Apostle Letters, Early Reference, Indian Tradition, Thomas the Apostle
It is a fact that Messianic Jews – …
Comment posted Letters of St. Thomas the Apostle to Edessa from India by student. of history.
It is a fact that Messianic Jews – have had relations with people of other races / communites . So that is why I wrote that they developed a cosmopolitan outlook . You seem to have some confusion between genetics and culture over here. Accepting a foriegn culture does not have anything with genetical continuity.( your comment – the Jews pride themselves on being genetically continuous with Jacob.)
I agree with you it will be very difficult to find a genetically pure Jewish Christian as it is a fact that they would have married from outside thier community.
These new people cannot exactly said to be Jews and I agre with you on that . But they had traces of Jewish heritage in them – be it Syrian or Greek . With Christ the difference between Jew and Gentile is a thng of the past.
All Semitic religions and history have a special place for Noah You can accept it or not . but I never mentioned that Noah as founder of Jewish people ( I shall not waste any space telling about the Jacob – Jewish history ) .
Certain Churches were more / less active when compared to other Churches of the period.
many people have lost our exact roots like wise it is an accepted fact that certain Jewish tribes have been lost ( refer Assyrian history – Hoy Bible,Ezra Chapters 9 and 10-15 ). I believe the motivating force behind of this website – is the urge to know about our past which can be either hidden or lost .
It is a fact that we have all lost many of our heritage and family tribes and it is near impossible to construct an exact family tree of 30 generations without any missing links . (And these missing links are lost tribes within the families of you and me )
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