Larry Fry
As a preachers kid I read a lot of my
Wednesday, June 05, 2019, 19:46

father's books and course notes when he went to Seminary to become an Episcopal Priest. I found out that many of our translations were done in the middle ages by scholars with an agenda (much like our politicians today) and the translations went from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to French etc. etc. so the actual words used by Christ in his teaching of the Lords Prayer may have been totally mistranslated. The article I read said that the Pope was changing the wording to more closely follow the teaching of Christ that God would not tempt us but allow us to make our own decisions when tempted by the devil. I think that this change is an attempt to more closely follow the idea that God does not tempt us but the devil does and that we have free choice. I know that there is a tremendous library in the Vatican that contains writings that are supposed to go back to pre Christian times including the Dead Sea Scrolls (films of the actual documents which are in Israel I believe). No one knows for certain as the Vatican will not confirm or deny the existence of such a library. If it does indeed exist then perhaps someone has found a better translation of the original Armenian? In any case, I don't think I would lose sleep over it. God knows what is in your heart when you pray.