What language did people speak back in Christ's time,do you think?
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probably Hebraic and Aramaic
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good question...  maybe a latin language.. or swahili..\n\ni'm guessing though
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perhaps not in the way the modern Christians think. however, there were several Prophets of THE PEOPLE who talked to various tribes of THE PEOPLE talking about the same basic concepts JESUS did. such as the PEACE-BRINGER who talked to the Five Civilized Tribes and Hiawatha ( who actually existed ).
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All languages change over time.  Just try reading Shakespear or the King James Bible to get a taste of how English has changed over the last few hundred years.  New languages form when two groups of people who were in communication become isolated from each other.  The language changes, but in different ways and soon becomes two distinct dialects.\n\nToday, with international communication via the Internet bringing people into communication with each other (lack of isolation) I think we will see the opposite.  Languages that were different will come closer together again.  Words for new things, like the telephone and the computer, become common in all languages.
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cheri_da_rn: he meant carpentry!\n\nI wonder, was it before or after he got married to Mary Magdalene? You couldn't really hold it against the guy if he was already married and THEN found out that he was supposed to be the Messiah, and die on the cross, etc.
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God has made of ONE blood ALL Nations of Men\n\nActs 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation (Gen.11:8-9 below):\n\n\nI believe that when the Lord confounded the language at the Tower of Babel (Gen.11:1-9 below),  what also  accompanied the confounding of the language would have been that with the many languages that were given, the skin pigmentation and features of the people changed according to the languages given, so that when the people were scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth (Gen.11:8-9 below), the skin pigmentation/features went with them to their respective regions of the earth?\n\nGen.11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.\n\nGen.11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.\n\nGen.11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.\n\nGen.11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.\n\nGen.11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.\n\nGen.11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.\n\nGen.11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language (Gen.11:9 below), that they may not understand one another's speech.\n\nGen.11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of ALL the earth (Gen.11:9 below): and they left off to build the city.\n\nGen.11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth (Gen.11:7 above): and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of ALL the earth (Acts 17:26 above).\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament), Greek (New Testament)\nI know because I read the Bible and study it as well.
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No. \nSource 1:\n    * 1 Cor. 12:7-11, "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."\n\n    * 1 Cor. 12:29-30, "Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?"\n\nNot all speak in tongues because God doesn't give the gift to everyone.  Speaking in tongues is not THE sign of salvation, but A sign.  If anything, the fruit of the indwelling Spirit of God is listed in Gal. 5:22-23 is the sign of salvation.  \n\n    "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law" (Gal. 5:22-23).\n\nSource 2: Was there a point in time when you surrendered your life to Christ? Was there a moment of brokenness when you recognized that you are indeed ungodly and cannot become righteous by your deeds? Have you invited Jesus into your heart and made Him Lord? Has there been a change so that you are no longer living for the world, but living for Christ. Walking in obedience out of love for God is evidence of salvation. Speaking in tongues is not.
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Oh! What a hot discussion. When a girl with flawless English explains native English speakers with poor spelling that she is discriminated as Spanish speaker and all... That proves only that we are on the eaves of great ethnic calamities in quite a nearest future. By the way I’d like to remind that Jesus spoke Greek as Greek was common in Palestine at those day, Jewish was a dead language by the time. It’s always easy to start a civil war, it’s difficult to stop it – see Afghanistan!
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NO\n\nThe Bible does indicate how long the ‘gift of tongues’ would be a part of Christian experience. According to the record, this gift and the other gifts of the spirit were always conveyed to persons by the laying on of hands of the apostles of Jesus Christ or in their presence. (Acts 2:4, 14, 17; 10:44-46; 19:6; see also Acts 8:14-18.) Thus, after their death and when the individuals who in that way had received the gifts died, the miraculous gifts resulting from the operation of God’s spirit must have come to their end. Such a view agrees with the purpose of those gifts as stated at Hebrews 2:2-4.\n\nAmong those ‘speaking in tongues’ today are Pentecostals and Baptists, also Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians. Jesus said that the holy spirit would ‘guide his disciples into all the truth.’ (John 16:13) Do the members of each of these religions believe that the others who also “speak in tongues” have been guided into “all the truth”? How could that be, since they are not all in agreement? What spirit is making it possible for them to “speak in tongues”?\n\nIn the first century, when Christians ‘spoke in tongues,’ what they said had meaning to people who knew those languages. (Acts 2:4, 8) Today, is it not true that ‘speaking in tongues’ usually involves an ecstatic outburst of unintelligible sounds?\n\nIn the first century, the Bible shows, congregations were to limit the ‘speaking in tongues’ to two or three persons who might do that at any given meeting; they were to do it “each in turn,” and if there was no interpreter present they were to keep silent. (1 Cor. 14:27, 28, RS) Is that what is being done today?
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Actually you are wrong on several counts.  The Bible is mostly a Jewish book, the books in protestant Bibles came from the reformation, and you were not there with Jesus to know what books were in His old testament.  If Hebrew was a dead language (this is what leads you to this conclusion), why does the Catholic Church teach that the book of Mathew was written in Hebrew?
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Well, what a special story. You set Christianity back at least 50  years.  I can picture the Christians rolling their eyes back now. LMAO.
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i'm sorry, but the people in Jesus time were not arguing. \nAt that time everyone supposedly spoke the same language (only 1). Different peoples from all over decided to build a tower to the sky that would reach Heaven. God was displeased with that and made it so there were many languages and people could no longer understand each other and as such ceased building the tower which was called The Tower of Babel.
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Blahblah has answered you very well and I do think that is an answer from an intelligent person that knows quite a few things. However I do feel I have to add and correct some things in the answer that blahblah gave. \n\nThe people that call them selves Macedonians today were not alive 200 years ago :) but even then even though a Macedonian state did not exist and even though the language was still not codified there were people that definitely felt Macedonian and worked on the “Macedonian cause” (look into the collected documents of the UK diplomacy regarding Macedonia).\n Two questions that came to my mind as I read blahblah’s answer were: “Does he know what a dialect is?” and “Just how much does he know of Bulgarian or Macedonian language?”   \nThe grammar of both languages has distinct features both morphological and syntactic. While, the lexis of Bulgarian contains a large number of Russian borrowings infused through great Russian influence Macedonian does not have what you called Serbian loan words because in most cases those are Old Church Slavonic words (A language which is dead now but served as the origin for all three languages). \n\nSo to answer the question, there is a Macedonian nation with quite a distinct language.
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Since it's the language it was originally written in, i would say Hebrew
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it is a virtue that happened in Pentecost in which tongues of flame took over the disciples and they started to speak in different tongues....i the bible,, some people claim to do it ...still a virtue
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The best way you can find out what the bible says in "real terms" is to read it in Hebrew. That is the original language  it was written in. I find it useful when reading to have The Exhaustive concorance of the Bible near by.