The Bible doesn't instruct to pray to Jesus

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Wasn't it translated BC?

Yes, but let me justify myself.

While the making of Greek translations of the Scriptures apparently started in the 3rd or 2nd century BC, it continued for close to a thousand years. Most of those translations were made by Christians. The early church adopted the Greek as their Bible of choice.

By contrast, the Pharisees rejected all-things-Greek. That actually started well before the 1st century. Pharisee means "separate," and the sect was started with the idea of rejecting Hellenization and maintaining a separate cultural identity.

So... even the earliest copies were largely made by Jews who were proto-Christian, if that makes any sense.

 

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So... even the earliest copies were largely made by Jews who were proto-Christian, if that makes any sense.

I think I understand what you are saying here.

My thinking is that the LXX was translated before the meaning of the Hebrew was lost from disuse, so that we could know which way the Hebrew should be understood.

Much love!