Teaching and learning the biblical languages
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:21 pm
So I've got a sort of general question that I've been asking people for awhile, and I wanted to pose it here and get your general thoughts. Why don't Christians feel the need to learn biblical Greek and Hebrew? Of course, it would be difficult for this present generation for obvious reasons. But you can teach children this stuff with ease. Besides that, both Jews and Muslims have their children reading their Scriptures in Hebrew and Arabic respectively by the time they are thirteen! Shouldn't we be at least as committed to the Truth as they are to their religious ideas?
It wouldn't be at all difficult. I worked in a Korean church for about three years, and one of the things they did was give the children Korean classes once a week, because growing up in America, English was becoming their first language. The same idea could be applied in our churches. So why not? The benefits would be astronomical, wouldn't they? Our children would be able to read the Word of God as He intended it to be read, and as one who is currently learning Greek, I can tell you that it makes a HUGE difference. Besides that, it would improve their secular education as well. They would have access to the great classics, and their grasp of communication and language in general would greatly improve. It wasn't until recently that classical Greek stopped being taught in Europe, and I believe that it was taught in America for some time as well at the primary levels . . .
So, I'm thinking about teaching Greek to kids next year. What are y'all's thoughts on the matter?
Thanks
It wouldn't be at all difficult. I worked in a Korean church for about three years, and one of the things they did was give the children Korean classes once a week, because growing up in America, English was becoming their first language. The same idea could be applied in our churches. So why not? The benefits would be astronomical, wouldn't they? Our children would be able to read the Word of God as He intended it to be read, and as one who is currently learning Greek, I can tell you that it makes a HUGE difference. Besides that, it would improve their secular education as well. They would have access to the great classics, and their grasp of communication and language in general would greatly improve. It wasn't until recently that classical Greek stopped being taught in Europe, and I believe that it was taught in America for some time as well at the primary levels . . .
So, I'm thinking about teaching Greek to kids next year. What are y'all's thoughts on the matter?
Thanks