Notthemama1984
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
What are your views of the ending of Mark? Do you consider inspired or an addition?
I personally am up in the air, but lean towards inspired.
I believe that God sovereignly inspired the Scriptures and see no reason why He would not keep His hand on the Scriptures and protect them from becoming corrupt. If a majority of our texts have the ending, but a few older ones do not (which we did not find until recently) then why would we believe the older ones are correct?
Overall I am finding the overall concept of textual criticism very shaky. Everything is an argument from silence or on pure speculation. Maybe I haven't dug in enough and only have a partial understanding.
Thoughts?
I personally am up in the air, but lean towards inspired.
I believe that God sovereignly inspired the Scriptures and see no reason why He would not keep His hand on the Scriptures and protect them from becoming corrupt. If a majority of our texts have the ending, but a few older ones do not (which we did not find until recently) then why would we believe the older ones are correct?
Overall I am finding the overall concept of textual criticism very shaky. Everything is an argument from silence or on pure speculation. Maybe I haven't dug in enough and only have a partial understanding.
Thoughts?