In 2016, in a book on the Lord's Prayer, Pope Francis also suggested to all bishops that they change the traditional Lord's Prayer in favor of the Aramaic text. Or the Lord's Prayer request ".and lead us not into temptation." Is the God of Jesus, the Father who loves us, a cynic and sadist who wants to lead us into temptation? In his native language, Jesus prayed like this: “And lead us in temptation." This is something quite different. Jesus, however, blessed the peacemakers and never the warmongers and sword ideologues.
Translated from Aramaic, this line by Jesus means, "I have not come to spread harmony, but to settle disputes." This is much more fitting for the belligerent pacifist from Nazareth, but it is the opposite of what is written in Bibles around the world and with which church leaders have justified "Holy Wars" or "Just Wars" and blessed bombs – even the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Matthew 10:34, one finds the terrible sentence, which is said to have come from Jesus: "For I came not to bring peace, but a sword." Is that what the pacifist of the Sermon on the Mount is supposed to have said? Jesus – a warmonger, really? The translation problem becomes more difficult in other passages in the Bible. Similarly, Hans Küng was disbarred because he could not believe in the "infallibility" of the Pope.
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Sounds simple, but it immediately becomes a problem when you consider that one of the leading and most popular Catholic theologians, Eugen Drewermann, had his teaching license revoked because he would not believe in the virginity of Jesus' mother. In Aramaic, it simply means "young woman". In Jesus' native language there is no word for "biological virgin" at all. This riddle is easy to solve with the help of Aramaic. She was asked, "Do you also know something funny in the Bible?" Her answer: "Yes, a virgin who gave birth to several children." If the words are wrong, the entire message is wrong.Įxemplary of flight from the church is a statement given by the cabaret artist Carolin Kebekus, who has since left her church. I wonder why? In fact, the churches that actually exist have dried up spiritually. Church and society have become more and more alienated. The real reason for fleeing the Church is spiritual and religious. Is this perhaps the real cause of the current dramatic wave of departures from the two major churches? There have been declining numbers of adherents to Catholicism and Protestantism over the last few decades, and the Federal Statistical Office has calculated that this will continue for both denominations.Įven Cardinal Reinhard Marx, when offering his resignation to the Pope, says his Catholic Church has reached a “dead end”.
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Nothing is as hard as letting go of a lifetime of practiced beliefs.Īre the Gospels really full of fake news? Does the best-seller of all best-sellers, the Bible, have to be rewritten? True enough, if the words are wrong, the entire message is wrong. And I found a new, fascinating and very contemporary image of Jesus. But in the end, the subject gripped me so much that in two years, I read everything that the world-renowned Aramaic expert wrote about the original Jesus.
When I read a book by Günther Schwarz for the first time in 2010, I too was skeptical. So, as a journalist, I want to use my Jesus books to educate people about Günther Schwarz's findings. He sent his findings to all German-speaking bishops. His shocking conclusion: “What Christians believe, Jesus did not teach! And what Jesus taught - the Christians do not know.” The theologian has written 20 books and around 100 scientific articles about Jesus and Aramaic.
In doing so, he came to the realization that about half of all Jesus' words in the gospels were mistranslated or even deliberately falsified. Aramaic expert and theologian Günther Schwarz (who died in 2009) was dissatisfied with the classical translation and studied Aramaic every day for 50 years in order to better understand Jesus in his native language. The New Testament, however, is translated from Greek into all the languages of the world. It was his mother tongue and 2,000 years ago it was the main language throughout the Middle East.
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