AC> Your "faith" is nothing but an excuse to continue your charade
AC> as a Christian.
>>You obviously have much more faith than Mark, right Andy? Let's
>>see how much. Try Mark 16:18... I'll pour!
> That passage is not genuine Mark. It is not in the earliest
> relatively complete manuscripts. The style and subjects covered
> are not Markan in nature. And the Ending of which it is a part is
> only one of three major endings which were added after Mark 16.8
> in different manuscripts beginning in the 5th century. The
> other two endings don't have the content of 16.18.
> This is very poor evidence to present to a skeptic of the Bible.
> It's practically tantamount to conceding the skeptic's position.
No fundy would ever admit that the fragment is in any way suspect and,
in any event, is demonstrably effective in the HolySmoke echo.
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