01/30/2026
In the face of those who strive to deny our heritage, a heritage that also is their own very essence, we stand taller and affirm that we are , children of .
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Mar Benjamin Elia, Bishop of Malbourne of the Eastern Assyrian Church:
Did you know that when God created the universe, He placed Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, which was located in Ashur (Genesis 2)?
Do you know that the Assyrians were the rod of God's wrath (Isaiah 10:5), and the work of God's hands (Isaiah 19:25)?
Know ye also that the Assyrians were the only nation that Christ himself mentioned, and took a good example of repentance, when he said:
“The men of Nineveh will rise up in religion with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the call of Jonah, and this is greater than Jonah here” (Matthew 12:41).
Don't you believe that He who resurrects the dead is also able to command a great whale to swallow a human being and bring him back alive three days later?
Do we measure divine ability with limited human understanding, or are we subjected to his absolute sovereign authority?
If this event is just a myth, why is your church commemorating it?
You did not just change her name from “Baotha Deninway” to just “Baotha”, you are now targeting the essence of her existence.
And if these Scriptural narratives, spoken of by Christ Himself as facts, are now reduced to “myths” or “superstitions,” divine mercy is required for what may come later in some of these churches, at the hands of these so called leaders.
My advice brotherly is to do what pleases God, not to twist His word to fit political agenda or to satisfy earthly presidents.
Don't deny your Assyrian roots, and don't offend the mother church that taught you the Christian faith more than 2000 years ago, not just 500 years ago.
