BibleQ aims to provide answers to questions and also to offer assistance where verses are ‘wrested’. However one might have though that a verse like Mark 14:62 could not be misread:
“you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Mark 14:62)
This is a new one, which appears to originate with Robert Bowman and Ed Komoszewski ‘s Putting Jesus in His Place (2007), which has gathered popularity with Trinitarians, and some notoriety with other readers as something of a factory for ever more creative new attempts to read the Trinity into the New Testament where it is so painfully lacking. This book is organized around the acronym H.A.N.D.S. – honors, attributes, names, deeds, seat – (American spelling) which Christ shares with his Father, God. Though in reality the context usually indicates that these honours, attributes, names, deeds, seat are delegated, given, appointed, not inherently shared at all. These arguments have been repackaging and enlarged in a second book with the unpleasant title; The Incarnate Christ and his Critics (2024)
The strange thing about this verse Mark 14:62 is that it so clearly contradicts the idea of God and his Son having the same throne as it literally describes Christ sitting at the right hand of God. The idea has in part occurred because Bowman and Komoszewski, like many other Trinitarians, claim that “it’s me”, “I am” is related to a claim to be God, which is doubly incorrect – see the entry on John 8:58.
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