tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384971553289258955.post1195853879703161175..comments2022-04-08T04:14:42.609-05:00Comments on The Cross of the East: 360th anniversary of Coonan Cross Oath (Koonan Kurishu Satyam).John Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12298415980394667152noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384971553289258955.post-82029006752631140782014-10-15T19:54:10.529-05:002014-10-15T19:54:10.529-05:00Jewish ancestry exists among Indian Christians as ...Jewish ancestry exists among Indian Christians as proven by DNA evidence recorded by National Geographic’s Genographic Project.<br /><br />I am a multi-generational Indian Orthodox Christian (Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church) hailing from the MANAKALATHIL family in Amichakary, Kerala, India.<br />I & several male members of our family including several distant male cousins (upto 7 generations removed) had our Paternal DNA tested by National Geographic’s GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT. <br />DNA test results reveal an EXACT DNA MATCH with several (around 50, who have done the same Paternal DNA test) KOHANIM JEWS (descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses) around the world including the USA. <br />DNA evidence states that we are all descendants of a common “Jewish male ancestor” on the basis of our Y Chromosome exactly matching each other, and the fact that everyone but our family are all currently Jews (Cohen, Katz, Rosenberg, Kessler, Kaplan, etc.) outside India. For your information, among males, the Y Chromosome does not change across generations, and so this evidence is scientifically undeniable.<br /><br />When exactly our family’s conversion from Judaism to Christianity happened cannot be proven as yet, but if one looks historically at the early Christian Church, the first Christian converts were Jews and the Apostles early Christian converts were Jews. Based on that, there is every reason to believe that Apostle Thomas also came to India to convert Jews to Christianity. Also, based on my family’s Jewish DNA lineage, we know that Jewish converts to Christianity exist to this day in India.<br /><br />My family - MANAKALATHIL family from Amichakary, Kerala, India is living proof that Jewish ancestry exists in the Christian Community in India.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06680781244945123269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384971553289258955.post-29686086403365700592013-12-04T22:42:49.367-06:002013-12-04T22:42:49.367-06:00We cannot rule out the possibility of St. Thomas&#...We cannot rule out the possibility of St. Thomas's visit to India. St. Thomas's presence in the palace of Gondopharnes is confirmed by the discovery of coins. Apart from numismatic evidence, the presence of Christian population in and arond Taxila is another strong evidence for the missionary activities of St.Thomas. Pope Benedict, historian and research scholar, would have probably doubted St. Thomas' visit to Kerala. But Thomas' missionary activities in the Persian region was never doubted by scholars. He probably would have extended his missionary activities beyond Taxila and come to Mylapore where he was killed. His followers would have come to Kerala to spread the gospel. Mylapore Christians were probably known at that time as St. Thomas Christians. Their missionary activities in Kerala in converting people and building churches would have been probably attributed to St. Thomas.<br /><br />There is, of course. no eviidence for the conversion of Jews in Kerala. The very fact that Christian population was greater than White and Black Jews is an unassailable evidence that Jews were not converted. Portuguese and Dutch writers do not make any reference to Christian Jews in Kerala. The Dutch and English were Protestants and they supported missionary activities of Protestant missiionaries. Protestant missionaries did not find any Christian Jewish family in any part of Kerala to pursue their activites. According to Portuguese and Syrian writers about 200,000 Christians assembled at Matancherry at the time of the Coonen Cross revolt. They were not Jews or Nambudiri Brahmins or Nairs. There would not have been 200 Jews in Kochi at that time. At the most there would have been 300 Nambudiris in and around Mattancherry. Nairs would never join because they were forcing Christians to work as labourers in their paddy fields (oozhiyam service). It is quite obvious the large crowd near the Coonen Cross were local Christians. Only from the coastal area such a large number of people could be collected by the Archdeacon Thomas. . Even the Archdeacon probably would have belonged to fishermen community. When St. Xavier visited Kochi he was greeted by two mukkuva (fishermen) Christians. The only Church in Kerala before the arrival of European powers was the Syrian church, and the mukkuas belonged to Syrian church.It becomes clear from these historical facts that there were no Christian Jews in Kerala in the pre-Portuguese period.Raju Rajanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11388942492908196469noreply@blogger.com