if Mark is heretic, which heretic in particular?

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if Mark is heretic, which heretic in particular?

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Aspects of Mark that I find curious.

- Mark used the portrait of Paul persecutor (coming from 'Judaism') in need of conversion ('a Son in me') in Gal 1 in order to describe a sinner Jesus (coming from 'Nazaret') in need of baptism (adoption by Spirit).

- 'Mark' denigrates the 12 disciples, but not condemns them totally, because always offers a way of redemption, if not to 'them', to their followers his contemporaries (and readers of Mark) so to redeem themselves following the gospel of Paul.

- 'Mark' seems pessimist about the world but allows the possibility that there can be established, however, the kingdom, although only spiritually.

- 'adoptionism' in Mark: Jesus is a mere sinner man insofar he comes from Nazaret (and only from Nazaret - davidic root, therefore kata sarka - he takes the right to messianism) to John the Baptist.

- the incipit with John the Baptist as anti-marcionite link to Jewish scriptures.

Which particular potential heretical view you see in Mark?

If the Paul persecutor of Gal 1 is interpolation (see for example Vridar for evidence), then Mark is written after that Galatians is interpolated, therefore after at least the birth of another gospel.

If Mark is heretic, then I would see Mark as a heretic that, on the one hand pretends to accept catholicized letters (and Galatians with 'Paul persecutor' is a catholicized letter) and on the other, however, tries to convey a point that is anti-Petrine in essentia and therefore anti-catholic.

I know that the Valentinians were heretics who are camouflaged in the nascent Catholic Church using their scriptures through particular complicated exegesis (a kind of cherry-picking by which they took what they wanted to take from any official proto-catholic document).

Do you have in mind a best heretic candidate for the author of Mark (if a heretic author was there at all) ???
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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Re: if Mark is heretic, which heretic in particular?

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the perfect identikit of a hypothetical heretic Mark is:

- one that accepts allegorically the Jewish scriptures

- one that reveres the Creator god.

- one that hates the material world

- one that pretends to use Catholicized letters.

- one that is anti-Judaizer in line of principle.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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