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1 | Was it complete? | Bible general Archive 1 | Grace and Truth | 54048 | ||
Is Mark 16:9-20 in your bible? | ||||||
2 | Was it complete? | Bible general Archive 1 | Morant61 | 54054 | ||
Greetings Grace and Truth! I know that you are aware that there is no "Bible" in the sense that there is one standard text handed down in complete form throughout the centuries. What we have are thousands of copies of the originals. These copies, while they agree 99.99 percent of the time, differ at some points. Mark 16:9-20 is one of those points. Is Mark 16:9-20 in my published translation? Yes, with footnotes indicating that it was not in the original autograph of Mark! Is it in many Greek manuscripts? Yes, but many also include information about it being added and not being in the original copies. Is it in the earliest manuscripts? No, even many of the early church fathers testify that it was not in the early greek copies. So, why is it missing in the earliest manuscripts? Why do so many copies which do contain it include notes identify it as a spurious addition? Why are there four different endings in the various copies of Mark? These questions have to be addressed my friend. You can't simply ignore them! :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | Was it complete? | Bible general Archive 1 | Grace and Truth | 54057 | ||
Let's note this point also, the scholars are not inspired, so should we trust them? And sense this long ending has been found, does it hurt the gospel cause or promote the gospel cause? It's said to be the words of Jesus, that should be a great discovery and bring joy to our hearts. God want's us to have all things that pretain to life and godlyness. Or is this something Satan wanted in the place of God's word? We know what the ending says, is it a good thing, or a bad thing? But the real question should be why did they put it in the bible? Someone throught it should be in there, though it might be debated. And sense we have it let's treat it like all other scriptures. By the way how many scholars voted on placing it in the bibles? |
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4 | Was it complete? | Bible general Archive 1 | stjones | 54375 | ||
Hi, GandT; No, the scholars are not inspired. Since it is scholars who do the translating, it follows that no version in any modern language (including 17th century English) is inspired. Furthermore, no original text of any book of the Bible remains, so there is no known copy of any book of the Bible that is inspired. So where does that leave us? It leaves us dependent upon scholars who sift through thousands of manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts trying to reconstruct what the original writers - who WERE inspired - actually recorded. Mark's inspired original manuscript probably no longer exists. Scholars over a period of centuries have agreed on most of what we find in an English translation. But there are those troublesome four alternate endings. Which, if any, reflects Mark's original inspired writing? I certainly don't know, nor am I competent to decide. Since the pros don't know, I don't know. But you know what? It doesn't bother me at all. If you point out an idea in this section that confirms what can be found elsewhere in the Gospels, it hasn't added much to my knowledge. If you point out some unique, novel idea that can't be confirmed anywhere else in the Bible, then I'd question it anyway. God knows us; the really important stuff gets repeated over and over. So I'm just not too worried about this section and don't feel at all badly about not paying a lot of attention to it. Peace and grace, Steve aka Indiana Jones |
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5 | Was it complete? | Bible general Archive 1 | Grace and Truth | 54598 | ||
You mentioned how many times something is repeated, this happen to be the end of the gospel according to Mark, the question is, does this ending agree with the other three endings? I think it does agree with the others, and the day of Pentecost sermon that Peter preached. | ||||||