09-01-2004, 01:01 AM
Quote:The vast majority of the church?The Calvinistic belief in God preserving his word coincides with the belief that he will intervene on large scales in order to do so. The issue then is not whether or not the Peshitta had a time of prominance, but rather that in the end the Western traditions dominated. This goes into both linguistic and theolgical issues, but I don't think that God would preserve his word through a medium that would lose it's influence in any age. If the bible was written in Aramaic, it would have been preserved in Aramaic, and translated from Aramaic; in every generation.
Well I actually see that as circular reasoning.

