The Assyrian Church of the East Explained in 2 Minutes

Are you sure that they receive leaved bread in the hand? I saw a video where it said otherwise.

ZAKHO in the house ❤️

I'm here cause Mar Mari Emmanuel:)

mary a supposed virgin, so who knows

Great video, thank you!
I didn't know that. I thought they are orthodox christians. But you cleared it out.

Nestorius himself called mary the mother of God

Is it just me that finds it funny that he places orthodox further away from oriental while catholic is right next to the oriental despite Eastern and oriental Orthodox being far closer together theologically? Sorry it's so wordy

Accept the wording of Ephesus.

Will they go extinct someday?

Nestorios follows the Assyrians and not the other way. Nestorios came from Byzanz to Assyria and not the other way. So Assyrians are not Nestorians.

The only Rabi is 🏹"Ehye Ashur Ehye"🏹
Exodus 3:14
And not "i'am who i'am"

This is how God introduced himself
"Im the living God 🏹Ashur🏹"

Im an Assyrian 😊

Do they believe in the Rapture?

You used a picture of St Thomas Syriac Christians from India in your thumbnail instead of Assyrian Syriac Christians.

Assyrian of the east, Orthodox, Catholic all have apostolic succession. They didn’t evolve out of the 5th century. They can be traced to Jesus by succession

Church of the East does not deny the title Mother of God.
It's official stance is that only the title Mother of Christ gives the all encompassing meaning.
Mother of God simply neglects Jesus's humanity.
According to the the Church of the East, Mary is not just the Mother of the Son of God, she's also Mother of the Son of Man.

Church of the East disagrees with the definitions of the Roman/Byzantine Church of the West because it's christology is vague and brings forward a new and hybrid substance in Jesus by mixing up his divinity and humanity into one hypostasis/substance. This is denying that Jesus is consubstantial to God the father and also to the mankind. The hybrid substance that the Chalcedonian churches and the hybrid substance and hybrid nature that Oriental Orthodoxy brings forward is nothing but a prelude to Apolonarism and Arianism. Both of these ancient heresies denied one or both of Jesus's consubstantiality.

Assyrian church of the east doesnt belive in Nestorianism, they condemned it heresey. they even excommunicated a priest last year due to his false teachings teaching the practices of Nestorius.

All churches came from Church of the East which still has ‘Malka’ from the last supper.

Bishop Mari Emanuel is a modern saint

Nice to see our bishop in picture.

Couple errors, I’m apart of the ACOE.

1. We don’t deny theotokos (mother Mary being the mother of God). We agree with both; but we prefer Christokos over theotokos as a reference to which person of the godhead we are talking about.

2. We venerate Saint Nestorius because we’ve preserved a book from him called “the bazaar of heracleides”, and in this book he verbally denies the idea Christ is 2 persons.

3. We don’t deny Mother Mary gave birth to Christs divinity, we simply mean she didn’t CREATE his divinity.

4. Our Christology is that Christ is 1 person with 2 inseparable united natures.

5. “Syriac language”, our dialect is Aramaic, the language of Jesus.

6. We do not disagree on the hypostatic Union with eastern orthodox. We actually agree with Eastern Orthodox’s interpretation.

Much more to the story, this video got a bit off.

God bless from Ethiopia

As an Assyrian that grew up in the ACOE I can attest that our church is absolutely closer to the original form that was practiced. The oldest church is Assyrian and we still read the original version of the bible in Aramaic and our prayers are all in Aramaic as well. Since moving to the UK and not being near to an ACOE I have tried many different churches and none have the same power as the ours. It quite literally feels like a different religion when I go to these other churches. It makes me very grateful to have grown up in the ACOE and also makes it extra special for me when I get to go back to it when in the states.

Call them Nestorian heretics!!!

They are nestorian heretics

As an Assyrian I just want to say our Christianity is really the same as most, nothing is significantly different for the adherents of the Church. Nicene Creed

The church of the east was established in the first century, it was given recognition in the 4th. Just thought I’d clarify that because the Orthodox Church did not come before the east.

