why is it said that latin is the language of god?

Answer 1

Latin was the sacred language of the western Christian (Catholic) church until the reformation, and remained the language of scripture and worship in the Catholic church until the Second Vatican Council. The New Testament was written in Greek (though other non-canonical writings existed in Syriac, Coptic and Aramaic), which was unintelligible for most of the Christians in western part of the Roman empire except for the elite. Thus, the scriptures needed to be translated.

Several early translations exist, which are generally referred to as the Vetus Latina (old Latin bible). At the request of Pope Damasus, St. Jerome developed the Biblia Sacra Vulgata (the Vulgate), which became the authorized Latin translation of both the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew bible. Jerome's Vulgate remained the authoritative scriptural text for western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Also, Latin was the language of the liturgy throughout the Middle Ages, even when the majority of those hearing the language would not have understood it. In fact, in the eighth through twelfth centuries, most priests of small and rural parishes would likely have been unable to do much more than pronounce the words. Nevertheless there was great opposition to translating the bible into the vernacular. Of course, literacy rates were low in the Middle Ages, but it was generally believed that the unlearned, if given access to the scriptures in their native languages, were very likely to fall into error because they had not received the training to interpret scripture correctly.

It was until the early renaissance period that scholars such as Erasmus and Martin Luther began to note inaccuracies in some of Jerome's translation.

Answer 2

Because people are dumb.

Christianity spread through the Roman empire. Roman Catholic church used it for practical reasons.

Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, Aramaic are the languages of the earliest scriptures. I guess there probably are some in Latin too.

Jesus spoke Aramaic.

Answer 3

Latin was the language of the Romans. The Romans created the Church.

Answer 4

It replaced into probable as a results of fact human beings tended to contemplate the Jews as cursed (as a results of fact the killed Jesus) and that they have got been dispersed as a results of fact of that. And as area of that curse even they language and the unique Hebrew scriptures have been cursed. so as that felt that the previous testomony in Latin replaced into blessed (possibly additionally as a results of fact many already knew Latin yet did no longer understand Hebrew).

Answer 5

catholic books were originally written in that language and they say prayers in it still.

The bibles original language was Hebrew, the language of people who were slaves to those who spoke Latin.

Answer 6

Funny, I've always heard that Arabic is the language of God.

Answer 7

Because the first Bibles were in Latin, and so were the first masses.

Answer 8

God wrote with his finger the ten commandments to moses in Hebrew

Answer 9

because its the highest of french and spanish. french and spanish are linked to latin, they come from latin language. also all 3 are like the trinity duuhh

Answer 10

it is da oldest known language