Apostolic church teaching opposite of RCC

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In the decrees of the Synod of Diamper Rome lists these things which she rejects, anyone know the history of the coastal indian churches which taught this, it was thought to he established by St Thomas
  1. She condemns the Pope’s Supremacy.
  2. She affirms that the Church of Rome is fallen from the
true Faith.
  1. She denies Transubstantiation, or that Christ’s Body and
Blood are really and substantially in the Eucharist .
  1. She condemns Images, and the Adoration of them as
idolatrous.
  1. She makes no use of Oils in the Administration of Baptism.
  2. She allows of no Spiritual Affinity.
  3. She denies Purgatory.
  4. She denies the Necessity of Auricular Confession.
  5. She knows nothing of Extreme Unction.
  6. She allows her Priests to marry, as often as they have a
mind; and ordains such as have been married three or four times, and to Widows, without any scruple.
  1. She denies Matrimony to be a Sacrament.
  2. She holds but two Orders—Priesthood, and Diaconate.
  3. She celebrates in Leavened Bread.
  4. She consecrates with Prayer.
  5. She denies Confirmation to be a Sacrament.
 
Who was the she you’re referring to?

That synod was the means by which the St. Thomas Christians of that area were reunited with the Catholic Church, so I’m a little confused.
 
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Yeah but there an apostolic church which denied a majority of the faith since its conception
 
Sorry, still confused.

Are you saying these Christians denied those tenants of the faith?

Even if they did, when they were reunited they would have come to accept the fullness of Truth, and rejected these false notions.

The point of the synod seems to be to condemn certain Hindu beliefs that had crept in among the local believers. Given that they were influenced by a deeply flowed pagan falsehood, it’s no surprise that they would hold mistaken ideals.
 
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My understanding is that the traditional belief is that St. Thomas preached there and founded churches, but they had became heavily influenced by Nestorians and, cut off from the universal Church, had drifted in other areas as well.
 
The Synod of Diamper was in 1599. And yes these Christians had been influenced by Nestorianism. All this is old news. They are now in full communion with Rome under the Syro-Malabar rite. There is no time like the present.
 
Fatima-Crusader said:
they’re an apostolic church which denied a majority of the faith since its conception
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Going by the Wikipedia article, these propositions come from individual books. The Church as a whole did not all subscribe to these things, but some individuals (and followers) each subscribed to a few of these propositions. By condemning the books, the Synod was asserting the faith of the Church, enabling them to reunite with the Pope.

This was a heavy handed examen of their theology books. A millienium of teaching was examined, but there is no implication that every Christian believed all of these things. Rather, one individual believed one thing, another believed a different error. Collected together they are a profession of faith expressed in negative form.
 
Yeah but malabar was established a church there personally
 
Synod of Diamper

This gives you more than I know on the subject, but it does have some bias to it. It is not like articles on hot topics where lots of people contribute.

Unless you know of lots of people interested in the the Synod of Diamper.
 
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