Question on GMark's Adoptionism vs. the Empty Tomb
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:36 am
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 moment of death on the cross, followed by the empty tomb and implied resurrection appearance in Galilee.
If the spirit of Christ left the body of Jesus as he died on the cross then why would his body disappear from the tomb later before the resurrection appearances? I know if you have the resurrected Jesus appear as a phantom then go into a docetic direction which may have been problematic for some christians, but that way seems more consistent to me with the adoptionism.
Does it make any sense for the gospel we have now to be a compromise between adoptionists and corporealists (anti-docetists), or maybe even that the empty tomb is a secondary addition to the original gospel? Being a layman I'll try to avoid assuming the mindset of turn of the millennium Christians, so I won't provide my own speculation on this but perhaps someone here more knowledgeable than I could help out.
Thanks
If the spirit of Christ left the body of Jesus as he died on the cross then why would his body disappear from the tomb later before the resurrection appearances? I know if you have the resurrected Jesus appear as a phantom then go into a docetic direction which may have been problematic for some christians, but that way seems more consistent to me with the adoptionism.
Does it make any sense for the gospel we have now to be a compromise between adoptionists and corporealists (anti-docetists), or maybe even that the empty tomb is a secondary addition to the original gospel? Being a layman I'll try to avoid assuming the mindset of turn of the millennium Christians, so I won't provide my own speculation on this but perhaps someone here more knowledgeable than I could help out.
Thanks