Question for protestants

[Caesario]

[WolfVanZandt]

It is not necessarily so that Peter didn't understand Greek. Several of the disciples (including Peter) came from the area called the Decopolis which had a lot of Greek speakng peope. A businessman (and fishers were businessmen) would have learned how to speak the local languages. If Jesus wanted to make a point in Greek that He could not make in Aramaic, I'm sure he could have.

[CoinOperatedChristian]

[Pizza Man]

[CoinOperatedChristian]

[WolfVanZandt]

Pizza Man, again, though I can see why you would like to ignore it, there is no reason to assume that either Jesus or Peter did not know and occasionally use Greek and, given the neat turn of speech provided here by the Greek and Jesus' evident enjoyment of plays on words, I can't imagine why anyone would assume that the original was in Aramaic which was then translated into Greek.

[Caesario]

[CoinOperatedChristian]

[WolfVanZandt]

[Stanley Anderson]

[napalm dog]

The ripping of the curtain in the Temple following the death of Jesus is symbolic of the removal of the barrier that had formerly existed between common people and God which till that time could only be bridged by priests of God. With the coming of Jesus all people were granted a "direct line" to God through the Holy Spirit, hence there was no more need for intercession.

Not sure about the history of this argument. Its just something I picked up after 16 years of being raised Baptist.

Anyway, please visit my new post about the World Unification church

http://cslewis.drzeus.net/forums/viewto ... &highlight

[WolfVanZandt]

Actually, Stanley, I strongly suggest that any Protestant thoroughly study Roman Catholicism (and Orthodoxy, and even other religions) simply to really understand (instead of holding to all the myths many (most?) Protestants have about the Catholic churc - and the protestant); but after reading the "fathers", and history, and commentaries by noted Catholics, and etc., I can't imagine me ever being tempted to being "sucked in".

[Caesario]

[CoinOperatedChristian]

[Pizza Man]