New Testament - Greek or Hebrew?

I had an Hebrew elitist respond to one of my videos online recently, and he had every correction imaginable for me, ranging from the right name for Jesus to the fact that the phrase “holy Spirit” in itself is Satan worship. All thanks to his high degree of “knowledge” of the Hebrew language. Before I continue with this article of truth, let me just make one really plain statement: When Jesus said the following words, he was not referring to being vastly learned in ANY paritcular language other than the language of the SPIRIT OF TRUTH: ”If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (Jn. 8:31,32). And I can assure you personally my friend, the “free” that Jesus was speaking of, very much includes being free from intimidation by subtly arrogant, intellectually religious spirits. One of this individual’s claims was something I’ve heard from other religious circles, and that is that the new testament writings were written in Hebrew, and not in Greek as it has commonly been thought. So what is the answer? Were the new testament writings originally written in Hebrew or Greek? I can answer that question myself, simply based on a solid personal history of experience and real knowledge of God that I have been graciously allowed to be a partaker of for thirty one years. It is this simple my friend: Jesus was born in a stable and first rested in a manger. Do you understand that? A manger is a feeding trough for cattle and oxen and the like. A stable is a boarding place for the same. Do you think that it was any coincidence that there were no rooms left in the inns when Joseph and Mary came from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the taxing? No coincidence my friend.God has always operated in simplicity, and has always catered to the lowly. He has always made things easy for those who simply are looking for truth and reality from him. It brings to mind an ancient proverb: “A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth” (Prov. 14:6). The apostle Paul summed up this point quite well: “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence” (I Cor. 1:26-29).

God simply is not an elitist God, and he does not make things difficult for those who simply desire his righteousness and truth. He tried to get this understanding across to old testament Israel many, many times; as with this statement through Isaiah: “Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word” (Isa. 66:1,2).The notion that the new testament epistles were written in Hebrew is of an Hebrew elitist spirit, which in fact is the very spirit that the apostle Paul warred with over the duration of his ministry; and that very spirit has carried on quite successfully till this day in many forms. False apostles and teachers, who were in fact Jews that were in the body of Christ, meaning that they had received the holy Ghost; continually tried to impose Jewish customs regarding ceremonial ordinances of the law, upon the Gentile believers that Paul had established (Acts 15:1; II Cor. 11:4,13,22; I Jn. 2:18,19). This effort of these Jews to promote this Jewish elitist mentality upon the gentile believers, is what motivated such statements of truth as the following from the great apostle to the gentiles: “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit” (I Cor. 12:13). And: “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek,… for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:27-29). And finally: “For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God” (Rom. 2:28,29). Oh yeah, we could throw this statement by Jesus in for good measure too: “… and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan" (Rev. 2:9). Jesus was speaking of those who persecuted the apostle Paul’s message of the fulfillment of the law, a message that took away their great appearance of righteousness by doing away with all natural, ceremonial ordinances (Philip. 3:2-5; Mat. 23:27,28).

So I said all of this to make this point: The Greek language was the prevalent language of the Roman empire when Jesus and the apostles lived. This means that not only did the larger part of the world formally speak and know the Greek language, but certainly the people of Israel, who were under dominion to the Roman empire, also were learned in the Greek language, and well able to speak it. Not unlike the way that most of the world today is well educated and fluent in the English language. Okay, here it is: Most of the new testament epistles were WRITTEN TO GENTILE CONGREGATIONS, and God did not lead any of the apostles to make it as difficult as possible for those Gentiles to read and understand the epistles that were written to them. It simply is not the way God does things. He is not an elitist God. He would not have required all of these Gentile believers to go and study the Hebrew language for a good while before being able to read the epistles that were sent to them by the apostles, mainly Paul. God’s Spirit does not lead in that kind of direction, as we have seen clearly from the scriptures in this short article. And the Jews who were written to could also easily and readily read the epistles, seeing that they lived also in nations under the Roman empire, which upheld the Greek language. God is not a head God, but rather a heart God, as spoken by Isaiah and referenced above. The Bible says, “Wisdom is before [in front of] him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth” (Prov. 17:24). If you are of the mindset that the new testament scriptures were written in Hebrew originally, you should honestly examine the spirit that is influencing that school of thought; for it is indeed the same old Jewish elitist spirit that troubled the new testament believers in the days of Paul. And that spirit is a deadly poison today, as it was then. Amen.