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Mark 16:9-20 and Sola Scriptura

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  Introduction Recently, apologetics Wunderkind and genuinely nice guy Wes Huff put out a video looking at the provenance of the largest textual variant found in the New Testament, that of Mark 16:9-20 . In the video, Huff highlights the history of the text in key portions of the textual history as well as extra-textual witnesses to demonstrate the colorful history of the text. He comes to the conclusion that, based on a number of factors, it’s not original to Mark, and therefore not Scripture. Now, such a conclusion is likely to be concerning…especially if you haven't given much thought to the textual issues and their relationship to both inspiration and inerrancy, which is something that I’ve written about elsewhere but haven’t really dealt with in a while. So…why not? Where’s the Inspiration? One of the fundamental questions is, where does inspiration start and where does it end? This question is particularly perplexing because there’s an inherent recognition with even a cas...