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> In message <h18lv1+t01v_at_...> "ttrotsky2" writes:
> >Donald Oddy:
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> >> That's assuming the copies are in the original language. If not
> >> you've got mistranslations on top of that.
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> >They are in the original language; you don't translate the Abiding
> >Book. Well, there's bound to be some weird protestant-type sect
> >somewhere that does such a thing, but they're on the fringes already.
> >It's like the medieval Bible always being in Latin, or the medieval
> >Koran always being in classical Arabic. In fact, writing in the
> >vernacular *at all* is considered a pretty nutty thing to do in the
> >West.
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> The Bible wasn't originally written in Latin. .....
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.
Simon Hibbs