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To: imardmd1

Thanks for explaining. As to languages, it was God who confounded speech at the tower of Babel, remember. If he hadn’t we would have the one world globalism the leftists want a long time ago. Better diversity with its problems than one world language, one world religion, etc., the way I see it.

As to a common language in heaven, don’t know about all that. I am Historic Premillennialist, which believes this earth is the destiny of the saints (Rev. 20), not heaven...floating around on clouds, playing harps, as some artists have pictured it.


11 posted on 06/18/2013 5:54:34 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas
As to languages, it was God who confounded speech at the tower of Babel, remember.

The implicit question is, "What was that one language?"

I see no reason that it was anything different than the language which The God imparted to Adam for their precise, unambiguous exchange of information. I have every reason to believe that, for this discussion and without further qualification, that language was the pristine, original, uncorrupted Hebrew; and that it was recorded exactly as spoken, according to the command of The God to Moses.

Moreover, Jesus orally taught the Devil,"It stands written,'Not only upon bread shall mankind live, but (also?) upon every utterance issuing out of the God's mouth.'"

This is a very convincing instance of proper literal hermeneutic being applied to translate His Own Very Words, each one, from the original God-breathed Saying in Hebrew as written down, into Koine Greek--nothing added, nothing lost, and nothing changed from the original; and itself put into both Semitic and Greek records by Levi, guided exactly by the Holy Ghost.

To me, that is very, very impressive.

As to a common language in heaven, don’t know about all that.

I think you should know that. Though He is omniscient and could have rendered his thoughts clearly and exactly in any language He wished (and did) (God, Who at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke unto the fathers by the prophets), The Holy Ghost only caused His Words to be declared in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek through the mouth of His Anointed One, Jesus Lord (hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son); which was written down verbatim by Levi, Luke, Paul, John Mark, and Beloved John the Theologian, as well as doctrines imparted to his own brethren Jacob and Jude, being guided by the Spirit.

It is hard to imagine that His Will can be expressed as well or better in any other languages (with only a few borrowed words , names, and placenames) than those He chose and limited to exactly transmit His Will between the covers of The Holy Scriptures as set down and copied by human hand, for our complete instruction in this life and in the one to come.

Remember, this is an opinion, but a calculated one, based on Scripture as supported by the discermnment of other, very godly, Bible students and commentators.

14 posted on 06/19/2013 12:07:09 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Let the redeemed of The LORD say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. (Ps. 107:2))
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