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Re: your disposition & an observation!
Posted by Tiglath (Guest) - Saturday, August 12 2006, 14:40:00 (CEST)
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Concerned Assyrian wrote:
>"I hate tp burst your bubble but you didn't chose anything. It was hoisted on you just as it was forced by the Romans onto our ancestors."
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>***Don't be so ignorant Mr. Chibo. Nothing is "hoisted" upon me! I choose to follow the beautiful and true religion of Christianity just as my ancestors have done for more than 2000 years. If I not happy with my faith I would change it no one is forcing me to do anything. Through countless killings, wars and massacres God’s hand has been with us Assyrians guiding us and bringing us to safety.

%%% I meant that we were baptised into the religion before we had any concept of what it was. Also if God has been with us then I'd hate to seem him against us. In case you've missed it the recent war in Iraq has seen arounf 2,000 Assyrians die and over half the population flee. Meanwhile our peoples' attention is on two bishops who are vying for the Patriarchal seat whil our Patriarch sits idly by and acts senile.

>***I have not hijacked anything. My people converted to Christianity and rightly so in Edessa during the reign of King Abgar Ukama. How smart our ancestors were to take the life giving words of Jesus Christ and convert.


%%% Hate to be the bearer of bad news but every Biblical scholar admits that that story is a legend i.e. a polite way of saying a fake. There never was a letter it was used by our church to add a little lustre to its name. Besides the Armenians also claim that they were the first people in the world to accept Christianity. And finally to add further proof Christianity was established 100 years after Jesus, so if true the legend is actually refering to Abgar and Edessa converting to Judaism NOT Christianity at that period of time. It's as silly as the Yemenites stating that they converted to Islam in 500AD.


My people repented and saved Nineveh and once again what smart people they were. Because you worship 'Ashur' and 'Gilgamish' does not make you anymore of an Assyrian than me or anyone else. This is where your warped view takes hold. You idiotically believe that if one is to be an ethnic Assyrian they must be worshippers of 'Ashur' and not of Lord Jesus Christ.

%%% I've never stated that you weren't ethnically an Assyrian, just as the Shiites, Sunni. What we are stating is that religiously we adopted a Jewish religion with Jewish culture.

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>"It's a shame that you put down your ancestors in such a way. Are you also this disrespectful to your parents? Let me make it very clear, our people never worshipped pagan gods they worshipped their god Ashur, the creator of heaven and earth. Only jealous plagiarising Jewish writers considered our god pagan and looked upon our people in such a way. Now since you have backed Christianity my question to you is what do you think of Psalm 137:8-9 and how do you reconile your religion's words with your identity?"
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>***How dare you! My ancestors were some of the greatest people who have ever lived building the world's mightiest Empire. But they correctly took their belief in ONE omnipresent God and smartly accepted Christianity as their faith. Psalm 137, like the rest of Psalms is quite beautiful. Although I am having difficulty understanding how you relate this to anything. Of course I am no theologian, but the lines you refer to do not appear to be God talking but rather those sitting "By the rivers of Babylon".

%%% Let me post it for all to see.
Psalm 137:8-9 daughter of aBabylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
That line specifically states 'happy shall HE (Jehovah) be.' So my question is how can you call your ancestors the greatest people who have ever lived in one breathe and call their religion and their gods pagan and then try and convince us that Christianity and its holy books with quotes such as the one above are a good thing?

>***What a shame that you do not wake up to yourself and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord, your God, your King and your Saviour. When you use the term Ashur you are referring to your God, I sir, follow the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob and the God who is one with His Son and the Spirit in the Holy Trinity. Hopefully you see the light David, hopefully.

%%% Feel free to follow any god you choose. But please show more respect to others who have returned to our true religion and who are willing to tolerate all religions. Religion itself is



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