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Originally Posted by Actor
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As the article said, Koine Greek was used extensively in the ancient world, even by the Jews. When the OT was quoted in the NT, it was most often from the Septuagint version. So, what is your point? For your theory to be valid, it would require a vast Greek conspiracy (to what end, only God knows!) and the Greeks would have had to have known the OT scriptures inside out in order to quote passages that would support NT theology. The scriptures themselves and Occam's Razor would demand an at-face-value acceptance of what the NT says about its writers.
Also, the fact that Koine Greek was used so extensively in the ANE at the time of Christ speaks volumes to the wisdom of God, in terms of the timing of the birth of his Son, because such wide usage of the language greatly facilitated the spread of the Gospel, as did, for that matter, the existence of the Roman empire and its vast network of roads that connected the ANE with Asian Minor and southern Europe.