If no Bible translation is perfect then do we really have Gods word?

[Archivist]

If there are mistakes then we cannot understand the message, it is garbled. The Bible is free of mistakes because every word is exactly what God intended. These words are in the form written by humans, but they are nevertheless God's word.

Then explain Mark 16:9-20, which does not appear in the oldest Greek manuscripts.

 

[Tayla]

Then explain Mark 16:9-20, which does not appear in the oldest Greek manuscripts.

This is not the kind of mistakes I'm talking about, of scribes adding things after the fact or spelling variations.

 

[Archivist]

This is not the kind of mistakes I'm talking about, of scribes adding things after the fact or spelling variations.

So which are correct, the Greek manuscripts that lacked those verses or the Greek manuscripts that include them? These aren't verses that were added by some Medieval scribes.

 

[Tayla]

So which are correct, the Greek manuscripts that lacked those verses or the Greek manuscripts that include them? These aren't verses that were added by some Medieval scribes.

These verses were not written by the Mark, original writer.

 

[Archivist]

These verses were not written by the Mark, original writer.

Yet some say that they were written by Mark, that they were from a fragment of another letter by Mark.

Are you saying that we should rely on your opinion in determining what is and is not authentic?

 

[Tayla]

Yet some say that they were written by Mark, that they were from a fragment of another letter by Mark.

Are you saying that we should rely on your opinion in determining what is and is not authentic?

I'm not the only one to claim this. I'm merely repeating what the scholars have determined.

 

[Archivist]

I'm not the only one to claim this. I'm merely repeating what the scholars have determined.

Except Biblical scholars haven't reached agreement on this issue. One source--available here: Apologetics Press--states that "the reader of the New Testament may be confidently assured that these verses [Mark 16:9-20] are original—written by the Holy Spirit through the hand of Mark as part of his original gospel account."