The Self-Donation of God. Jack D. Kilcrease

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Jews to be the cosmic judge who would come at the end of time (for example in 1 Enoch 61–62, 64). As the cosmic judge, the Son of Man takes on the role held by the priests within the Levitical cult: “You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean” (Lev 10:10, also see 11:47). Because Jesus is the true advent of this figure, Mark indicates that he has the power to forgive sins on earth in the present (Mark 2:10) and will serve as the judge of humanity at the eschaton (13). Jesus makes his judgment available ahead of time to those who have received his word of forgiveness with faith.

      Mark’s glorification of Jesus in the first verses of his gospel is followed by his description of Jesus’s entry into humiliation. Jesus goes to the Jordan and is baptized with sinners, thereby identifying himself with them. Being indistinguishable from the mass of sinful humanity, Jesus’s glory is revealed when his Father testifies to it: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased” (1:11). Mark tells us that the heavens are “torn open” (schizomenous) and the Spirit in the form of a dove descends upon him. The violence of the term schizomenous seems to indicate the disruption of the normal structure of reality that had held sway in the Old Testament. God in his holiness had segregated himself from sinners in the tabernacle/temple. In the person of Jesus, he now identifies with them.


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