Does Mark support adoptionism?

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Mark 1:9-11

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

Mark 15:33-34

At noon the whole country became dark. This darkness continued until three o’clock. At three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani.” This means, “My God, my God, why have you left me alone?”

Does Mark support the Adoptionism doctrine? Was that Mark’s community’s belief? Or, perhaps, adoptionists interpreted this to start their belief?
 
Just in case someone asks why, the Baptism narrative in Mark sounds like Jesus was just a common human, then upon Baptism Jesus received the Holy Spirit. Then, upon Crucifixion, the Spirit left (abandoned) Jesus. Is that the case? Also, the first Judeo-Christian communities seem to support that idea (see Gospel of Hebrews, Shepherd of Hermas, among others).
 
Mark 1:7 And he preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Mark 1:8 I baptized you in water; But he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

So if he was adopted as you seem to believe how can he baptize you in the Holy Spirit?

According to this idea of yours we should throw out all the other gospels and the OT as well.

Think not!

Also the gospel of Mark declares: 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Not the adopted Son of God.
To be the son of someone there are specific natural elements that need to occur.

Jesus is not someone that you can define with just 1 passage out of the whole Bible, it was a heresy, declared as such and revisiting it profits nothing to us except be aware of it and why it is heresy.
 
minichibi said:
Mark 1:9-11

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

Mark 15:33-34

At noon the whole country became dark. This darkness continued until three o’clock. At three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani.” This means, “My God, my God, why have you left me alone?”

Does Mark support the Adoptionism doctrine? Was that Mark’s community’s belief? Or, perhaps, adoptionists interpreted this to start their belief?
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Valentinius used Paul. Marcion used Luke. Heracleon used John. 🤷
 
minichibi said:
Just in case someone asks why, the Baptism narrative in Mark sounds like Jesus was just a common human, then upon Baptism Jesus received the Holy Spirit. Then, upon Crucifixion, the Spirit left (abandoned) Jesus. Is that the case? Also, the first Judeo-Christian communities seem to support that idea (see Gospel of Hebrews, Shepherd of Hermas, among others).
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No that isn’t the case. Christ had the Holy Spirit when he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary because his human nature was fully united with his divine nature. Christ received the Holy Spirit in Baptism as a kind of anointing for his ministry–it’s not like he didn’t already have the Holy Spirit. In the Crucifixion I think it is referring to how his soul left his body i.e he died. He had the Holy Spirit at death.
 
minichibi said:
Mark 1:9-11

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

Mark 15:33-34

At noon the whole country became dark. This darkness continued until three o’clock. At three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani.” This means, “My God, my God, why have you left me alone?”

Does Mark support the Adoptionism doctrine? Was that Mark’s community’s belief? Or, perhaps, adoptionists interpreted this to start their belief?
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No Mark didn’t support adoptionism; the adoptionists interpreted this to start their beliefs.
 
Perhaps it is possible to read the Gospel according to Mark in an adoptionistic way–but that Gospel is not the only inspired Scripture. Certainly John cannot be so understood: The WORD became flesh, and pitched his tent among us (John 1:13). This is why (1) we do not have only one (human) author or text that is inspired, and (2) why we much not interpret the Bible against the teachings of the Church.
 
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