thanks but that was less helpful than the sites that contradicted each other. i asked here so that the educated could help me sort through the contradictions; just telling me no, with no information to back you up, is less than helpful. as to the idea of jesus-zeus,
this is where i first found the connection. and it's not the only place.
I guess I'm not understanding, then.
The "theory" that the New Testament was not originally written in Hebrew is about as controversial as the "theory" that the second World War was not fought in the 5th century BCE, or that Dante's
Inferno was not originally written in Chinese. It's as close to established fact as it's generally possible to get in the study of history -- and no reputable web site will tell you otherwise.
That's the key phrase. No
reputable web site. Your revelations.org.za is (ahem) not a reputable site; it took me something like ten seconds to identify it as a badly-designed religious nutcase site. If you check out a more sober site -- say,
wikipedia, you'll see that "The New Testament (Greek: Καινή Διαθήκη), sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, and sometimes also New Covenant – which is the literal translation of the
original Greek – is the name given to the final portion of the Christian Bible, written after the Old Testament." Of course, Wikipedia is hardly an authoritative source, but check these out as well.
From the offical
Greek Orthodox Church: "The Prophets and the Apostles have recorded in written form a portion of the oral teaching of the Old Testament in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as
the New Testament in Greek."
From
American Thinker: "1. What is the original language of the New Testament?
Since the question and answer is so fundamental, I have repeated them in the other parts in this series. It was written in common Greek of the first century, in a vocabulary and sentence structure that most people could understand. This is especially true of the four Gospels. Christianity is a missionary religion, so it had to use the language that everyone knew in the cities in the first century. And that language was Greek. "
Et cetera. One gets tired of typing after a while.
In fact, about the only spot you'll see the claim that the original NT was written in Hebrew is the so-called "Sacred Name Movement," which is
widely recognized as being at best erroneous and at worst totally whacked-out. The
Watchman Fellowship lists it as a cult precisely because of its bizarre (by mainstream Christian standards) and inaccurate (by scholarly standards) beliefs.
