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To: D-fendr; Kolokotronis; kosta50; HarleyD
If God were practical and understood how languages work, perhaps [He] would not rely upon words and translations of words and translations of translations of words.

I would say that God has the power to transcend the limitations of the different languages and translations. I'm inclined to believe that God arranged it so that His message and word could be fairly translated into any language that would exist or begin across time. How else could we effectively pursue His commandment to carry His teachings, His message (forever immortalized in His Holy Scriptures), to "all nations"? Any message that can be transmitted orally can also be written down.

10,684 posted on 11/07/2007 2:14:59 PM PST by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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To: Forest Keeper; D-fendr; kosta50; HarleyD

“Any message that can be transmitted orally can also be written down.”

That doesn’t necessarily follow at all, FK. The Faith is transmitted more than orally and in written form. It is transmitted by the forms of the Liturgies, iconography, architecture, chant, even things as simple as the Sign of the Cross or prostrations. It is precisely in these ways that the Roman Church preserved The Faith as well as it did, at least until Vatican II and hopefully will restore things on a go forward basis since the moto proprio. The Liturgy of the West, the Roman Mass, has carried the Faith for well over 1500 years.


10,689 posted on 11/07/2007 2:54:18 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Forest Keeper
Any message that can be transmitted orally can also be written down.

But not all knowledge can be transmitted orally. And even not technically true. A Bach fugue can be written down but not transmitted solely by reading. The same is true of many things. Words are abstractions of things themselves, an effective means of communication, but not as effective as personal communication and instruction.

I'm inclined to believe that God arranged it so that His message and word could be fairly translated into any language that would exist or begin across time.

And I'm inclined to believe that's why He established His church - to transmit that which can be spoken and that which cannot.

10,690 posted on 11/07/2007 3:20:23 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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