Belacqua Wrote:They'd probably understand the words.Well, they probably won't understand the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster) completely, as it contains the hapax legomenon "ἐπιούσιον".
Belacqua Wrote:Even if we assume it's the word of God, there are parables in the NT explaining why some people won't get it.If it was a word of God, God wouldn't allow his word to get corrupt. Prophets didn't actually prophecize that the Messiah would be born by a virgin, they merely prophecized he will be born by a young woman. Yet, the New Testament states that the virgin birth was prophecized. That's the kind of thing you really wouldn't expect if the Bible was the word of an omnipotent and benevolent God: it getting corrupt by a mistranslation.
If God really had something to say to humanity, why wouldn't it magically appear in everybody's native language? They are people living in small tribes speaking only some small language who haven't even heard the God's word, much less believe it. At the very least, God could somehow make mistranslations not be a problem.
