Message by Larry Thacker Jr. from March 15: Can You Trust Your Bible?
I remember the first time I encountered a translation that did not include Mark 16:9-20. At the time I did not know about the controversy and immediately started asking around who had ever heard of that version and was it reliable? If we are calling the Bible the word of God, how can there be any question about what goes into it?
Challenges to the authenticity of the Bible are nothing new. Many have made a career out of them. But even believers may have questions. Why so many translations? How come they don’t always agree? How can we claim this is the inspired word of God and then say that some verses don’t belong in it? I hope that by the end of this message you will be a little more confident that what you read is the truth, or if you already have that confidence, that you will be able to share with those who do struggle. We can argue about whether Mark really wrote that ending, but we can also know that just about every work has backing from other places in scripture and so leaves no reason to doubt the rest. Don’t let Satan twist God’s word to shake your faith.
