And Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Greek is an inflected language hence the change in gendered words. Don't dodge the early Church Fathers, Ambrose is only 330 years separated from Christ.
[Christ] made answer: “You are Peter, and upon this rock will I build my Church. . . .” Could he not, then, strengthen the faith of the man to whom, acting on his own authority, he gave the kingdom, whom he called the rock, thereby declaring him to be the foundation of the Church. - Ambrose of Milan, 380 AD
Ambrose, Cyprian, Augustine (~200-300 years away) > rickynotricky (2000 years away)
Jesus spoke in Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew. The New Testament was written in Greek. Men wrote down the Bible as they were led by the Holy Spirit. What we have for the NT is what was delivered in the Greek. Why did God use Greek? Because it is the most specific language available. Martin Luther also went against the church and its traditions in favor or sola scriptura.
by indicating that Tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every church agree with this church, on account of its preeminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, in so far as the apostolic Tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere. - Irenaeus of Lyon, 189 AD
Augustine, Cyprian, Ambrose, Irenaeus (~200 years removed) > ricky (2000 years removed)
And Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Greek is an inflected language hence the change in gendered words. Don't dodge the early Church Fathers, Ambrose is only 330 years separated from Christ.
Ambrose, Cyprian, Augustine (~200-300 years away) > rickynotricky (2000 years away)
Jesus spoke in Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew. The New Testament was written in Greek. Men wrote down the Bible as they were led by the Holy Spirit. What we have for the NT is what was delivered in the Greek. Why did God use Greek? Because it is the most specific language available. Martin Luther also went against the church and its traditions in favor or sola scriptura.
Augustine, Cyprian, Ambrose, Irenaeus (~200 years removed) > ricky (2000 years removed)