01-13-2008, 11:42 PM
Dear David,
Have you ever seen the movie (the modern re-make) 'The Mummy'?
Remember all of those 'zombies' walking down the street with their brains gone and their arms outstretched chanting an Egyptian 'gods' name?
That's my take on MOST (but not entirely ALL) SDA's. lol <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/laugh.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laugh" /><!-- s:lol: -->
Ditto, for WWCOG people.
Have you ever read 'Truth Triumphant--The Church in the Wilderness' by Benjamin George Wilkinson Ph.D. ?
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Wilkinson got allowed literally to go into The Library of Congress vaults to research, and to write this book.
The Church of the East, at it's birth, DID all of these things that you mentioned below.
With the exception of attending Synagogue (shul).
I STRONGLY recommend that you read Wilkinson's book.
It's an eye opener.
And yes, it's true that The Assyrian Church of the East NO longer does these things, but at it's very early inception, it did them all but one (which I pointed out).
Clearly, the Nazarenes "migrated" into the Church of the East. History shows us this.
Check it out.
Shlama, Albion
Have you ever seen the movie (the modern re-make) 'The Mummy'?
Remember all of those 'zombies' walking down the street with their brains gone and their arms outstretched chanting an Egyptian 'gods' name?
That's my take on MOST (but not entirely ALL) SDA's. lol <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/laugh.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laugh" /><!-- s:lol: -->
Ditto, for WWCOG people.
Have you ever read 'Truth Triumphant--The Church in the Wilderness' by Benjamin George Wilkinson Ph.D. ?
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Wilkinson got allowed literally to go into The Library of Congress vaults to research, and to write this book.
The Church of the East, at it's birth, DID all of these things that you mentioned below.
With the exception of attending Synagogue (shul).
I STRONGLY recommend that you read Wilkinson's book.
It's an eye opener.
And yes, it's true that The Assyrian Church of the East NO longer does these things, but at it's very early inception, it did them all but one (which I pointed out).
Clearly, the Nazarenes "migrated" into the Church of the East. History shows us this.
Check it out.
Shlama, Albion
Dawid Wrote:That's fine that you believe that. It's wonderful. But you have not given me any evidence. I don't mind this, but I don't really understand the point of it in the Nazarene section. Historically, it is quite clear that the sect called the N'tzarim by the church fathers are not related to the COE so closely as all that. It is made clear that they kept Shabbat, attended shul, and kept the Torah. (you can find all of this in Ephiphanius's Panarion 29) In the Talmud it is made clear that they kept observances such as the Ketubah, Yom Qippur, and others. I really don't think that this group can be associated with the COE too closely.