Puzzle Piece Scripture
Posted on Dec 1st, 2006 | Comment on This | Read This Article »
If Jesus was fully human then He was probably quirky like the rest of us. Did he have some odd habits liking eating his peas one at a time or referring to himself in the third person? I was always confused by John 7:53-8:11. For some reason Jesus bends down and starts writing in the dirt. He does this twice in this passage, but the author sees no need to tell us what he wrote. Was he just filling time by doodling while he though up a rebuttal or did he write a zinger on the ground that helped put those guys in their place?
When researching this passage more, you’ll often find it referred to as the pericope adulterae, meaning “the passage of the adulterous woman”. This passage is an interesting one because more than likely it was not included in the original text written by John.
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I always wonder what Paul was thinking as He wrote an epistle. Was he sitting there thinking “man this is good stuff” or was he completely unaware that what he was writing would be read by billions? I’m sure that he wrote other stuff outside of what is now Scripture. I wonder if he felt any different when writing that, as opposed to his Holy Spirit-inspired letters. Perhaps a warm, tingling sensation to let him know when he was inspired. If we look at Paul’s writings we know for sure that the thirteen Pauline Epistles are not all he wrote. There are a couple of writings that were written by authors of the New Testament, but just didn’t make the cut for the Bible.
There is a certain gubernatorial candidate here in Texas that has released a commercial where he grossly misquotes a Bible verse and uses it to refer to himself as the “Good Shepherd.” Politicians misquoting the Bible is quite common so it is not too shocking, but what do we do when an Apostle misquotes the Bible?!?!?
Paul was the author of 13 books of the Bible. He probably wrote other letters to many churches, but they are not included in the canon due to an elaborate conspiracy, dating back to Constantinian Rome, which hid the fact that Jesus was married, until the secret was revealed in 2006 by Forrest Gump and Magneto. All you need to make money it seems is a statement that flies in the face of thousands of years of traditionally held beliefs. So my time has arrived………..
Alright class, open your Bibles and turn to Mark, Chapter 16. Take a look at Mark 16:8-9. In your Bible there is a footnote in between verses 8 and 9. Mine says “Some of the earliest manuscripts do not include 16:9-20″. How many times have you just read right over that and not even considered it? The end of Mark has become a disputed topic and probably the most disputed section of text in the New Testament. Some think that the gospel of Mark should end at verse 8, while others like it to end with verse 20. The question debated being, did Mark actually write these verses or were they added later? We will look at the two major sides of this debate. The first side argues that the verses were not written by Mark and were added later so they should be removed from the Bible. The second side argues that these verses were inspired by God and should remain in the New Testament. This is still an ongoing debate by people much smarter than I, so we’re just going to look at the sides and then you’re on your own.
