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Besides perhaps the Greek Orthodox, what Christian denominations read the orginal Greek New Testament at their services?
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#108364. Asked by star_gazer. (Aug 29 09 8:50 PM)
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serpa
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Wouldn't Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox churches inside Greece that speak Greek use it?
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star_gazer
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Good point, although they very well could use the modern Greek language.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language
It is interesting that Jewish services use the ancient Hebrew language for most scripture reading; while, Christians do not use the ancient Greek language in their church services.
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Arpeggionist
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Israeli Christians (mostly Arabs among them) often read some of the Scriptures from the Old Testament in Hebrew, and even sometimes some of their prayers as well. (When Pope John Paul II visited Israel in 2000, he was greeted by several delegations of Christians from around the world reciting the Lord's Prayer in several languages, among them Hebrew and Greek. I remember watching the service at the Mount of the Beatitudes on television, we Israelis were interested in what the pontiff would speak about that day.)
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queproblema
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The Jews consider Hebrew to be their sacred language, whereas Christianity doesn't have one, although various branches do have their various sacred languages.
The Christian faith is rooted in the Old Testament, written almost entirely in Hebrew.
Jesus probably spoke Aramaic.
The New Testament is written in Greek because that was the literary language of the time and place.
Copy-and-paste from Wiki's article on sacred languages:
Christian rites, rituals, and ceremonies are not celebrated in one single sacred language. The Churches, which trace their origin to the Apostles, have continued to use the standard languages of the few centuries after Christ's Ascension.
These include:
* Latin in the Roman Catholic Church
* Greek in the Greek Orthodox Church and Greek Catholic Church
* Church Slavonic in several Eastern Orthodox Churches
* Ancient Georgian in the Georgian Orthodox Church
* Classical Armenian in the Armenian Apostolic Church
* Ge'ez in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church
* Coptic in Coptic Christianity
* Syriac in Syriac Christianity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_language
The article also examines the Roman Catholic's debates on the use of liturgical Latin and points out the Amish use German.
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queproblema
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Well, that was a poor, rambling answer! The simplest is,
"The Greek Catholic."
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