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Reply to "Book of Mark... Fiction?"

Lots of errors in the original post, including faults with the hero myth comparison. I'll skip all of those and just focus on the main error.

 

There is no "original book" of Mark. When dealing with ancient documents, historians have to go with the earliest manuscripts which are handwritten copies. Many times they are fragmented and incomplete, so these are used to compare with other copies to verify accuracy.

 

Mark 16:9-20 is included in many manuscripts, but left out of the two oldest ones. A few manuscripts actually have a different ending. This fact has been in dispute among Bible scholars for centuries and will always be in dispute.

 

This dispute does not discredit the entire book or automatically make it a work of fiction. To jump to that conclusion is not academic and not rational.

 

 

 


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