Latin is the language of the people who lived before catholics came.?

Question

Why do christians think Latin is their language.Latin belongs to Caesar and Augustus.Our great Caesar not christian popes have a right to speak this glorious but lost language meant for pagans a long time before cristians came.

Answer 1

Latin does not belong to Christianity, Catholicism, or Ancient Rome.

Any language (Latin, English, Cherokee, or Swahili) belongs to those living people who use it to communicate, express ideas and feelings, and say things like "Te amo!" (I love you!).

Both Christians and Pagans have spoke just about every language ever uttered. Neither group owns nor throws out a valuable tool of human ingenuity like an entire language.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Newsflash - the people were speaking Latin at the time the Church came along. It was the native language of the founding fathers, and the Catholic popes! St Peter, the first pope, was a Roman citizen at the time of Augustus who spoke Latin as his native tongue. Long after the Roman Empire died out, the Church kept the language alive. They have every right to speak the language, as they are the ones who kept it in use for over 1000 years after the empire fell. Your great Caesar is long dead, but you can thank the scribes of the Catholic Church for copying his and other works of the Classical period, thereby ensuring their survival to the modern era. Latin was no more meant for pagans than English was meant for Protestants. It was just the common language at the time.

Answer 3

It's not possible to say with any certainty when the Etruscan language died out, but Philip Freeman, in "The Survival of the Etruscan Language," in Etruscan Studies 1999 6 pages 75-84, lists the last surviving literary and epigraphical records of Etruscan. Although the Roman Emperor Claudius wrote a history of the Etruscans, we don't know that he actually knew the language. However, the epitaph for a haruspex from the reign of Augustus shows that Etruscan survived at least into the beginning of the Christian era. On the other end of the spectrum, Freeman says the earliest Etruscan inscriptions date from 700 B.C., indicating that Etruscan may have been in use as a spoken language for some time previously.

Answer 4

Latin is only the language used in the bible (and usually exclusively to Catholics, and most commonly Roman catholics) because it was the language of Rome when Christianity was declared the dominant religion. This is just to keep with traditions.

In truth, the entirety of the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek. It wouldn't have worked very well to create a new language just because a new religion came about. If that were the case, then the religion would never have a chance of spreading. The Jews had developed Hebrew over centuries so this was just the norm for them. That's why the Old Testament was in Hebrew. In Roman times (New Testament), they used Greek as it was the common language spoken throughout the empire. As said before, Christianity eventually became the official state religion, and official meant it was put in the official language; Latin.

Answer 5

Is it a statement or a question? (.?)

Christians appreciate Latin as well as anyone, but its not used in church anymore at least not in the Lutheran Church.

You sound upset that Christians have used Latin, is that true, do you have a problem with Christians?

Answer 6

Christianity built western civilization when the greco-roman era collapsed.

Answer 7

I thought Latin was a written only language, not a spoken language?

Answer 8

God is the author of language, not Caesar Augustus... as children of God, Christians may speak whatever language they please.

Answer 9

Uh huh.
And I suppose you are one of these pagans?