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To: The_Reader_David

It is no coincedence that Islam’s teaching about Christ developed where the Nestorian heresy flourished.


198 posted on 01/11/2012 9:47:11 PM PST by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: lastchance

Actually, there is a strong tradition, historical memory I want to say, among Orthodox Christian Arabs that Mohammed was a Nestorian missionary who went rogue. Textual analyses of the Qu’ran support the tradition, as there are passages that are nonsense as Arabic, but perfectly good East Syriac.

I have even speculated that “the Angel Gabriel”, at least in the first-written Suras, was not a delusion of Mohammed’s that he messenger sent to Mary was speaking to him, but a reference to the Bishop of Kirkuk, at that time one Mar Gabriel, using the ancient custom found in the Apocalypse of St. John and the usage of Syriac speaking churches of referring to the local bishop as “the angel of [name of local church]”. (The Orthodox bishop of Bosra-Haran in Syria to this day bears the title “the Angel of Haran”.)


223 posted on 01/11/2012 10:16:47 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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