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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.
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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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"basicallyblues" writes:

>> I asked for Steve to provide a definition
>>of the trinity in 25 words or less.
>>And that was a bad idea.
>
>If you can't define the trinity in 25 words or less you don't even know
>the trinity. The Nicene Council could do it..why can't you or Steve?
>You are afraid to post it here because it will be easily shown that the
>"church fathers" did not teach it. IGNATIUS SAID JESUS WAS CREATED...is
>that part of your trinity?

The Nicene Creed sets out barriers agaainst heresy - that is, our
belief must lie within the "foul lines" (so to speak). Defining
God is impossible.

That said, you again demand the Nicene Creed full