After class monday I thought about what I believed about how Mark ends. I decided if I had to pick one of the five choices that it would be out of the three most popular ones. I'm not a fan of the Longer Ending because I just don't think it sounds like the rest of Mark. So that narrows it down to two. As I thought more about it I wondered, "what IF there was more?!" I thought about what was accidently lost could have been important. Only a few seconds later I decided that if there was more and it's content was important, God would have preserved it like He did the rest of the text.
It reminded me a question a girl in my youth group asked me not too long ago. She wanted to know what if there were other books that could have gone in the Bible that were lost. I told her the same answer I ended up telling myself about the end of Mark. If they belonged in the Bible they would be there.
-Aaron Abbott
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I wish I am literate in the ancient languages so that I could possibly do more detailed textual criticism to find a more definent answer about which ending is correct. I too find it hard to accept the longer ending because it is hard for me to believe Jesus would say test your Lord God. Jesus would not test God when he was in the wilderness in Matthews account. It doesn't seem the same, so I accept the book ending at verse 8, however I will always be open to more insight of which is the correct. I have never had a desire to know the answer of this, mainly because I was never taught there could be an error in my Bible.
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