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    The true branch...

    Thomas Christians had such a strong sense of caste and tradition, being the oldest order of Christianity in India. The archdeacon was the head of the Church, and Palliyogams (Parish Councils) were in charge of temporal affairs. They had a liturgy-centered life with days of fasting and...
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    The Nasranis are an ethnic Jewish believers in Yeshua and in that sense a single community. However the Nasranis have various denominations as a result of Portuguese persecution. Claudius Buchanan, 1811., Menachery G; 1973, 1998; Mundalan, A. M; 1984; Podipara, Placid J. 1970; Leslie Brown, 1956
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    Widespread and enduring was the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath among the believers of the Church of the East and the St. Thomas Christians of India. It was also maintained by the Abyssinians. As an ethnic community they refer to themselves as Nasranis referring to the common cultural...
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    Thomas is said to have begun preaching the gospel to the already existing Jewish settlers in the Malabar Coast and other locals. According to the Acts of Thomas, the first converts made by Thomas in India were Malabari Jews, who had settled in Kerala since the time of King Solomon of Israel...
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    Forgivness... Another layer of the onion

    I have instances of my own where I know there was something, but for the life of me I can not remember... all I really remember was that it was wrong, I forgave and now it is forgotten and can not be brought to mind.
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    Eternal life

    I picture two scenes, the Garden of Eden.. and the Heavenly Court.... Both of which I will get to see in my eternal life.
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    A Law which sets free.

    It is like a great big circle where Life is. As long as you remain in that circle, you will have life. It is the line God drew, Yeshua catches those who cross the line and are sorry. So if you are well within the boundaries of the Law, which is where the Spirit leads you, you will find harmony...
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    If you do not learn from history.. it will repeat itself

    The growing influence of sunday worship in political dominance during this time period can be shown through 218-222 AD when Emperor Elagabalus brings Syrian sun worship to Rome as an state instituted observance. By 270-275 AD Emperor Aurelian establishes sun worship as state religion of Rome. So...
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    If you do not learn from history.. it will repeat itself

    130 - 140 AD Epistle of Barnabas was written in Alexandria where gnostic thought was prevailant and it was first anti-Sabbath literature that I know of. It was soon after that believers in Alexandria replace Sabbath with Sunday. The Epistle of Barnabas contains no clue to its author nor to...
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    Christianity which first reached France and Britian was of the school of the apostle John, who ruled the churches in Asia Minor. Colonists from Asia Minor laid the foundations of the pre-Patrick church. They brought with them the doctrine which they received of John, Paul, Philip, and the other...
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    Olarius, who wrote a preface to a Hebrew translation of the Augsburg confession prepared by Philipp Gallus in 1888, reports of Paulus, a rabbi in Prague who had been his teacher. The rabbi came to faith after reading the Hebrew translations of the Gospel of Matthew and Paul's epistle to the...
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    A shining source of inspiration was Joseph Rabinowitz's establishment of a Messianic synagogue in Kishinev, Russia, in 1884 called Beney Israel, Beney Brit Chadashah (Israelites of the New Covenant) . Neither Rabinowitz nor his synagogue was connected to a Christian denomination; the government...
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    "The Roman Catholics have proudly and exclusively claimed St. Patrick, and most Protestants have ignorantly or indifferently allowed their claim...But he was no Romanist. His life and evangelical Church of the 5th century ought to be better known." (McClintock and Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical...
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    Other doctrines that Patrick, Columba, and the Celtic assemblies held included the observation of the other Festivals of the Eternal (Lev.23), the belief in the mortality of man and the hope of the resurrection (vs. immortality of the soul and going to heaven, hell, and/or purgatory); the...
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    "...they ignorantly refuse to observe our Easter [Pascha] on which Christ was sacrificed, arguing that it should be observed with the Hebrew Passover on the fourteenth of the moon." (Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, II, 19 wherein Bede quoted "Pope" John's words concerning the Celtic brethren)
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    The true branch...

    As noted above, the Christianity which first reached France and Britian was of the school of the apostle John, who ruled the churches in Asia Minor. Colonists from Asia Minor laid the foundations of the pre-Patrick church. They brought with them the doctrine which they received of John, Paul...
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    "In this latter instance they seemed to have followed a custom of which we find traces in the early monastic church of Ireland by which they held Saturday to be the Sabbath on which they rested from all their labours." (W.T. Skene, Adamnan Life of St. Columba, 1874, p.96)
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    "It seems to have been customary in the Celtic churches of early times, in Ireland as well as Scotland, to keep Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, as a day of rest from labor. They obeyed the fourth commandment literally upon the seventh day of the week." (James C. Moffatt, D. D.,The Church in...
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    ABU'L FARAJ, Gregory , also called BAR-HEBRAEUS(1226-1286) born in Melitena, son of the Aaron the Jewish physician who cured Saurnavinus, a Tartar general from a disease. Master of Greek, Syriac and Arabic, student of philosophy, theology and medicine, he became an Anchorite in Antioch and...
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    There is a book written on this very subject. Amazon.com: Nazarene Jewish Christianity (9789652237989): Ray Pritz: Books
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