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Matthew Johnson wrote:
> it is precisely those witness who can most be trusted, because by their
> own lives they show the power of God to transform a man's life, [...]

I was also interested in seeing an answer to the question, but I
didn't ask because Entropy aleady had.

Thanks for the reply and links.


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You're on the right track in contrast to many prevailing scholarly opinions
that place the writings of the gospels after the time of the apostles.

For more on this, please see
http://sunrise-publications.com/

Paul R. Finch


"gilgames" wrote in message
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> <<
> There are several reasons for Christendom's reluctance to admit that at
> least some, if not all of the "NT" was originally written in Hebrew. As
> the original Hebrew Christians died off, the church became more Greek
> than Hebrew. Gradually, the love that Christ taught was abandoned in
> favor of a rabid hatred of Jews, and all things Hebrew. Jews wrote
> God's Name in Hebrew, even in the LXX, and it wasn't Iesous/Yehoshua, so
> that Name had to go.
> >>
>
> Just as an addendum, a Jew, Franz Werfel (Barbara, better knows for the
> Forty Days of Musa Dagh and Harken the Word, the story of Jeremiah)
> wrote that the name Jehosua is the tertagrammaton with an 's' (cross in
> the cursive) at the middle.
>
> IMHO the original Matthew (the logia = oracles) was written in Hebrew in
> 36 AD when according to the Act of Apostles all the Apostles were
> whipped, (Act 5:40) and had to flee (Act 8:1). Matthew remembered
> Jeremiah who went home and God commanded him (Jer. 30.2) to write down
> the Words He told through Jeremiah. Matthew did the same: wanted to
> write Bible, wrote down Gods word through Jesus. This Logia could be
> around 600 verses.
>
> The rest of the Gospels including the final Matthew are Greek simply due
> to the fact that beginning of the fifties there were more gentile
> Christians than Jewish Christians. IMHO (and according to Eusebius) Mark
> was written in 43 when Peter had to flee from Herodes Agrippa, went to
> Rome and preached Jesus deed's trough Mark as his interpreter.
>
> Mark took about 200 verses from the Logia (Mk 4:1-34, 6:7-13, 7:1-23,
> 8:11-21, 9:42-10:45, 11:25-13:37), and the present Matthew used above
> that 400 verses (total 606 verses) from Mark. This compendium was
> written because it became evident that Jesus deeds especially the
> Passion and Resurrection are as much important than Jesus words.
>
>
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