Why did you post the indian church of the east for pictures of Assyrians

misconception, the [Assyrian] Church of the East was never Nestorian in theology. the Church of the East followed the theology of Theodore of Mopsuestia whom also happened to be the teacher of Nestorius.

Assyrian Church of the East but you put Indian clerics in the thumbnail? Please represent the church with actual Assyrian clergymen. Assyrians are very underrepresented in the media already.

Ready to harvest,,, you refer to these groups a "the church's". they are nothing but the great whore and her children, they have no resemblance to the true church, so stop referring to them with the word "church",. there isn't a saved soul among them. there is only one church and it has no roof nor walls nor rituals. We don't "go" to church, we are the church.

What are the canonical Biblical texts of the Assyrian Church?

What books do they have in their Bible?

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There are two different church of the East…
1. Church of the East ( who pretty much follow the catholic tradition)

2. Ancient Church of the East ( follow the old calendar)

I’m currently reading a book called The Lost History of Christianity by Phillip Jenkins. Your videos and this book has filled in the knowledge gap I had concerning Church history. Thank you.

You failed to answer one question that seems kind of important: are they mostly composed of ethnic Assyrians?

An otherwise informative video which has unfortunately completely omitted Kerala (Thrissur) Assyrian Church of the East that uses the East Syriac Rite and the Liturgy of Sts. Addai and Mari which is closest to the Didache from 90 AD (as opposed to the West Syriac Rite of St. James). They and the Syro-Malabar Church are the original St. Thomas Nasarani Christians of Kerala who stuck with the Eastern Rite after the famous Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. — The Eastern Rite is a particularly powerful rite and even though it lacks the verba or Words of Institution/Consecration, nevertheless the Holy Catholic See in 2001 held the Anaphora of Sts. Addai and Mari to be valid.

Thank you! What about the Ancient Church of the East?

She is the Mother of God
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Did she create God? No
Did she begott God? No
Did she give birth to God in His different form? Yes
Did she give birth to flesh only or flesh with divinity? Flesh with Divinity

Then she is the Mother of a Divine being.

There is a difference between Creator of God and Mother of God.

The problem with denying Mary as Mother of God and affirming Mary to be only the mother of the man Christ Jesus is that in doing so, you invariably either deny the divinity of Christ (as the fourth-century Arians did) or create two persons with regard to Jesus Christ. Both errors result in heresy.

One bummer is we don't have icons. I really wish we would. Otherwise, the Church is awesome!

People forget the St Thomas Christians of Kerala, South India were part of this church from the 4th century and to a certain extent still are. The church was present in the north of India as well separately.
The Church of the East thrived in Kerala until the 15th century -more than a thousand years. The association with South India started earlier and lasted for a longer period than other parts of Asia. It was so well established that it continues today albeit in a much more limited manner. You don't hear this fact mentioned as much as the association with China which occurred much later.

It should be saying, while yes the Church of East hold the title Mother of Christ, they still venerate her on high as much as the Catholic, Oriental and Eastern Churches.

They agree with the titles prescribed they just do not believe she was Mother of God, but she is the most highly venerated saint in there church

That makes much more sense. Mary mother of christ, and that she gave birth to the human nature of Jesus. I’ll trust the guys that accepted christ as a whole nation 30 years after his crucifixion over the Catholics

It may be worth noting that I Nicaea and subsequent Councils excluded large swaths of Christianity: some groups, many but not all of them Gnostic, did not have bishops and so were not invited to attend. It is also worth noting that the men put in charge of organizing Nicaea were staunch followers of Athanasius and arranged to get Arian bishops -- a slightly larger portion of the Christian groups who were invited -- locked out of the proceedings entirely. Thus, the Nicene Council agreed "once and for all time" that the Son was equal to and co-eternal with the Father and rejected Arius' position that only the Father was eternal with the Son being His first creation.

Yes, what would become Christian orthodoxy was the direct result of political maneuvering and one-up-manship.

This video doesn't give much information about the Church of east.