The Affirmations of Jesus Christ A Survey from the Gospel of Mark

By Richie Cooley

This booklet examines the way Jesus Christ employed the Old Testament, in an attempt to understand the orthodox method of interpretation and teaching.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: Nov 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005415303

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The Affirmations of Jesus Christ

A Survey from the Gospel of Mark

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (2022); [some material previously published in 2019]

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Table of Contents

I. The Good Sense of Agatha

II. The Mind of Christ

III. Closing Considerations

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes that are common to my writings…

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*New Testament Scripture is normally taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament: Third Edition (ALT3). Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry. Previously copyrighted © 1999, 2001, 2005 by Gary Zeolla.

*Old Testament Scripture is normally taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

*The terms LORD, GOD, and Hashem are all ways to describe the personal name of God, also rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.

*The ALT3 distinguishes between singular and plural second-person pronouns by means of an asterisk (*).

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

I. The Good Sense of Agatha

Think you know an innocent man when you see one? It’s not as easy as that… -- Agatha Christie; from The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

Professor Lucy Worsley, in the introduction to her fascinating series on Agatha Christie, makes an important point regarding a malicious phantom that often appeared throughout the writer’s childhood. Because she was so often traumatised by this ghost (or demon, if you will), Agatha believed evil to be very ubiquitous. This seems to be the most apt way to sum up Christie’s outlook. If one point can be taken from Agatha’s massive corpus it is indeed the all-pervasiveness of evil (or, the total depravity of humanity, turning aside from supernatural considerations). There were no good people or bad people; there were merely corruptible people who only needed the blood in the water to set off their primal urges.

The infamous moors killer, Ian Brady, often said something rather close in proximity while speaking to a chronicler of his thoughts…

…Brady has told me many times that we ‘rub shoulders with active and potential serial killers’ on a regular basis without realising it… -- Dr. Chris Cowley; from Face to Face with Evil

He said it well, but he didn’t go far enough. We are all potential serial killers.

Digressing, a troubled young man (Andre Bing) recently