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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN followers of Jesus of Nazareth in India was "Issanuvadikal" which means those who follow Isa (Jesus). Just as the name used in Greek came to be Jesus, the name used in India is Isa for the historical "Yeshua" of Nazareth. This is the word used in the "Bhavishya Purana" where it speaks of Isa Masih when it refers to Jesus. The word Isa which is the name of Jesus as seen in the Bhavishya Purana and other Indian Puranas and appears for the first time only after the Christian era indicating clearly the change in the religious arena of India. Since then Iswaran came to mean God in India. This evidently a Thomasian implication following the exclamation of Thomas on the realization of resurrection of Jesus as “My Lord (Paran) and My God” Iswaran = Isa Paran= Jesus is Lord The correlation goes much deeper. JESUS IS LORD = ISA PARAN = ISWARAN = GOD Thomas said, “MY LORD and MY GOD” The Theology is further developed in the Isavasya Upanishad which is one of the first Upanishads . 28
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Even today every Hindu confess that Jesus is Lord every day without knowing. See my commentary on Isavasya Upanishad which was one of the earliest Upanishads written (Obviously after 150 AD being in Sanskrit) Siva Kovils – Early Indian Christian Churches Those of us who have been collaborating closely with the Bible Translators in Africa know the innuendos of the translation. There are occasional traps in translation. It can go at a tangent and the concept can be misconstrued and misinterpreted. All the places associated with Thomas are Saivite Temples. Those who place “Hinduism” - whatever that means - to have been in existence millions of years has it that this indicate the destruction of Temples and take over of temple sites by Christians. One such series is elaborated in “The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple” (31). Mylapore Shiva Temple was most probably one of the Kovils established by Thomas and was probably his seat in the Southern India. For all probability the Saivite temples were really the original Christian Churches. They flourished for at least three centuries when Gnostics and Brahmins took over these temples and converted them to “Hindu” temples. In the same way it is not difficult to see the distribution of the Jyotirlingas all over India fall on the route of Thomas and its density more centered around the period Thomas' ministry early in his Indian ministry viz, around Taxila. All along the route of Thomas schools of theologies developed and major teachers arose from these schools in the years that followed as attempts in revival of original Christian theology. 29
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