683 Three New Testament Connundrums

Fake Trinity Verse, No Marcan Resurrection
& Absent Woman Taken in Adultery

The following comments were given in response to the video entitled, The Story of How a Fake Trinity Verse was Inserted into the Bible by Catholics, Why Mark's Gospel Contains No Resurrection Account & the Mysterious Origin of the Story of the Woman Caught in Adultery.

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvLBJBeMl8

Commentary

As a footnote to this accurate historical reconstruction (ignoring the speaker's silly christmas tree analogy) I should klike to add three important points:

• 1. You do not need the fake Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7-8) to establish the divinity of Christ - there are many passages that do, including the famous prologue to John's Gospel in John 1:1 (also see, Have the Original the Bible Manuscripts Been Edited?;

• 2. The fact that Mark does not mention the resurrection doesn't prove the resurrection didn't happen even if this gospel is, by consensus, the oldest written of the 4 gospels, though this is by no means absolutely certain. As I discuss on elsewhere, the original Gospel of Mark does not contain an ending but is abruptly cut off, as though the writer was suddenly interrupted. There are many possible explanations for this - Mark might have died before finishing it, he might have been interrupted by war or persecution, the end of the scroll might have become damaged...we just don't know. There are three different endings to the Gospel written by later talmidim (disciples) which are not the work of Mark. The fact of the resurrection is described in numerous places elsewhere in the New Testament so this by no means proves that Christ was not divine, as the Arians (Jehovah's Witnesses, Christaldelphians, Armstrongites and some Messianics) claim (see Ancient Connections IV: Mark, John & the Lost Agapé Feast); and

• 3. As for the absence of the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:3-11) in the earliest known MSS, this does not prove the incident did not take place, simply that none of the 4 gospel writers thought to include it, for reasons unknown. We find it accurately inserted in various places in later MSS (there are no variations or versions of the story, so there is only one known original wording) so we know it was added later but whoever added it later wasn't sure where it would fit 'best'. The most likely explanation is that it was an historical event that was known by the post-apostolic fathers who learned it from one of the apostles (most likely John who lived the longest) and that it was recorded separately, and was, since it was authentic, inserted later. I personally believe it to be authentic (also see, Have the Original Bible Manuscripts Been Edited?.

31 October 2024

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