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Old 04-29-2012, 05:13 AM   #11
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I disagree, and if that's the best example then I'll probably leave you to it,
So the when Mark 1:10 says that the spirit descended "eis auton" it doesn't mean that the spirit entered Jesus? You see, you quoted earlier that verse with "epi", but Mark actually has "eis".

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One can descend into a place, in English, yes, but that's not the usage we are looking at.
If you google for "descended into him" you'll find plenty of examples. I'll continue to write "descend into" unless spin agrees with you! :Cheeky:
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Helms already spotted that parallel so you are in good company. As I noted in my commentary....

Helms (1988, p32) suggests that this verse is based on Ezekiel 1:1 mediated through the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs:

The heavens shall be opened
And from the temple of glory shall come upon him sanctification
With the Father's voice...
And the glory of the Most High shall be uttered over him. (Levi 18:6).
In its present form the Testament is a Christian work and this part is unlikely to be pre-Christian:

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12 And after their punishment shall have come from the Lord, the priesthood shall fail.

13 Then shall the Lord raise up a new priest.

14 And to him all the words of the Lord shall be revealed; and he shall execute a righteous judgement upon the earth for a multitude of days.

15 And his star shall arise in heaven as of a king.

16 Lighting up the light of knowledge as the sun the day, and he shall be magnified in the world.

17 He shall shine forth as the sun on the earth, and shall remove all darkness from under heaven, and there shall be peace in all the earth.

18 The heavens shall exult in his days, and the earth shall be glad, and the clouds shall rejoice;

19 And the knowledge of the Lord shall be poured forth upon the earth, as the water of the seas;

20 And the angels of the glory of the presence of the Lord shall be glad in him.

21 The heavens shall be opened, and from the temple of glory shall come upon him sanctification, with the Father's voice as from Abraham to Isaac.

22 And the glory of the Most High shall be uttered over him, and the spirit of understanding and sanctification shall rest upon him in the water.

23 For he shall give the majesty of the Lord to His sons in truth for evermore;

24 And there shall none succeed him for all generations for ever.

25 And in his priesthood the Gentiles shall be multiplied in knowledge upon the earth, and enlightened through the grace of the Lord. In his priesthood shall sin come to an end, and the lawless shall cease to do evil.

26 And he shall open the gates of paradise, and shall remove the threatening sword against Adam, and he shall give to the saints to eat from the tree of life, and the spirit of holiness shall be on them.

27 And Beliar shall be bound by him, and he shall give power to His children to tread upon the evil spirits.

28 And the Lord shall rejoice in His children, and be well pleased in His beloved ones for ever.

29 Then shall Abraham and Isaac and Jacob exult, and I will be glad, and all the saints shall clothe themselves with joy.

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Old 04-29-2012, 07:36 AM   #13
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Probably a little tenuous, as
(a) mark doesn't mention the 30th year, that is Luke.
(b)The spirit descends on Jesus, it enters into Ezekiel (an author drawing on Ezekiel might have the spirit entering in)

Having him go to warn a rebellious people is close but it might fit any prophet not just Ezekiel
Agreed; as is confirmed by the designation 'son of man', meaning a mere human; and the Spirit might enter anyone, to speak or act for a limited time. This is quite different from the case of Jesus, who called himself 'the Son of Man' for exactly the opposite reason.

Mark mentions that the heaven was 'torn', so he surely had the earnest desire of Isaiah in mind: 'O that you would tear open the heavens and come down' (Is 64:1 NRSV). So here Mark was justifying his thesis that Jesus was the manifestation of deity, as well as recording the reason for the manifestation of deity. Here was Jesus being baptised. Note that the Spirit did not descend before his baptism, but immediately after, even as Jesus was emerging from the water. So the Spirit was not the cause of the baptism. The baptism was baptism for repentance, yet Jesus was not reckoned to have needed to repent. It was his willingness to be seen as sinful— a willingness markedly absent in the antitype Job— that led to the heavens being torn open, and the 'Son' shown to humanity. So the Spirit was already present in Jesus; it was only that the presence of the Spirit was made known, to the baptiser (who took this event as proof of Jesus being the Son of God), and to the many people who witnessed it (as Luke relates); and to Jesus himself, as Mark points out. So Jesus was shown the eventual 'reward' of the mission on which he was about to embark, one in which he was to take blame for the sins of all.
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.....This is just a superficial musing for me so far, i haven't done a comparison of Mark's Greek with the LXX, but I think it's intriguing that "in the 30th year...by the river...a vision of God occurs...the Spirit enters Ezekiel, God appears and addresses him as "son of man," tells him to warn the "rebellious" Jews as a prophet, and indicates that he will encounter "thorns."

