I want to compare statistics to Islamic statistics.
According to a site I found, will not post link due to question errors when I DO post links, 90% of Muslims don't speak Arabic. Therefore 10% DO speak Arabic, the language that the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, was written in.

1.5 billion Muslims, 150 million Muslims speak Arabic. Of course the Arabic in the Qur'an differs from the Arabic spoken today but the main message is understood. Compare this to Old English where 'you' was 'thou' or 'ye' and etc. Similarly, I think, Arabic is the same.

So 2 billion Christians, most Christians have Spanish or Portugese, some Hispanic language, as their native tongue. How many know Greek and Hebrew?

The Greek part being the New Testament.

What percentage? Or what number, and since you're answering could you post a link that I could refer to?
@Prophet, I don't deny that, the smartest person I know at my age is Catholic, well smart in most things. Please answer the question.

Most people believe that it is just a myth, yet they believe in a god purely through faith: believing in something without any proof. If I were to say that the Christian god is a myth i bet many people would be pissed. And if i told some muslims that they worshipped a false god they might kill me. Why is it absurd to think Greek gods are real? Christians believe a talking snake convinced a woman to eat an apple.

Wouldn't that be the best way to understand what the authors of the Bible actually were intending to portray when they wrote it? Why do so few Christians bother learning these ancient languages that created the book which they worship daily and instead just take a translators word for it? How do they know which version of the translation is most correct without understanding the language themselves?

The Holy Bible, as viewed by us Christians, is God's divine word. It is divinely inspired, albeit written through a human medium.

So was Homer supposedly inspired by the gods to write The Iliad and the Odyssey, for example? Or were those epic pieces of writing his own, and they just alluded to the Greek gods?

And in the juxtaposition of Homer's writing and the Holy Bible, are we really comparing apples and apples?
Hey Invisible Talker- yes, indeed. Thank you for having inspired this question. Thank you also for your response. Good answers, folks.

Hint: The Werwolf has nothing to do with the answer and the Byzantine Christians stole the image from the Greeks.
There is a Byzantian cathedral with "Saint Christopher" as a Cynocephale.
Correction: Cathedral Window

Just curious, I thought he spoke Aramaic, but a preacher at a wedding yesterday stated that he spoke greek. Is that the belief among most Christians?
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I did a quick experiment using Altavista babel fish:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

I copied John 3:16 into the translator as follows:

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

I then translated it into greek and got:

Για το Θεό που αγαπιέται έτσι ο κόσμος ότι έδωσε το ένα και μόνο το γιο του, ότι που πιστεύει σε τον δεν θα χαθεί αλλά έχει την αιώνια ζωή.

Then translated it back into English and this was the result:

For the God that is loved thus the world that it only gave his one and son, that believes in it will be lost but has the eternal life.

I am wondering if as Christians, you have confidence that the text that you rely on for salvation is correct? And why?

If the greek translation of Grace is incorrect then it is possible that millions will be hellbound because of a misunderstanding?

How can you rely on translators who had motives for salvation?