(December 22, 2012 at 6:02 am)Jesus.of.Nazareth Wrote: Sir,No you haven't demonstrated it, you've theorized it. There's a big difference. Your pMark is exactly what you choose to make it, and you can cherry pick from Mark all you want in order to arrive at it. The title of this thread is "Compositional analysis of Gospel of Mark" NOT "Compositional analysis of pMark". You had your chance to choose between them when you made the thread.
I think I have demonstrated the existence of Mark vis a vis pMark. Also, there is the task of distinguishing the Jesus of history from the Christ of faith in doing Gospel and historical Jesus research. Proof-texting is academically naive.
Here is your original claim:
Quote:Note here, that contrary to the Jesus Seminar and Funk, the historical Jesus did not think in terms of a "spiritual kingdom," but rather thought in terms of a material kingdom and in this sense subscribed to the common and traditional belief.As I clearly demonstrated to you, everything Jesus talks about is consistent with the Kingdom of God being in Heaven, in the afterlife. Strictly speaking that isn't a purely "spiritual" kingdom, but it isn't of this Earth that we know either. The majority of what I gave you is all from Mark, with a few other passages that clearly show the consistency all the way to John. You have clear examples like Mark 13:13b "But the one who endures to the end will be saved." To the END. End of what? Life in this world, correct?
If you manage to get yourself unbanned, I'll be more than willing to discuss these matters with you, but it looks like your hit-and-run preaching/posting was not appreciated by the Mod's here!
