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Gospel of Mark Mark was the first of the surviving gospels, written by an anonymous Christian, perhaps with an eye toward a Roman audience, around AD 70. It portrays Jesus as the apocalyptic Son of God, more of an exorcist and a man of power than a teacher or a bleeding heart liberal. Jesus’ Jewish disciples are portrayed as blockheads, the beginning of the Christian narrative that the Jews didn’t understand who Jesus really was. The sequence of events during Jesus’ ministry is a creation of the evangelist. While the gospel records plenty of authentic words and deeds of Jesus, these snippets circulated individually and by word of mouth for 40 years before Mark recorded them. Mark set them in their current order, but the authentic bits are fragmentary. Matthew and later Luke base their biographies of Jesus on Mark, though they take some care to edit out Mark’s less attractive details. Scribes did a little editing on Mark itself to bring it into line. Mark is the lost gospel, as in, it has lost its purpose. When it was first written, it was totally the bomb, the only written record of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. But within 20 years, everything useful in Mark been incorporated into Matthew and Luke. The edits made to soften Mark only go so far, and there are funny bits left in, like Jesus hiding his message to prevent his audience from repenting and being saved. The stuff that’s unique to Mark is the iffy material that other evangelists left out on purpose. In addition, Matthew and Luke have material that Mark lacks, each of them including large amounts of Jesus’ teachings from the sayings gospel Q. The only interest Mark really retains is for the curious reader who wants to see what the Jesus story looked liked before Matthew and Luke got to it. See gospel, Matthew, Luke, and John.
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contents table of contents you're already looking at it introduction for the inquisitive reader biographical overview who he was and wasn't
afterlife not Jesus' concern animal sacrifice bloodless religion apocalypse did Jesus preach hellfire? baptism sin wash for Jesus and others beatitudes Jesus' words and others' words beloved disciple witness for the un-gospel bible scripture old and new bishop the unjesus body focus on the physical Buddha Jesus' close kin charity key Christian virtue and legacy of Jesus The Da Vinci Code secret (and false) messages divorce women's status dreams convenient literary device Elijah Jewish prophet with his own second coming equality ancient source of modern egalitarianism exorcist Jesus and demons failure reinterpreting Jesus as a failure faith from trust to blind belief father Jesus on titles of honor Francis of Assisi the most Christlike Christian Gandhi the 20th century's most Christly holy man Galilee Jesus' inauspicious homeland gentiles Jesus' inadvertent audience god how Jesus became god golden rule key to Jesus' success gospels competing accounts heaven from sky to spiritual home hell revenge fantasy humanism Jesus' legacy inerrant Christian treatment of scripture Thomas Jefferson ethics of Jesus Jewish guilt Christian libel John's gospel the un-gospel John the baptist, see John the washer John the washer Jesus' apocalyptic mentor Judaism libeled religion of Jesus kingdom of god what Jesus promised Lao Tzu poet of the cosmic way logos jesus as the word of god C. S. Lewis famous, flawed trilemma little drummer boy Luke beats Matthew logos Jesus as the divine word LORD Yahweh transitioning to the one god of all Luke's gospel the all-around best gospel Mark's gospel the gospel that lost its point Mary of Magdala women, visions, and sex massacre of the innocents bloodshed starts early Matthew's gospel best gospel for church reading Mormon, see Joseph Smith Moses Jewish lawgiver Muhammad a prophet who got it right mystery Orpheus and transubstantiation oppression origin of Jesus' compassion The Passion of the Christ Luke as buzzkill Paul revealer of the revealer private and public public Jesus and secret Christ relativism the secret power of the golden rule sacrifice Jesus' death and Christian sacrament Albert Schweitzer Jesus as a failure sheol dark pit of death show Jesus' deeds as put-ons slavery abolished by Jesus' efforts Joseph Smith flesh-and-blood Jesus Socrates secular Jesus son of god on close terms with the man upstairs soul, see body synoptics three gospels that agree temple center of Jewish religion trinity unifying and divisive doctrinre vision, see dreams Yahweh, see LORD Zoroaster Persian dualistic holy man
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