2006-11-16 10:28:45 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hahaha, thanks for taking me through my 1000 points mark with this stupid, stupid question.
Isn't it strange how a large river chose to run through most major cities?
Hahaha
2006-11-16 10:32:20 · answer #1 · answered by Dirty_Idea 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Lol - the names were Hebrew first, and worshippers in the English-speaking world later named their children after them.
But people didn't name their children after the two disciples named Judas, because of the stigma - it would be like calling a child Adolf!
2006-11-16 11:27:41 · answer #2 · answered by btomkins88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this a serious question?
The names of the disciples clearly have their origins in the middle east. They are well known and well used in this country and many others, but only as a result of the popularity of Christianity. Not because they are English names (which they are not).
You don't hear of people called Judas because no Christian in their right mind would call their child after the man who betrayed Christ.
2006-11-16 10:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by spoon_bender001 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The names are English only in English translations of Sacred Scriptures. A French bible would translate the names into French, etc.
And, of course, the Bible in Latin would use Latin names for the disciples, just as a Greek Bible would translate them into Greek.
2006-11-16 10:35:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The names are English translations of the names. Like Jesus isn't pronounced in spanish like it is in English.
2006-11-16 10:32:44 · answer #5 · answered by suzie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to be kidding. All of Jesus' disciples were Jews. Even Jesus' Mother. I hope you were just trying to be funny.
2006-11-16 10:33:15 · answer #6 · answered by martha d 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus didn't choose people with English names, he chose people with Jewish names but later they were translated to English.
2006-11-16 10:31:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Since when were Bartholomew and Didymus English names?
2006-11-16 20:41:51 · answer #8 · answered by Kari 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude, seriously. it's called TRANSLATION. you read an English bible that was TRANSLATED from Latin, in turn translated from Greek, in turn translated from Hebrew. Their original names are, in fact Hebrew. Owing to the fact that the whole Jesus & Friends posse was Jewish. Jesus, by the way, was called Yeshua when he walked the earth. Jesus is taken from the Greek translation.
2006-11-16 10:34:34 · answer #9 · answered by Super G 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is JudAs and the names are not English but appear so because it was a King of England who had the Bible translated, King James.
Without Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome, and King James, you would not have had a Bible today and you would not have had Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church.
2006-11-16 10:33:41 · answer #10 · answered by mythkiller-zuba 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
` Good grief ! Do you think the Bible has been distorted to reflect its inventors? Surely God`s unalterable word has not been altered? Does the Pope know of this scandal ?
2006-11-16 10:58:32 · answer #11 · answered by ED SNOW 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