**That is why the Holy Spirit choose Greek for its language**
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LOL Did not the Holy Spirit inspire that book ? Is not greek the most precise language?
"the Greek language had been molded over the centuries by the categories of philosophical thought. This is what Greece is known for, and their language had well-developed truth categories that would be needed to convey the doctrines of Christianity. To read the New Testament in Greek is to realize how perfect that language is for the theological writings of apostles like Paul and John.
http://www.alliancenet.org/CC/article/0,,PTID307086_CHID559376_CIID1936488,00.html
Jesus likely spoke Aramaic (mostly in Galilee); Hebrew in Judea (where it was more widely spoken than is usually accepted); and perhaps some Greek.
Hillel (around the time of Augustus, and before), who was an Aramaic speaker, had trouble understanding his Jerusalem-born wife, who was a native Hebrew speaker.
Around 100 AD, some rabbis consulted a woman (almost unheard of) over a question about Hebrew, of which she was a native speaker—she being from Judea.
Pilate questions Jesus in Greek, but evidently rudimentary Greek which according to some, shows some Latinisms. Whether there was then an interpreter, or Jesus also knew Greek, is unknown.
Carmignac (”Birth of the Synoptics”) and Tresmontant (”The Hebrew Christ”) both present overwhelming evidence that the New Testament relied heavily on Hebrew underlying documents; or else was originally composed in that language.
All that said, it matters not a smidgen to the basic gospel, what relations Joseph and Mary had after Jesus was born. Some early writers said that Joseph had children from a first marriage; and after his first wife died, he married Mary, with whom he had no children. Thus, Jesus might have had half-brothers.
But again, nothing is changed by any of this, and we are not given any clear indication in the scripture, meaning it was not really important.
Show us any source for Hebrew or Aramaic texts older than the Greek. Show us where scholars prove the original New Testament was anything other than Greek. For that matter, show us where the Catholic Church claims the original New Testament was written in other than Greek and the proofs they use.
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It's in a book you are obviously not familiar with...The Bible...
God said he would preserve his words forever...The words that the world has as God's preserved words in the N.T. are from the Greek manuscripts extant...
If the original bible was written in Aramaic, with different words than the Greek, the bible used thru out the world would match the Aramaic words, based on God's promise...
But it don't...You lose...