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Hey everyone I just had a general question that occured to me. I agree with a lot of scholars that GMark has an Adoptionist christology, i.e. Jesus is a normal man who is possessed by the spirit of christ at his baptism. This got me thinking about the scene of the spirit departing his body at the mo...

Now, I know that this involves some speculation as to motives. But it is speculation in search of a reason for the two triumvirates. I wish I could dismiss the correspondence of names (Peter, James, John // Cephas, James, John, where Cephas is only a fraction of a phoneme away from being a good bac...

Not much to add here, unfortunately, but I found a lot of interesting points in this post. There is much to be thought about, however, regarding Joe's suggestion that the ending contained something scandalous; in that case it could either have been removed deliberately or lost accidentally, with no ...

Evidence you keep asking for, is the Koine ONLY text we possess. had Israelites wrote any part of the NT we would have not only an Israelite origin of the text, but we would also have Aramaic text. There is a reason why we do not. Hey I'm currently reading Mazzaferri's "The Genre of the Book o...

There is some great discussion in this thread about an interesting topic, especially early in the postings. I do feel like it got side-tracked part way through, though. The issue with Daniel and the dates looks like an "agree to disagree" situation to me, at this point. :( This was the Ach...

@Roger Viklund thanks for that quote. It reinforces the point and presents a very good theory for why the episode was told like so in the first place. Also, I'm not sure what kind of Mark Peter Jeffrey is positing, but it sounds unconventional, to say the least. Even so, I shouldn't prejudge somethi...

@Ben wow! :wtf: I'm pretty sure I've heard mention of that show's unsettling similarities to the actual 9/11 attacks before, but I didn't realize just how close some of the parallels appear! Add to that the proximity in the time, and the conspiratorial nature of the t.v. show itself, and it seems ta...

I actually found another example in popular music of something that mirrors an issue that's often discussed when it comes to dating the gospels. I don't think it lends itself to an entire thread, but it's interesting enough to mention in the context of the above, IMHO. The song is Notorious B.I.G.'s...

@Secret Alias: Thanks for the replies. As far as the angry and emotional Jesus being characteristic of GMark, I'd never thought about it from that angle before, but I think I see what you mean. There are some points in there where he behaves more like an individual human being, instead of an all-pow...

Welp, speak of the devil (as they say :wtf: ): SecretAngryJesus2.JPG I was able to find the above later on in the book. It appears as far as Scott Brown is concerned, Jesus's anger is directed at his hard-hearted disciples. I would say that's the most natural interpretation anyway, IMO. Maybe someon...