It would seem so, but I will not take up snakes, or drink poison. Maybe Rdmd1 or AMPU might be able to add some words of wisdom.
RE: It would seem so, but I will not take up snakes, or drink poison.
well, assume that the longer ending is inspired, the next question to ask is this -— does this refer to ALL believers at ALL times, or does this refer to believers at certain times and certain places?
Mark, I gave a very quick look at Dr. Thomas Constable’s Bible Commentary (one of my seminary profs) and here is what he wrote...
Mark 16:8 (TCENB): Many evangelicals believe that the present ending is the inspired one, and for reasons presently unknown to us it was not a part of existing copies of some very old manuscripts. Another evangelical view is that Mark ended his Gospel with verse 8, or his ending beyond verse 8 was lost. Someone else or others compiled an ending out of accounts of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances under divine inspiration and added them to form an appropriate ending to Mark’s Gospel. I favor the former evangelical view, though the more basic issue is the inspiration of verses 9–20. I believe these verse are divinely inspired.