Disputed Passages

Again, when it comes to ancient texts, older does not mean better or more reliable. This is a fact that every scholar of NT Greek understands.

Yet it does not support it, that is the issue.

Has the passage about the woman caught in adultery been brought up yet (John 7:53-8:11)?

I see........other scripture shows us that God will protect a believer from poison introduced into the body through a snake bite but does not show us that he will do that if the poison is introduced into the body through the stomach, therefore the long Mark ending is fake.

Noted.

Incredible coincidence! Almost an hour ago I was relating a story to one of my co-workers about my crazy party days. I woke up with a terrible thirst after the previous nights activities. We had a dark brown Ice-tea container that we had used for yrs, so you couldn't see through it. It was left out on the kitchen counter, and like the slob I was, I picked it up to chug right out of it.

Now my mom would periodically pour bleach, and let it sit in it to sterilize because of slobs like me! I don't know if she diluted it, or by how much, but as soon as I chugged it I thought "Oh my God! That's it! I'm dead!". I can't describe how awful it was and how it took my breath away for a minute or so.

After that minute, and I really don't know how long it was, I discovered there were no ill effects from it! I am certain now thinking about it, that was yet another in a ridiculously long number of times, that it MUST have been the Lord protecting me from many insanely stupid acts I have done. I'm pretty certain I wasn't a true, born again Christian back then, but the Lord knew that one day I'd be His child! Praise His Holy Holy Name!!

This is a subject that fascinates me. These are ones on the tip of my tongue at the moment.

Zechariah 14:5 - IMO indisputably correct in bibles translated from the Septuagint (LXX) rendering of this verse and not in those translated from the Masoretic Text (MT). Search interwebs for azal + yasul + zechariah for proof.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 - enough evidence exists that these verses are an interpolation to make a dogmatic interpretation untenable and unwise.

2 Corinthians 5:21 - IMO the correct translation of the second occurrence in this verse is sin offering, and not sin (which it is translated as in 95% bibles).

I see........other scripture shows us that God will protect a believer from poison introduced into the body through a snake bite but does not show us that he will do that if the poison is introduced into the body through the stomach, therefore the long Mark ending is fake.

Noted.

In addition to the last passages in Mark 16:9-20, don't forget the disputed passage in 1 John 5:7;

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

I was in a bad car accident when I was 17 and was unhurt. After the accident I grabbed my tool box out from behind the front seat. It had gotten crumpled on top because the impact broke the front seat off of it's mounts and had landed on it.

As I was standing there on the side of the road collecting myself from what just happened I looked down and saw a bright spot of fresh blood on the top of the tool box. I have no idea where it came from because me and my buddy had no cuts or abrasions. After not thinking about it for a few years I eventually got saved a few years later and God impressed on me that it signified his blood shed for me and that he had protected me that night from either very serious injury or death. The car should have went up in a fiery ball of flames but it didn't. And we had no injuries even though we were not wearing our seat belts (can't remember if '67 Ramblers had belts anyway, lol).

what about John 8:1-11 ((the woman caught in adultery)) ?

as much as the image of Him writing in the dust captivates me, the account does have some puzzling implications under scrutiny, and i'm aware that there is a significant argument for it being a later addition . . ?

Well intentioned, but ignorant.

2 Corinthians 5:21 reads as follows in the Greek
τὸν μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν, ἵνα ἡμεῖς γενώμεθα δικαιοσύνη Θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ.
There is no variance in this verse in any of the MSS I have with the exception of the Byzantine text which reads Tὸν γὰρ μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν...
Now, the implication by Paul may well be to the sin offering but to assume this would be interpretation on our part.

See post #22.

Please help me then, and show me the error in my proclamation. I am open-minded, and would love to know how to fix this error.