Does God understand every universal language? Can you pray without worrying what language your speaking?

Question

I am confused because I thought God understands all languages! But, for some religions it has to a set language like Arabic, Chinese, Greek ect...
Please help me to clarify this because I am so confused!

Answer 1

Of course God understands every language. God knows everything.

Answer 2

GOd understands every language. Men do not. So the Catholic church, for example, settled on the Latin laguage over a thousand years ago as the language in which their services would be conducted. At that time, it was the most common language in the world. By having always have the mass said in the same language, it allowed control over the content of the mass, and avoided problems that could come from translating to another language.

No tranlation between languages is ever going to be perfect. It will always introduce errors, are changes in the shades of meaning of something. Most religion want to avoid those errors.

In the Muslim religion, their sacred writings are all in Arabic. As they feel any translation to another language would alter the meaning of the writings, they are always written and recited in Arabic. Any English version of the Quran you see is not a "translation: but rather a "commentary" on the Quran in English.

Same is true of other religions and their writings, prayers, etc.

It is not because any of them believe that God does not understand all languages. Rather it is because they want to preserve the purity of their original writings, prayers, etc.

Answer 3

Religions are created by humans. Humans are the ones who decide to enforce what language other people pray in.

If you worship the monotheistic God (which I don't but that's beside the point) you know that God is believed to be omniscient, which means he knows absolutely everything, past, present, and future. So naturally, given this belief, he knows all languages and what language you pray in is immaterial, so long as you pray.

Answer 4

The only language that I know is English, and that is what I use. Since God created all, He knows every language too!

Answer 5

god knows every thing not only languages he knows everything in the world under the ground up in the sky by the way islam is the best religion god said this and god said that arabic is the best language because it is the language of the qur'an and the qur'an is the best book god sent it to us. so if ur not a moslim be a moslim god love all moslims bec. if u are going to be a moslim and do what god says to do in qur'an god will love u and do what u hope to do it.

Answer 6

Well, as a being transcending the condition of our limited world it is assumable that he does understand every possible language. The linguistic orientation of many religious groups originates from the demanding to understand without doubts the entire written (or orally transmitted) message of God or of the saints, as communicated to the prophets or the wise men of every religion. They wrote it down in their own language, trying to use a lot of sense-giving metaphors that are not available in every language. The translation of many religious texts leaves room for a lot of interpretation, and the original message risks to get lost along the way. That is, i.e., why the Christianity is so divided in our days, and why the Muslims and Hindu and others try to keep their original texts in the language they were written. As a translator, I can tell you that the fear of misinterpretation is not based on nonsense.
But beside that, it is not important in witch language you pray, as long as you can be sure that you are praying as you should (following the original rules of your holy books) and by that: praying to the God you want, and not to some creation of centuries of misunderstanding and misinterpretation.

Answer 7

In all religions there are certain customs of prayer such as ceremonies and thus which, by custom are done in a particular language. It is for the sake of the ceremony that it is done this way and also for the sake of the celebrant's worshipful obedience.

Other prayers that are not prescribed ceremonies are done in the language of the heart of the supplicant and, if sincere are always beautiful.

Peace and Blessings,

Imam Salim

Answer 8

Telepathy IS the universal language that all beings share, regardless of the words that are physically spoken. Without telepathy, all the physical languages would be meaningless. Telepathy even transcends time as the future speaks to the past. In other words, beneath your normal waking consciousness there is a never ending conversation going on in which everyones innermost thoughts are broadcast and you can learn to tune into this. If this is true for us, how much more so for God.

Answer 9

The God of the Bible, knows every language there is today and all that was in the past.

He even knows all of thoughts.
You do not need to speak in a certain language or in any one style. Speak to Him what is on your mind and heart.

Answer 10

God's language is love... Language or words are just representation of something greater... God understands through our emotions and feelings since regardless of the language. emotions, particularly love, are universal and immaterial in nature, thus it is the same for every person in the entire world..

So when you are praying, God is not listening to the words your saying but rather more importantly to the feelings or intentions that these words represent...