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Originally Posted by aron
That "it's in the bible" is a conversation-killer for sure. "Hey, buddy, what are you doing with that jug of poison in your hand, ready to drink?!?"
"It's in the bible" (Mark 16:18)
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Aron makes a funny with this. And provides me with one reason I don't think the Bible is inerrant.
That's because the end of Mark is a real mess in the NT manuscripts. There's two versions of Mark in the NT manuscripts ; a short version, and a long version.
The short version cuts off at Mark 16:8, and the long versions has the crazy stuff, like drinking poison and snake handling. (And believers are dying because of it.)
https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-...iw=944&bih=487
So there's two versions of Mark in the manuscripts. And obviously there can't be two copies of the original autograph copy. So somebody messed with the autograph copy of Mark, and either added to it, or deleted from it, and we don't know who. But it's likely that a scribe didn't like Mark ending with :
"And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid."
So he added the crazy stuff.
So if God protected the scripture, as some claim, He didn't do a very good job of protecting the gospel of Mark.
And such a claim therefore impugns God ... which offends me.