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

Dear Jackson and John, In support of what I …

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

Dear Jackson and John,

In support of what I have written, please note

Portion of letter received from ‘Debbie Katz (DNA admin. of Cohen group ‘FTDNA’ on 12 March 2009,

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I’d heard about the Nasranis in India but hadn’t realized your family tradition was that you are one of them. I had just assumed all of JTM’s matches were Syrian Christian as he is. This all adds an interesting to piece to the puzzle. Now, is your family’s tradition of Nasrani descent on your father’s side, your mother’s side or both? I’m trying to be sure we stay focused on the fact that our dna match is on the paternal lines only and so what matters most is whether your father and his father and his father etc. all believed themselves to be Nasrani.

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JTM above means ‘Jacob Mankalathil of AbuDhabi/Kerala.

For good order, I am sending Jackon full body of the letter to his email address.

@John.

Debbi’s full name is ‘Debbie Katz’ and her father is a Cohen. Jacob know her much longer than me, but I am sore that Jacob never told her that we are ‘Nasranis’ first and ‘Syrian Christians’ second. We lost years of progress because of this vital information not reaching her. I know you are sorry to hear this.

Interestengly, it was another ‘Nathan Katz’ (Katz means Cohen) who 15 years ago predicted that our ‘heriditary priesthood’ traditions points to the fact that the priests are either ‘Kohen or Namboothiries’ (Ref. Jews of Cochin by Nathan Katz. ) Since Namboothiries are ruled out, Nathan Katz has wonderfully predicted that the priesthood was ‘Cohen’. Which shows that all those who received the ‘Cohen Blessings’ were Jews.
Can you imagine a ‘West Asian Gentile Syriac Christian’ bow to a Cohen and receive a Cohen Blessing. Does a Mongoose get blessing from a Cobra?

Open your eyes and see reality. Stop reading ‘scholarly books’ about prelates/bishops and Mar Adi and Cyril etc… Use commen sence!! These good people like Adi and Cyril have nothing to do with us nor shaped our thoughts.

We Nasranis were INDEPENDENT, but partially leaning towards the Persian CoE with whom we shared somethings in commen. One thing we did not share with them was their animosity to the Jews. We in Malabar were in very freindly terms with the Jews. The Jews stood up as ‘Witnesses’ for us and even undertook to safegaurd our churches. The only other place where this happened was in Yerushalem in AD 71 , when the Pharisees and the Nasrani fought shoulder to shoulder defending their ‘Holy Temple’ and together got slaughtered under Roman swords.