The End of the book of Mark?

[Steven Avery]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Was the question of NT quotations not matching the Masoretic ever fully addressed?

And I bumped up the other thread with a little response to your last post. The thread had gotten a bit sidetracked and has a lot of good info.

The author of the NT is the Holy Spirit, and can use flexibilty and “midrash” in expounding the OT words for New Testament exposition. I lean towards Jesus and the apostles using Hebrew texts. Of the NT authors, Paul and Luke and Matthew were clearly especially well learned in the Hebrew scriptures.

We use flexibility in interpretation. “Matthew 28:19 supports baptism in Jesus name” might be spoken anywhere. That is an interpretation, not a quote.

We do not have the liberty to mangle the New Testament text. As done, e.g. in the Westcott-Hort recension that is behind a couple of hundred corrupt modern version editions. 1000s of corruptions, 45 verses excised, inclding the 12 of the Mark ending. Dozens of hard errors.

Confusion as to the identity of God’s pure word has caused the lowering of the Bible and the rising of subjectivism and experientalism within pseudo-Christian circles.

As an example, I saw what happenned to my dear friends at Homestead Heritage when the plumb line of faith frazzled, and even the yahweh entity (principality) was elevated. That is one of 100 and more examples of modern version and multi-version confusion, error and heresy. Version smorgasbording and elevating the words of men over the prerplexing confusions of dozens of babble versions are among the results we see today. The pure word of God is missing and attacked, error fills the void

Those corruption versions should all be simply discarded and Christians should stand on the pure and true Reformation Bible, of which the AV stands as the apex edition.

Steven