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Originally Posted by Praxeas
The problem is though when you say "not in the original"... we don't have the originals. We have copies. Some copies do contain Mark 16 and some do not. When it comes to some of these issues the question becomes about which copies are more reliable.
With the comma though most scholars agree it is an interpolation |
Right. And since we don't have the originals, there's no way to say, definitively, which of the copies are correct, if any, when there is a discrepancy. If most scholars agree on something, does that mean it's true? There was a time, so they say, when most "scholars" thought the Earth was flat!
Don't get me wrong. I have a lot of respect for Bible scholars and their research, and they probably are correct when there is consensus. But still. There is always going to be some doubt, isn't there? And there are many discrepancies in the texts we have today. But I suppose not many of those have a major impact on important doctrines.