> > The Bible wasn't originally written in Latin. .....
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> However because the Roman church was founded by Peter, the divinely appointed successor to Jesus, it is divinely protected from error (according to the doctrine of infalibility) and therefore it's Latin translation is even more divinely influenced and free from error than the earlier versions.
This would be a __very__ conservative right-wing view, and probably out-of-date by about 100 years or so to boot.
According to actual dogma, the Church is NOT divinely protected from error, the doctrine of _Papal_ infallibility has NOTHING to do with this, and no matter how divinely influenced the Bible authors and *particularly* translators have been, they were/are still human and therefore humanly fallible.
So much so, that the Vatican has recently _completely revised_ the official Latin Bible, in order to _correct_ some translation errors in the old Vulgate.
Julian Lord
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