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To: Solon who wrote (39916)8/2/2013 9:36:25 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (3) of 69300
 
Wow these Christians were really having a gay old time... no wonder longnshort and greg almighty are always talking about NAMBLA. It appears they're charter members...

The naked youth

The text of the naked youth is puzzling for conventional interpreters because it associates an unnamed and suggestively erotic youth very closely with Jesus. Moreover, the text only appears in Mark 14:51-53, which has led to the tradition that John Mark wrote himself into the text. Because this apologetic interpretation has been largely dismissed by scholars,it leaves open suggestions as to the identity of the young man, especially given the erotically-charged texture surrounding his brief appearance.

The Secret Gospel of Mark, fragments of which were contained in the controversial Mar Saba letter by Clement of Alexandria, has led to various interpretations concerning the views of an ancient group called the Carpocratians. The Secret Gospel of Mark states that Jesus taught the secrets of the Kingdom of God alone to a partially clothed youth during one night. Some modern commentators interpret it as a baptism,or an allegory for a non-sexual initiation into a gnostic religion.

Some see a connection between the youth of the "Secret Gospel of Mark" and the mysterious youth following Jesus during his arrest, who loses his cloak while trying to escape, mentioned in the Canonical Gospel of Mark; and the young man or angel clad only in white that Mark mentions was found in the Empty Tomb. Most scholars however see the so-called Secret Gospel as a modern hoax.

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