The Relentless Onslaught of Evil

I marvel everyday at the onslaught of the horrors committed by criminals against innocent people in this country and the atrocities committed everyday in the world by terrorists and evil men.

And yet as Christians we're asked to bear our cross, fight the good fight and endure to the end.

We enjoy freedom in the US and we're fighting for the survival of freedom throughout the world, because in fighting to preserve the freedom of others we're insuring the blessings of God upon our own nation.

In one of his works, Winston Churchill wrote that the truth is so precious that it must be escorted by lies.

One of the biggest lies told about the Bible is that it was originated in Greek, and the people who make this claim don't know much Greek, so it's not a matter of pride in knowing another language or anything like that. It's a lie sustained only by prejudice. It's the Jewishness of Jesus that most Western Christians can't live with. And yet we should ask ourselves, why did God come to the world in the flesh as a Jewish man? I believe it's a most significant question and the answer is paradoxical: Jesus came as a Jewish man because faith in God isn't supposed to be an easy matter in this world and he knew that the world would be jealous of the nation that ushered him. The Jewish people nurtured the Scriptures for centuries and they played a magnificent role in prophesying about the coming of the Messiah.

Jesus also knew, it's in the nature of man to reject the truth, and without this battle to preserve the truth -- like preserving freedom -- there is going to be no easy victory. An easy victory is without much value, but a hard won victory bears the most fruit.

In all the Bibles I've ever looked, in every language, I've always found the following passages left in the original language Jesus spoke, that is, in the Ancient Aramaic. The utterance of Jesus from the Cross is to be found only in two of the Four Gospels. In Mark 15:34 and in Matthew 27:46. "And in the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice and said, Eil, Eil, l'mana sh'wik-thani?"

Why were the words of Jesus all translated into Greek, but these words that he spoke from the Cross left in the original language?

You can come up with many answers, but if you're a Christian, you must believe that God wanted these words to remain in the original language.

To me this is the ultimate proof that the entire New Testament was originated in the Ancient Aramaic.