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Old 12-01-2011, 08:30 AM   #91
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gMark, WITHOUT the 12 additional verses, was written to FULFILL presumed prophecy in Hebrew Scripture and to explain the Calamities of Jews when the Jewish Temple Fell c 70 CE.'
The opening words are:

'Beginning the gospel about Jesus Christ'

'Gospel' means 'good message', like euphony. Not 'calamities', like cacophony. 'Good news' is mentioned twice more, soon after. It's a book about good news for all, and it's not about the private affairs of the Jews. The fall of the Temple can be taken to signify the end of the old, pre-figurative system of obtaining 'forgiveness' by animal sacrifice; not punishment for Jews.

'"I baptise you with water, but he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit."'

That seems to promise a new start, fulfilment of Israel's purpose, not disaster....
Jesus BAPTIZED No-one in the Holy Spirit. From the very start, Jesus was a DISASTER. After John the Baptist died in the Gospels, Jesus did NOT fulfill the supposed prophecy of the FORE-RUNNER John the Baptist.


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"Your sins are forgiven."' Mk 2:5..

Now what does that have to do with the Temple falling? Surely, here is what it is really about; the thin red line, as the whole Christian project- penal substitutionary atonement- from Abram onwards.......
Mark 4 clearly tell us that Jesus did NOT want the Jesus to be converted.

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11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest AT ANY TIME they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Jesus in gMark did NOT WANT the Jews to be converted at ANY TIME

Jesus in gMark did NOT want the Jews to be forgiven of their Sins at ANY TIME

Jesus in gMark did NOT want the Jews or ANYONE to know he was the Messiah .

Jesus in gMark did NOT claim he came to ABOLISH the Laws of Jews for remission of Sins at ANY TIME

It is Documented.

gMark's Jesus, the EARLIEST gMark, had ZERO to do with SALVATION of the Jews.

gMark's Jesus story is about a character who was REJECTED by the Jews and his OWN disciples and later Crucified AFTER he FED thousands of hungry Jews, delivered many from Evil Spirits and Healed many of incurable diseases, even raising some from the dead.

The Salvation and post-resurrection story are LATER additions to gMark.
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Jesus BAPTIZED No-one in the Holy Spirit.
The change of character of the disciples at Pentecost would appear to put that assertion in doubt.

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Mark 4 clearly tell us that Jesus did NOT want the Jesus to be converted.

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11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God
He was addressing Jews, of course.

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Then we can see supporting texts. Where, though?

Mark had a point to make. He started by talking about the good news of Jesus. When Jesus told people to keep quiet about him (because he wanted them to come to their own conclusions about him), they invariably went off and noisily made him known, as Mark reported. Yet, when he had finally proved everything he had claimed by rising from the dead, those who initially discovered it were at first too afraid to tell anyone. It may sound like a joke, but it isn't one.

So people got excited about things that mattered less, but, even though they had advanced notice, they were taken aback by the thought of a risen Jesus, with all the radical consequences for living their own lives that this implied.

Nothing has changed, it may be said. The contrast is not in the least a demise of Jesus and his purpose. Rather, it is in the reaction of frail humanity to the good news, that is so often regarded as bad news. This underlines the enormous, to say the least of it, influence of the cross of Christ on the world ever since.
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From the very start, Jesus was a DISASTER.
Only drowning men could see him ! ...(Leonard Cohen)

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Mark 16:9-20 was added. Without that addition, the women ran away and did not tell anyone that Jesus had risen, because they were afraid, so no one knew that Jesus had risen. The early Christians who doctored the text wanted to claim that Jesus had appeared to others, and told his followers to go preach the gospel.
Why, then, was this book written?
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The issue is Source. The question is what was the source of the claim that Jesus was resurrected. "Mark's" answer is that "Mark's" Gospel is the answer, Revelation. This is the same source as the only known significant Christian author before "Mark", Paul. By forging 16:9-20 the answer is changed to historical witness.

By the Way, the commercial success of Christianity was never based on Christians willingness to be killed for the cross. It was always based on their willingness to kill for the cross (an irony that I think the author of "Mark" would really appreciate). Jesus' original supposed country never went schmad and every other country that Jesus supposedly visited deconverted in Mass when threatened.



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Jesus BAPTIZED No-one in the Holy Spirit.
The change of character of the disciples at Pentecost would appear to put that assertion in doubt...
Jesus baptized NO-ONE in the Holy Ghost in the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus gMark which was supposed to be the PRECISE reason for the coming of Jesus.

The Mighty One, according to John the Baptist, would NOT baptize in water but INCREDIBLY even in the FORGERIES or interpolation, the NON-historical Jesus, the resurrected Fiction Jesus, told the disciples to BAPTIZE.

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15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned....
In gMark, The Mighty One did NOT baptize with the Holy Ghost and CONTRARY to the prophecy of John turned around and asked his disciples to Baptize after both he Jesus and John were ALREADY dead.

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....Mark had a point to make. He started by talking about the good news of Jesus. When Jesus told people to keep quiet about him (because he wanted them to come to their own conclusions about him), they invariably went off and noisily made him known, as Mark reported. Yet, when he had finally proved everything he had claimed by rising from the dead, those who initially discovered it were at first too afraid to tell anyone. It may sound like a joke, but it isn't one.

So people got excited about things that mattered less, but, even though they had advanced notice, they were taken aback by the thought of a risen Jesus, with all the radical consequences for living their own lives that this implied.

Nothing has changed, it may be said. The contrast is not in the least a demise of Jesus and his purpose. Rather, it is in the reaction of frail humanity to the good news, that is so often regarded as bad news. This underlines the enormous, to say the least of it, influence of the cross of Christ on the world ever since.
You have ZERO source for your claims.

The very gMark will EXPOSE your error.

The people called Jesus John the Baptist, or One of the Prophets, Not Christ.

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27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
In gMark, Jesus was NOT known as a SAVIOR or a MESSIAH by the Jews.
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