Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

the Assyrian Christians in India which is called the
St. Thornas Christians. Those believers--
1. Condemned the pope’s supremacy,
2. Affirmed that the Roman Church had
departed from the faith,
3. Denied transubstantiation,
4. Condemned the worship of images,
5. Made no use of oils,
6. Denied purgatory,
7. Would not admit of spiritual affinity,
8. Knew nothing, of auricular confessions,
9. Never heard of extreme unction,
10. Permitted the clergy to marry,
11. Denied that matrimony and consecration
were sacraments,
12. Celebrated with leavened bread and
consecrated with prayer.[33]
The remarkable fact is that in the face of titanic
difficulties the Church of the East was able to
maintain through ages such wonderful unity of
belief and soundness of Biblical living. “In the first
place,” says Etheridge, speaking of one branch of
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