04-12-2004, 04:43 PM
Hey, don't worry about saying anything in front of me. I was explaining mostly for the benefit of others who have asked the same question in the past, or will in the future. In fact, I added this to the "F.A.Q." because there is a lot of misinformation out there on this topic.
I'd be a staunch Hebrew primacist, if Meshikha had delivered this message in that most blessed of tongues. I have nothing against it at all.
But I do have a problem with an Apostle writing a Gospel in any other language than the one Meshihka spoke.
If that were the case, we would have to come to terms with the fact that the account we have in our hands is only a record, at best once removed, from the original teaching. And that's too much for me to accept, be it Greek or Hebrew.
I'd be a staunch Hebrew primacist, if Meshikha had delivered this message in that most blessed of tongues. I have nothing against it at all.
But I do have a problem with an Apostle writing a Gospel in any other language than the one Meshihka spoke.
If that were the case, we would have to come to terms with the fact that the account we have in our hands is only a record, at best once removed, from the original teaching. And that's too much for me to accept, be it Greek or Hebrew.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan

