Aramaic Primacy from an Unsual Source

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Christina,

What a great man, and wonderful book. Unfortunately His Eminence (God rest his soul) had this opinion:

In the first place, the original Aramaic poetry of Jesus has been irretrievably lost.

What a horrible thing to resort to believing! To even think the "words" of the Word were irretrievably lost......that they somehow needed to be reconstructed. I can only imagine what the history of Judaism would be if the original Hebrew of Moses were irretrievably lost, survived only in Egyptian translations where variants were rampant. I wonder how many sects Judaism would be splintered into over doctrinal disputes leading to ever-changing revisions of yet further translations into other languages....each sect having their own favorite translation because it supported their own doctrinal position.

Oh wait....I just described Christianity!

How could we have irretrievably lost the most important Words ever uttered in any language?