Apostle Letters, Early Reference, Indian Tradition, Thomas the Apostle

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Comment posted Letters of St. Thomas the Apostle to Edessa from India by Admin.

I want to make a clarification that, we are not seeing any “content” in this Jewish heritage hypothesis and the repeated talks on this subject. These are misrepresentations about Christianity in Persia and India. These ‘comments’ are on the same line, which is generally used to divert the discussions. We have examined these in detail, and the “Judeo Christian “ idea is a misnomer. There may have been some Jews who converted to Christianity. I have started correcting the old articles and will continue to do so. It make no sense to continue the “heart talk”, “Messianic Jews” etc in the pretext of Thomas Christians, as these seem to be the interests of cultist affinity which has no relation to Thomasine history.

If the interest is in Kerala Christianity, one has to consider the Apostates of Thomas in India, what makes you to think that the Apostle indeed came to South India, the early situation of Kerala. There are no concrete evidences or documents that Jews were in Kerala in earlier centuries, on the contrary there are some evidences that Greeks, Romans were here. The early Kerala was not just about Greeks, Romans or Jews. Many indigenous tribes also lived here. The Christian community in Kerala was not a stagnet community established by the Apostle Thomas. All the Bishops pre – sixteenth century including, Bishop David, Thomas of Cana/ Mar Sabrisho and Mar Piruz did evangelization in India. We does have many evidences of what has been done by last Chaldeans in the evangelization front. The local tradition recorded by Portuguese also says that the earlier prelates did evangelization and converted many heathens.

What flourished in India from beginning is Syriac Christianity and this is not a cult Christianity or Jewish Christianity. There are many documents available about early Persian Christianity. Please rely on scholars work if interested.

By AD 225, there were more than twenty Bishoprics in North Mesopotamia and in Persia. ( See- History of Mshiha – Zkha by Mingana ).

Large numbers of the converts were from Zoroastrianism, Shamanism and the various cults in Mesopotamia.

“ It is not sufficiently realized by modern scholars that the immense majority of the members of the Nestorian Church living east of the Tigris were of Persian, and not Semitic or Aramean birth and extraction. Many were born of Christian parents who originally belonging to the Zoroastrianin faith, and many others were only themselves converts from Zoroastrianism.”

Mingana , Page 300- “Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and Far East”