Originally posted by Agamoi Thytai
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The New Testament is a perfect example.
The New Testament was written in Koine. And yes, people who do not understand Greek cannot read the Greek New Testament unless it is translated in the vernacular first.
The New Testament was not written by Greeks. All of the Gospels, with the exception of Luke's, and all of the epistles, were written by Hebrews. The Hebrews had their own language, considerably older than Greek, but they chose instead to write a collection of writings now called the New Testament in Koine.
Some of the apostles of Jesus Christ had Greek names. Andreas (Andrew), Petros (Peter), Philipos (Philip), et al. The name "Jesus Christ" is itself a Hellenized name of the Hebrew name Yeshua Mashia. But we know they were not Greek.
Virtually all of Europe venerates Jesus Christ as God. And venerate his apostles as saints.
If one were to examine the New Testament at face value, there is little reason to believe it is anything but Greek. However, when one explores the books therein, and the context of the Old Testament, it is very obvious to the lettered that the apostles used Koine, the lingua franca of the time, to reach the most amount of people with the message of Christ (Christos), not because they and their Lord were Greek.
There are many Jews, till this today, who reject Christianity as a pagan Greek religion because it is so "Greek", even though it is not Greek at all.
If anything, when one considers it with more scrutiny, it is evident that Greeks and most Europeans are Israelites.
We worship the God of Israel, have Hebrew sounding names (Michael, Gabriel, et al.), practice Christian morality, and study the Hebrew Old Testament, This must make us Hebrews or so-called "Jews".
We all know from history if a people had Greek names, used Greek in writing, worshiped "Greek" gods, they could not be anything other than pure Greek. So if we apply this rule blindly, we must conclude most of Europe is so-called "Jewish".
I am being sarcastic, of course.
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