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NASB | Mark 16:16 "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 16:16 "He who has believed [in Me] and has been baptized will be saved [from the penalty of God's wrath and judgment]; but he who has not believed will be condemned. |
Subject: believeth and is baptized |
Bible Note: Hello lightedsteps, Allow me to offer comment here. As Doc had mentioned, the area of which you seem to question is that of Textual Criticism. This is the science of reconstructing the original text(s) of Scripture based upon available manuscript evidence. It is a highly specialized field and not one where opinions are offered like a grain of salt. I understand where you're coming from and you're most certainly entitled to your opinion. However, are we to believe you have a better handle on textual matters- or are more qualified - than a godly learned man who has studied these? While's it's OK to question things- and we need to think critically- I wouldn't throw the proverbial "baby-out-with-the-bathwater" on this. You (almost) alone appear to support Mark 16:9-20 as canonical without question. Upon what evidence would you support your statement, "this inerrancy extends as far as the canon itself"? Do you have understanding about the Transmission of Scripture and how the NT was Canonized? There were many complexities involved. Doubts about Mark 16:9-20 are more in the realm of Textual Criticism and have little connection with Inerrancy! (See Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy- Article X) Your question "do these teachings edify the reader, or do they make the reader, question the Bible text as true or not?" has no bearing upon Canonicity or Textual Criticism. No disrespect intended, but it seems you're arguing from ignorance?:-) I would not call men like the late Bruce Metzger or F.F Bruce "false apostles" They are men, certainly fallible, and fallen like the rest of us. Yet as C.H. Spurgeon wisely commented, "It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others." F.F. Bruce was Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, England for some 20 years. Having just re-read his "The Canon of Scripture", let me share his thoughts on Mark 16: "What of the last twelve verses of Mark's Gospel (16:9-20)? These verses- the longer Marcan appendix- were not part of Mark's work. That in itself would not render them uncanonical- as we have seen, canonicity and authorship are two distinct issues- but their contents reveal their secondary nature. They seem to present, in the main, a summary of resurrection appearances recorded in the other Gospels." He goes on to conclude, "The right of these twelve verses to receive canonical recognition is doubtful". Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |