affirm God's love and offer of salvation to them through Jesus Christ, honoring the difficult ministry of Jewish and Palestinian believers who labor for the gospel as we pray for their protection and ministry."

"While no modern nation-state is above reasonable critique, Hamas unequivocally

bears responsibility for the atrocities committed and the devastating repercussions that have affected the Jewish people, Palestinians living under the tyranny of this terrorist organization, our Christian brothers and sisters in the region, and all neighboring people," the resolution states. 

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