Featured Is all of Mark inspired by God?

Oh? Just because some were prophets does not mean teachers cannot also be inspired. Of course prophesy requires inspiration of God,. Only He knows the future. All bible prophesy is right from God, of course. All the lessons from all the stories about people are also from God and are for our admonition and benefit to learn from! They are also inspired. The Scripture was inspired. God said greater works than what were seen will we also do. So that involves inspiration also. The gifts and calling of God involve inspiration also! The inspiration and moving of God has not stopped and is not limited to those who He inspired to get the record to us in written form. God breathes a lot. He breathed on Adam.

Relating this to the topic, I see no problem in Mark having written the ending for his inspired book later in life. That would not make it any less or more inspired.

 

OK, so you seem to be accepting all of Mark.

 

False. Inspiration is something we can have. Scripture is His word to man, yes of course. But that does not mean teachers are not inspired also. It goes hand in hand. Teachers will teach according to inspired Scripture. Healers will heal, all inspired by God and according to inspired Scripture.People given the gift of discernment will be inspired by God to have discernment. God inspires faith. The folks God inspired to prophesy were inspired. The lessons in the bible as Paul said were for our benefit. Claiming that is 'nowhere in the bible' is ridiculous. God did say greater works will we do than He did even here on earth. Do you think that involves no inspiration from God?

 

When they had to cast out demons it was very deliberate! When it says they shall pick up serpents, it does not say 'pick them up people'. It indicates that if people, like Paul did, pick up serpents, God can heal them. When it says people will speak in new languages, we saw that with Peter. That is exactly what God had him do.

The spirit of the text does not say to run around looking for serpents.

No one mentioned snake handling. Paul was not a snake handler. Yet when he picked up a serpent with the firewood (or whatever it was) he was healed by God. That was s sign to the islanders that Paul was from God.

Utter speculation.

No they do not. They cannot lift out one verse ignoring the rest of the bible.

 

No I do not. The bible is unique. Inspiration was never limited to a few people that He used to write the bible. They were inspired to write. Others are inspired to do other things. The bible is not the only inspiration we have. It is the authority, the word of God. No real inspiration anyone has will ever defy that. Those inspired by God will compliment it and work hand in hand with it.

 

No. Inspiration is still available from God. That does not take away from the inspired word of God. What seems to take away from the inspiration of the bible is people saying we should toss out certain parts of it as uninspired.

 

No.

 

No. The book deptartment is finished. The bible is the book from God. If anyone writes a book that is inspired today, it must be in agreement with the bible. I find it difficult to think that the bible is mistaken. Mark is an example of how some people think it is mistaken. Should we consider that the people compiling the inspired books somehow mistakenly (or fraudulently) included the last part of Mark? Why would God not oversee that aspect of the bible also?

 

I think you are being sarcastic?

 

Says who? We all have a measure of the spirit when saved, no? If we are inspired to write a song, or a poem, or a book, how would that not be inspiration? Even demons inspire some people in their music. Is there no hymn you feel is fairly inspired? Of course any inspiration from God would never oppose the bible. Nor would it overrule the bible.