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Dear NSC, I really appreciate your efforts in this …

Comment posted About NSC Network by Joseph George.

Dear NSC,

I really appreciate your efforts in this area and you have really gave me a big break into that vast area of Syrian Christianity which I thought had an uninspiring origin. I was always reading about the apostolic christianity that went to the western world because so much literature exists for them. However I never came across any real book on the syrian apostolic church.

It was by accident that I came across syrians in wikipaedia and then to NSC before 2 months. Both these sites have opened shocking and exciting history of syrian apostolic christianity in India. I was such an ignorant of our rich heritage!

I was inspiringly shocked to know:

1. that Syrian Christians had a rich Judeo-Christian (which is the original apostolic church) heritage and customs before the Latins came here.
2. that the name “Nasrani” started from the Bible for the Judeo-Christians (Acts 24:5).
3. that the Syrian stream was the richest and long surviving branch above the Greek, Celtic and Latin streams founded by the original apostles.
4. that we had the original Received Text of the Bible compiled by Lucian the Syrian saint in the 3rd century known to us as the Peshitta Syrian Bible, on the Greek MS of which, the King James Version is based.
5. that the hardworking, agricultural and mercantile nature of the Syrian Christians COULD be attributed more to the Jewish blood in us than to the lethargic and idle Brahmin blood in us!?
6. that the Hebrews were here even before the 1st century and that is the reason for St. Thomas to come to Kerala.
7. that the concept that our ancient Syrian forefathers were illiterate and ignorant is false and they could be more educated and hard working than us.

Thanks a lot for your invaluable work. Keep it up. All the best.