Week 12 Podcast: Mark 14-16
Jay, Jimmy, and Travis Bruno discuss the arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. They also discuss the issues of the multiple endings of Mark and a bit about New Testament manuscripts.
Jay, Jimmy, and Travis Bruno discuss the arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. They also discuss the issues of the multiple endings of Mark and a bit about New Testament manuscripts.
I appreciated the discussion on the manuscripts and how we got the Bible we have today and answered that argument that some people jump to about how things have been removed or left out of the scriptures that shouldn’t have been with the idea of there being some kind of “conspiracy” or “secrecy” in the church.
However I did want to clarify because it felt like you made light of the fact that the scriptures were in Latin when it wasn’t the language of the people and that there was no maliciousness involved at the time in keeping it that way. And that probably wasn’t what you intended at all, I just wanted to point out that people like John Wyclif, William Tyndale and so many others gave their lives so that we could have God’s word in our own language. I think it gives a person a greater appreciation of our scriptures when you know how many died at the hands of those in authority in order to make them available to us.
Sara…Thanks for the comment and for listening! It means a lot.
For sure there have been periods where there have been pushes to get the scripture into the hands and language of the people when it was obscured by authorities for a variety of reasons. And, some in that process have been labeled heretics and, like Tyndale and others, have even given their lives. However, the notions that somehow our modern Bibles have a deceitful or malicious element behind them is false and highly problematic.