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To: RansomOttawa; editor-surveyor; roamer_1; winodog

Since Yeshua spoke Hebrew and all of the Apostles spoke Hebrew, how is it that you and others here believe that suddenly their accounts appeared on paper in the Greek language with no possible intermediary in written Hebrew? Now there is a miracle never recorded! I’d say it ranks write up there with the writing on the wall. What you are claiming defies all logic, and indeed the opinion of most published Bible scholars.


648 posted on 03/06/2014 9:58:02 PM PST by Errant (Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)
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To: Errant
All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. (John 14:25,26)

So, yes, it WAS a miracle!

653 posted on 03/06/2014 10:13:29 PM PST by boatbums (Simul justis et peccator.)
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To: Errant
Since Yeshua spoke Hebrew and all of the Apostles spoke Hebrew,

Are you implying that Jesus and all of the Apostles spoke exclusively Hebrew?

Paul, for example, was a free-born Roman citizen of Tarsus, the capital of the province of Cilicia in Asia Minor, and as Paul himself says, no small city. We know for a fact that he spoke Greek (Acts 21:37) and Aramaic (v. 40) in addition to Hebrew.

how is it that you and others here believe that suddenly their accounts appeared on paper in the Greek language with no possible intermediary in written Hebrew

Unless you assume that Jesus and all the apostles were unilingual and writing to an exclusively Hebrew-speaking audience, then there is no mystery about the appearance of a Greek NT. Since at least two of the NT authors were educated men (Luke, a physician, and Paul, a rabbi) and it is not beyond the pale that the remainder were also bilingual or even trilingual, I reject your assumption.

Also, who said anything about "suddenly"?

What you are claiming defies all logic

Only if you assume (I don't) that your assumption is the only logical option, which clearly it isn't.

654 posted on 03/06/2014 10:17:35 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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