02-05-2010, 04:50 PM
Shlama all
I thought it would be good to introduce myself to you.
My name is Sami Rabia. I am Christian, or Messihi as we say in Arabic. And I really love to study Peshitta and Tanakh.
I have a small family which consists of Me, my wife and a little one (who is quietly contemplating in the womb right now)
My background is Protestant, although I have been invovled with various forms of it, my view on the Christian church has changed dramtically though over the years, and I have come further away, not from core protestant doctrine, but from being a protestant myself in a sense of identity, in that I have never really fit in with it very well, being from the middle east.
The discovery of the Peshitta was of course a very wonderful thing to me, I am still researching the whole matter carefully though, but its a very joyful work. I have to say that perhaps if it were just a matter of text, it would be quite interesting, but being that it has been gaurded by the CoE has led me also to a discovery of the CoE itself. (I did not know it existed!)
To me I don't think I could express what this means, since I have become a Christian it has perplexed me that all you can read or hear is of western Christianity, and western history.
I was also brought up a Muslim, and the troubles of the greek text laid heavily on me, if you can try and image the mind-set I came from, coming to the western world with its greek primacy and the textual transmission history of the greek, and yet knowing that even through all this, I know what it says is true, even if I cant know for sure, which text, I know the NT message is real, and Meshikha is the only Saviour. My Lord and my God, There is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved.
I am very happy to be involved in studying this Peshitta together, to me, it makes a real difference, in so many ways.
I also Love CoE liturgy, I think how I used to hear
Be Ism Allah El-Rahman El-Raheem
in the name of Allah, Most gracious most merciful
And now I hear
Beshm Awa wa Owra wa Rukha d'Qdsha Almeen
(In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit)
It is so infinitely greater to know the Father than all other things.
Sami
I thought it would be good to introduce myself to you.
My name is Sami Rabia. I am Christian, or Messihi as we say in Arabic. And I really love to study Peshitta and Tanakh.
I have a small family which consists of Me, my wife and a little one (who is quietly contemplating in the womb right now)
My background is Protestant, although I have been invovled with various forms of it, my view on the Christian church has changed dramtically though over the years, and I have come further away, not from core protestant doctrine, but from being a protestant myself in a sense of identity, in that I have never really fit in with it very well, being from the middle east.
The discovery of the Peshitta was of course a very wonderful thing to me, I am still researching the whole matter carefully though, but its a very joyful work. I have to say that perhaps if it were just a matter of text, it would be quite interesting, but being that it has been gaurded by the CoE has led me also to a discovery of the CoE itself. (I did not know it existed!)
To me I don't think I could express what this means, since I have become a Christian it has perplexed me that all you can read or hear is of western Christianity, and western history.
I was also brought up a Muslim, and the troubles of the greek text laid heavily on me, if you can try and image the mind-set I came from, coming to the western world with its greek primacy and the textual transmission history of the greek, and yet knowing that even through all this, I know what it says is true, even if I cant know for sure, which text, I know the NT message is real, and Meshikha is the only Saviour. My Lord and my God, There is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved.
I am very happy to be involved in studying this Peshitta together, to me, it makes a real difference, in so many ways.
I also Love CoE liturgy, I think how I used to hear
Be Ism Allah El-Rahman El-Raheem
in the name of Allah, Most gracious most merciful
And now I hear
Beshm Awa wa Owra wa Rukha d'Qdsha Almeen
(In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit)
It is so infinitely greater to know the Father than all other things.
Sami