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• Does the Assyrian Church of the East (Nestorian Church) claim to be Oriental Orthodox? Does it call itself Orthodox at all? And I would like to know when it was founded and by who?
• God blesses Assyria, "Assyria the work of my hands." Why did God bless Assyria when all it did in the Old Testament was to destroy and plunder kingdoms?
• I am an Assyrian Catholic. I have some points to make concerning Assyria and the Assyrians:
  • God’s Words to Isaiah, “Assyria, the work of my hands” (Isa 19:25) were said thousands of years before Our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Why do you call us gentiles?
  • The book of Nahum was just a poem celebrating the fall of Nineveh. Why do you keep on referring to it?
  • "On judgment day, the people of Nineveh will stand up and accuse you" (Mt 12:41). This is God’s decision to bless us
  • Why are you Egyptians full of hatred towards us?
  • Why didn’t Pope Shenouda meet Pope John when he visited Cairo?
  • Abraham the patriarch was Assyrian.
  • Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic and not Hebrew.
• Is Assyria supposed to be the first church at Antioch?
• What is the status of Assyria in the Old and New Testament?
• Why in the Old Testament God chose Israel and called them His people and favored them over Assyria?