Problems with Mark (Part 1)

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This is Part One of our series on the Gospel of Mark — and we’re going straight to the texts themselves. Why do Jews reject the Gospel of Mark? Not because they’re stubborn. Not because they’re spiritually blind. But because when Mark is read as a Jewish text — in its original scriptural, theological, and covenantal context — it repeatedly breaks Jewish law, Jewish expectation, and Jewish theology. We’re going to look at the passages. We’ll examine Mark’s opening citation of Isaiah. We’ll look at the moment Jesus declares sins forgiven. We’ll examine the declaration that all foods are clean. And we’re going to ask a historical question — not a devotional one: Is Mark preserving Jewish scripture… or repurposing it? Because when you read Mark carefully, something startling emerges: The Jesus of Mark often makes perfect sense in a Greco-Roman religious world — but becomes deeply problematic inside a Jewish one. This isn’t anti-Christian rhetoric. This is historical analysis. #GospelOfMark #JewishChristianDebate #HistoricalJesus #BiblicalScholarship #Torah #SecondTempleJudaism #GrecoRomanWorld #BibleAnalysis #ChristianOrigins #InterfaithDialogue

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