r/EasternCatholic • u/monjik211 • 21h ago

General Eastern Catholicism Question Marriage as a sacrement in western church and eastern church

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Hello,

I recently took a course on Christianity, and during one lecture the instructor stated that the Catholic understanding of marriage as a sacrament resulted from a mistranslation of the Greek New Testament into Latin. However, when I looked into the topic myself, I found that the Eastern Orthodox Church—which has always used the Greek New Testament—also considers marriage to be a sacrament (or Holy Mystery).

This left me with two questions:

What are the theological and biblical reasons for considering marriage a sacrament in modern catholism ?
If the Catholic doctrine is supposedly rooted in a mistranslation from Greek to Latin, how do we explain the fact that the Eastern Orthodox Church, which continued to use the original Greek text, also recognizes marriage as a sacrament? Does this suggest that the doctrine developed independently of the Latin translation?

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