Assyrian Forums
 Home  |  Ads  |  Partners  |  Sponsors  |  Contact  |  FAQs  |  About  
 
   Holocaust  |  History  |  Library  |  People  |  TV-Radio  |  Forums  |  Community  |  Directory
  
   General  |  Activism  |  Arts  |  Education  |  Family  |  Financial  |  Government  |  Health  |  History  |  News  |  Religion  |  Science  |  Sports
   Greetings · Shläma · Bärev Dzez · Säludos · Grüße · Shälom · Χαιρετισμοί · Приветствия · 问候 · Bonjour · 挨拶 · تبریکات  · Selamlar · अभिवादन · Groete · التّحيّات

christianity is designed to shutdown Assyrianism!!

Locked: Read only    Previous Topic Next Topic
Home Forums Religion Topic #7
Help Print Share
j_sorisho
 
Send email to j_sorishoSend private message to j_sorishoAdd j_sorisho to your contact list
 
Member:

33. Therein Lies the Crux of our Discussion

May-23-2001 at 08:51 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

In reply to message #31
 
Dear Albert,
Because we didn't share a similar belief in terminology, we were unable to have a real discussion on this topic. Your definition of Christianity and Assyrianism is entirely your own and so far, not substantiated by the Bible, theological works by our Church or any church in the entire world. Thus, you will be limited in your future discussions about this topic because you are invoking words (Christianity, Assyrianism) that you've casually redefined. This is a fatal flaw in discussions. I am in college right now and it is CRUCIAL for us to be very, very careful about what words we use when arguing a certain subject. Otherwise, our arguments are debunked and invalid. There can be no real discourse on topics like this unless there is a mutual understanding of definitions of the terms invoked in discussion.

All this time I discussed Christianity (a) and Assyrianism (b) as two different entitites. A does not equal b; A is never equal to B because their are bodies of information (the Bible, Christian theology, historical textbooks, archaeological studies of Assyrian people, etc) that distinguish and separate the two as being entirely different entities.

From our discussions, I did learn that next time I engage in a dialogue with someone I refrain from doing so until we have a common understanding of terminology. I hope you do the same! If the whole world considers the sky blue, but Albert deviates from the rest of the world and calls it Azure/Navy/Orange, he needs to defend it with textual, historical, systematic references or else his arguments are loony. I say that in love, Albert!!

Julia

Print Top

 christianity is designed to shutdown Assyrianism!! [View All], Albert Nassermoderator, 02:02 AM, Aug-28-2000, (0)  

Forums Topics  Previous Topic Next Topic


Assyria \ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)   1:  an ancient empire of Ashur   2:  a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)   3:  a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender   4:  a democratic state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter — Atour synonym

Ethnicity, Religion, Language
» Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
» Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
» Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic
Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

Aramaic \ar-é-'máik\ n (1998)   1:  a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.   2:  has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.

Please consider the environment when disposing of this material — read, reuse, recycle. ♻
AIM | Atour: The State of Assyria | Terms of Service