The Ending of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)
The fact that some bystanders believed the apostles were babbling drunks shows how God may give a clear apologetic, yet some people will misinterpret it. Further revelation is often needed to understand a divine act.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
The way the authors of the New Testament treated their own scripture, and doubtless the way the historical Jesus did so, demonstrate that whatever they meant by the “inspiration” of scripture, it was nothing like what that has meant for fundamentalist or evangelical Christians in the modern world.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Whereas Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written during the first century, the alternative gospels were not written until the first half of the second century.
Joseph M. Holden • The Comprehensive Guide to Apologetics
Pietism supposes that, in Mark 13, Jesus was predicting his own coming at the end of time, a prediction still to be fulfilled; Weiss, Schweitzer, and their successors have thought that Jesus here predicted the imminent end of the world, and that he was proved wrong. I suggest that both traditions, the old pietist one and the more recent scholarly o
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
