Gospel of Mark calls Jesus God in every chapter

I'm going to go with your assumption that the gospel of Mark is the earliest gospel I'm fine with that for argument's sake but you mentioned that you did not think that Jesus was portrayed as Divine in Mark's gospel and that's where I think you're fundamentally incorrect In fact I would argue that Mark's gospel portrays a more Divine Jesus than even John's gospel which you said is the like development to the later gospels where Jesus is really human early on and then he becomes this Divine figure I'm going to prove you wrong by going uh chapter

by chapter through the Book of Mark okay so Mark chapter 1 John the Baptist makes straight the path for who it's Jesus right in mark 1:3 it says as it was written in Isaiah the prophet behold I send my messenger before your face who will prepare your way a voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord make his path straight if you go back to what he's quoting it's Isaiah 40:3 it says a voice of one calling prepare the way for Yahweh in the wilderness make a straight highway for your

God in the desert now when you hear Mark setting that up and saying that Isaiah the prophet says you know behold I send a messenger before your face you're expecting Jesus to prepare the way for Yahweh but that's not what he says is happening it's John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus who is he saying Jesus is if he's quoting Isaiah chapter 40:3 where a way is prepared for Yahweh but John the Baptist is preparing a way for Jesus he's saying that Jesus is Yahweh Mark chapter 2 no one can forgive sins and yet

that's exactly what we see Jesus doing in uh Mark chap 2:7 Jesus's detractors see him uh heal someone and say your sins are forgiven they say why do you you talk like that this is blasphemy who can forgive sins but God alone and Jesus what does he do does he correct them say no no I'm not God I'm doing this by the power of God no he he doubles down he says no it's easier for me to say your sins are forgiven he's claiming to have that Divine prerogative Mark chapter 3 Jesus casts out demons

by his own power chapter 3: 27 no one can enter a strong man's house without him first time him up then he plunders the strong man's house he's talking about having authority to do this to Satan they're accusing him of casting Satan out by Satan he's saying no I have the power to both tie Satan up and plunder his house that is a prerogative that only God has in Mark chapter 4 Jesus calms the storm in verse 38 of chapter 4 it says and Jesus awoke and he rebuked the wind and said to the Sea

peace be still and the wind ceased and there was great calm and they were filled with great fear and said to one another who then is this that even the wind and the Sea obey him if you go to Psalm 107: 28 and 29 it says that when people cry out to God in the midst of the storm it's Yahweh who calms the storm to a whisper and the waves become quiet Mark 5: 35-43 you have the story of Jesus raising Gus's daughter from the dead if you go back and look at instances where prophets

raised the dead in the old test you have examples like Elijah raising the Widow's son in 1 King 17 but it's done by crying out to Yahweh to restore life because Yahweh has the ability to give life and take away life but when Jesus raises gyrus his daughter from the dead he merely tells her to get up why because he is the one that holds that authority of life and death Mark chapter 6 Jesus walks on water uh chapter 6 ver 48 he came to them walking on the sea now what's interesting about that is

that there's a parallel in the Greek with the Greek translation of job and job 9:8 it says that it is God alone who stretches out the heavens and does what walks on the waves of the sea you have an interesting parallel there in the Greek Mark chapter 7 Jesus heals the deaf and the mute in uh 7: 31-47 you have Jesus healing a number of physically disabled people among them the deaf the mute the blind Exodus 4: 11 when Yahweh is talking to Moses through the burning bush he says who has made man's mouth who

makes him mute or deaf or seeing or blind is it not I is it not Yahweh now Jesus is doing that and then I would argue that he then speaks to Moses in the past through the burning bush and declares his ability to do that and then we see an example of that in uh Jesus's Earthly Ministry in Mark chapter 7 Mark chapter 8 we have the story of the feeding of the 5000 in uh verses 1 to 10 we see what is essentially a repeat of Exodus 6 16 where God's people are in the

wilderness and they are without food and they're hungry and Yahweh provides for God's people in Exodus chapter 8 supernaturally for the people in order that they may be full it's Yahweh who is able to call down bread from heaven in Exodus it is Jesus who does it in Mark uh chapter 9 then you have the Transfiguration chapter 9: 2:5 Jesus Takes Peter James and John up on a mountain and then he appears in a blinding white and Mark says that the is whiter than any launderer would ever be able to bleach and who is Jesus

seen on the mountain with it's Moses and Elijah now there are only two people in the Hebrew scriptures who climb up on a mountain to commune with God Moses in Exodus 24 and Elijah in First Kings 19 what if when Moses and Elijah walked up on Mount horb time collapsed and when it says that they talked with Yahweh they were actually talking with Jesus there are only two people climb up on a mountain to talk to God those happen to be the two people who climb up on a mountain and talk with Jesus in Mark

9 in the Transfiguration now I could go on chapter by chapter but what this all does is it culminates at Mark 14 with Jesus and his trial at Jesus's trial they ask in Mark 14:61 are you the Christ the son of the blessed one and Jesus replies I am and you will see the son of man sitting at the right hand of power coming from the Clouds Of Heaven he's quoting Daniel chapter 7: 13 to 14 where it says the Divine son of man who rides on the clouds of heaven and is given Dominion glory

and kingship over all the nations and it says that this reign of the son of man will last for an everlasting period of time it will never pass away and the high priest understands exactly what Jesus is saying it says that the high priest then tears his robes and says why do we need any more witnesses we've heard the blasphemy when Jesus calls himself the son of man in quotes Daniel CH 7 about himself he's putting the exclamation mark on this whole Ministry there's no ambiguity about it their verdict is blasphemy because Jesus is doing

that he's claiming to be God he's already proven through Mark that he not only has the audacity to claim to be God but he has the Divine prerogative to do the things only God is able to do it's not just a claim Jesus is Yahweh in every chapter of the Gospel of Mark