and why they throw the original Bible away?
2006-06-17 00:37:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
asking the obvious: why they translated into greek in the first place??? why greek??? I guess that's why it's still all greek to christians!
2006-06-17 00:42:51 · answer #1 · answered by 【ツ】ρεαcε! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The early translators would have been among the best educated people of the day. Extreme care was taken in the translation and copying of Scripture. They did not throw the original scriptures away as you assert. You have been sadly misinformed. The early translation of the Old Testament of the Sacred Scriptures gives us proof that the text has remained virtually unchanged for millennia. Of course the New Testament was written in Greek so it had no need of translation. Very early manuscripts show that the Sacred Scriptures has been preserved with an accuracy unparalleled in ancient texts.
2006-06-17 01:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by 4thwatch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Except for the gospel of Matthew all of the New Testament was written first in Greek. Matthew is written Arabic first and then translated to Greek. The Arabic was lost. Some of the NT writers are not terribly great writers of Greek and have difficulty with the language.
Some of the later Deutercanonical writings are also only in Greek because they were written by Jews living outside of Israel where the common language was Greek.
2006-06-17 00:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? Get yourself a Greek lexicon and look the words up yourself. The Bible is more than words and if you read it, the Holy Spirit will give you knowledge. You don't get knowledge from just reading it, as one can tell by the many scholars there are interpreting it....do you think that there was a Bible during the time of Christ? Who threw what Bible away? Your question doesn't make a lot of sense, I don't understand what it is you are trying to say...
2006-06-17 00:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by yiqqahah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they werent,and then was translated a few more times from that...all men interpret things differently.as far as the book the catholic church in rome has it along with a multitude of other artifacts possibly including the books from the library in alexandria "from cleopatras time"they did burn it and they are not stupid.we as society will never know what they really have
2006-06-17 00:51:12 · answer #5 · answered by alss03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