The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> and then there's Abgar.....

and then there's Abgar.....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, February 8 2012, 15:22:48 (UTC)
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....this fable is the most damning of all.

In the first place Jesus wasn't famous or unique in his own day. Judea was filled with false messiahs....you found one under every burning bush. There was no reason anyone outside his immediate vicinity would have heard of him or, if they had, thought any more of him than the next three messiahs they heard of...so it's highly unlikely that news spread to Adiabene where Abgar was reigning over what were Jews anyway! But, since these Jews were "in Assyria", naturally we converted them to Assyrians, pure descendants from blah blah blah...you know the drill by now.

But even so, even if everyone in Adiabene was a son and daughter of Ashurbanipal, what does this fable tell us about these Assyrians? Well, that they were ready to betray their ancestral god Ashur for a better deal. It seems Abgar had contracted a fatal disease...syphilis maybe...and was doomed. Then one day he hears of this miracle-worker named Jesus, remember Abgar wasn't looking for spiritual enlightenment or better values or anything like that, hell no, he wanted a CURE! To him Jesus was first and foremost a magician, a miracle huckster who just might be able to cure him...but wait it gets sillier still.

So Abgar writes a letter to Jesus saying he hears he's having a hard time with the Jews and why not come to his city where he will shelter and protect him and, by the way, "have you got anything for the clapp"?

Jesus gets the letter, at a P.O. box no doubt...and as he's very busy being reviled writes back that he can't possibly get away but when Abgar receives this very letter and reads it, he will be cured....and lo and behold he is. In gratitude to Jesus and his miracle-working god Abgar forces his people to convert to Christianity (not the last time people were forced to convert) thereby forsaking the god they'd been worshiping all those centuries....because he never cured venereal diseases.

At the time Jesus lived there were no Christians....to be a Christian you HAD to be a Jew first...those were the rules and they didn't change until 70 years after the execution of Jesus. That change was brought about by Paul who nearly got himself killed, by the Jew/Christians, for throwing the door open to all gentiles....so that even if this fable were true, all Abgar did was make Jews out of Assyrians....when more than likely what has happened is that modern Assyrians have been fabricated out of what began as Jewish enclaves scattered around Mesopotamia...but that's another story.

The fable of Abgar is nothing more than a way to discredit Ashur by showing Jesus to be the better miracle-worker thereby also slandering Asyrians as being ever-ready to betray anyone and everyone, including their god, whenever a better deal comes along...this story is an INSULT to assyrians....and nothing to brag about.

But it does nicely fit in with what has been their pattern and habit ever since: they have always betrayed themselves, their neighbors, their countrymen...always in search of that "better deal" no matter where and whom it came from; Jesus or Britain/USA....THAT is the real message of the Abgar fable....and our dummies don;t get it to this day.

How do we know assyrians will stick with Jesus....what if another god shows up and he cures things even faster....will we hold true to Jesus or bolt to the better side?

Guess.

Actually, you don;t have to...it already happened and several times too when the Euro missionaries came, first with the Pope's Jesus...and then with the Lutheran Jesus and the Anglican Jesus and the Presbyterian Jesus and the Orthodox Jesus and the Methodist Jesus etc. In each case numbers of assyrians bolted their Nestorian Jesus for one of these...and why? because they received better spiritual guidance? Saw a better truth? Found the real Jesus? No....because the missionaries bringing these multitudes of Jesuses brought CASH...or gifts in kind. The Euro missionaries had more money in their wallets than did the Patriarch and with this money they could bring tea and stoves and kerosene to heat homes and books for schools and desks and other things many of our people had never seen and couldn't afford....they left their Jesus for the Euro Jesus for CASH....pure and simple.

...what an embarrassment for us all.



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