Indian Christianity

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.
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