Is there source material for Mark's baptism here, or am I crazy?
Fantastic!!! You have found what may have been perceived as prophecies that support the Jesus stories.

But, now look at the very same book of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 7
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22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease ; and their holy places shall be defiled .

25Destruction cometh ; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

26Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

27 The king shall mourn , and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled : I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD...
The "words of the Lord" in Ezekiel appear to have been peceived as predictions of the Fall of the Temple and the desolation of Jerusalem as found in the earliest gMark Jesus story.

But is the author of gMatthew that EXPOSED that virtually every event in gMark and about his own Jesus story was so that the words of the prophets may be fulfilled.

1. The John the Baptist story--Isaiah 40

2. The healing of the people--Isaiah 53.

3. The speaking in parables by Jesus--Isaiah 6

4.The triumphal entry in Jerusalem--Zechariah 9.

5. The betrayal of Jesus--Zechariah 11

6. The crucifixion of Jesus--Psalms 22

The author of gMark used the words of the Prophets to assemble his Jesus story--Not only Ezekiel.
The words of the Prophets is the "FLESH" of gMark's Jesus.

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You might want to have a closer look at Mark
Here is the relevant portion of Mark 1

kai to pneuma hOsei peristeran katabainon ep auton

and the spirit like a dove descending on him

Are you saying Mark has the spirit entering into jesus?
Yes. That is Mark's adoptionism. Jesus is possessed by the Spirit at his baptism. He goes into Capernaum "in then power of the Spirit," does his exorcisms/healings. etc. in this power, then the Spirit abandons him on the cross.
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Good point on the "30 years" thing, though. Bonehead mistake on my part. I don't know why I thought it was Mark.
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Good point on the "30 years" thing, though. Bonehead mistake on my part. I don't know why I thought it was Mark.
Bonehead or Crazy??? Did you NOT ask if you were crazy??

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Is there source material for Mark's baptism here, or am I crazy?
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Yes. That is Mark's adoptionism. Jesus is possessed by the Spirit at his baptism. He goes into Capernaum "in then power of the Spirit," does his exorcisms/healings. etc. in this power, then the Spirit abandons him on the cross.
You claim is erroneous. gMark's Jesus was some kind of Spirit or non-human being appearing in the Flesh.

If Jesus was a REAL Man and was actually Baptized then whether or not he received the Holy Spirit he still would NOT be able to WALK on water and Transfigure.

Up to today, NO known Christian who has RECEIVED the Holy Spirit can walk on water and Transfigure.

I beg of you, Please, stop your AD HOC explanations. They simply don't make sense.

The Specific Gravity [S.G.] of gMark's Jesus was FAR LESS than water and FAR LESS than the human body in order to WALK on water.

Even if we ASSUME Jesus weighed 50 lbs as adult--adoptionism still would NOT help him walk on water--Jesus had to be about in the region of a FEW OUNCES--virtually a Ghost.


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Adoptionism??? Not even the theory of evolution support the rapidity of Jesus' "Adaption"

And based on the Transfiguration--Jesus FLESH was like a LIGHT BULB--It is unheard of that Christians who recieve the Holy Spirit has ever GLOWED like Jesus.

What Adoptionism are you talking about???

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he was transfigured before them.3And his raiment became shining , exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them...
We had enough of your AD HOC stories. Why are you attempting to historicise an obvious Myth derived from known Myth Fable sources???

It is clear that the authors of the Jesus story were NOT writing history but used the Words of the Prophets like Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel, Joel, Zechariah and others to fabricate the FLESH of THEIR Jesus.

The author ofgMatthew who used virtually all of gMark did claim that ALL was done in the Jesus stories so the words of the Prophets may be fulfilled.

The Prophets spoke the WORD of God.

Jesus was the Word of God.

And the Word was God.

And God WAS MADE FLESH. See John 1.

Jesus was God in the Flesh.

Jesus was ALL WORDS.
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I disagree, and if that's the best example then I'll probably leave you to it,
So the when Mark 1:10 says that the spirit descended "eis auton" it doesn't mean that the spirit entered Jesus? You see, you quoted earlier that verse with "epi", but Mark actually has "eis".

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What manuscript/s are you looking at? And when is it/are they dated to? I looked here, which has ep.

http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineI...NTpdf/mar1.pdf

There is obviously a variant here then though there was no mention of it here.
http://www.dtl.org/alt/variants/mark.htm
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Yes. That is Mark's adoptionism. Jesus is possessed by the Spirit at his baptism. He goes into Capernaum "in then power of the Spirit," does his exorcisms/healings. etc. in this power, then the Spirit abandons him on the cross.
Why is the spirit entering into more adoptionist?
Was Ezekiel an adopted son of god too?
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