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I was sent a link to this website,
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really hard to read.

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everything I read from this website and
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that I believe.

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As in my faith, I'm just telling people
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people like to listen to me when they're
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minds.

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Pray to not be deceived, and pray that God
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Yeah, the whole truth, and have faith that
He will.

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And so, I'm just going to read this,
and I might interject once in a while.

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I think they talk about eternal souls and
stuff like that.

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I don't believe in that.

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But, you know, for the most part,
I'm just going to stay out of it and just

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read what's written here.

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And then I'm also going to put a video at
the end of this, and I'll leave some links

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below so that you can study this for
yourself.

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From BewareDeception.com Who were the
Edianites?

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The natives of America are commonly called
Indians, but strictly speaking,

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they are not Indians, and in fact,
they never were.

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Christopher Columbus ignorantly labeled
the natives of America Indians.

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He believed mistakenly that the land he
discovered was part of the island of Asia,

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then called Indies.

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The Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia,
Volume 2, on page 20, candidly admits this

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fact.

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American Indians, indigenous peoples of
the Americas, the name Indian was first

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applied to them by Christopher Columbus,
who believed mistakenly that the mainland

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islands of America were part of the Indies
in Asia.

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Collier's Encyclopedia, Volume 12,
on page 642, further corroborates this

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fact.

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When Columbus landed in the Bahamas in
1492, he thought he had reached the

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islands off the eastern coast of Asia,
then known as the Indies, and he called

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the villagers who greeted him Indians.

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Here we have it in the plain language.

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Columbus simply made a mistake.

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A mistake which was never corrected by
later historians.

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The indigenous peoples of the Americas are
not, and never were, Indians.

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They were known by their tribal names.

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The same historians who failed to correct
the blunder of Columbus also referred to

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Yeshu as Jesus and his earliest followers
as Christians.

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It is an irrefutable fact that Joseph and
Mary and all the relatives of Yeshu never

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referred to him by the name Jesus or the
title Christ.

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Jesus was known by his Hebrew name Yeshu.

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Anyway, Yeshu conversed with his relatives
and disciples in either Hebrew or Aramaic,

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and not in Greek or English.

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Therefore, Yeshu never labeled his
followers by the name Christians,

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since this name is derived from the Greek
term christionai, devised in Antioch by

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the Paulinist followers.

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The teachings and the life of Yeshu,
strictly speaking, should not even come

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under the heading Christianity,
since the Jews in Galilee and Judea never

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regarded Yeshu as a Christian or a founder
of a new religion, but rather they viewed

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Yeshu and his earliest followers as
another deviationist sect within Judaism.

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The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 5,
on page 506 corroborates this fact.

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Strictly speaking, the career and ministry
of Jesus and his relations with his

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disciples do not come under the heading
Christianity.

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They are rather part of the history of
Jewish sectarian movements towards the end

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of the Second Temple Period.

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Before Yeshu even began his ministry,
there already were three major sects

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within Judaism, Pharisees, Sodomites,
Hestenes, and Nazarenes.

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Church father Epiphanius, who lived and
wrote in the 4th century, testified that

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the earliest followers of Yeshu did not
call themselves by the name Christian,

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but that they were rather identified by
the name Nazarene.

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The Nazarenes did not apply to themselves
the name of Christ or the name Jesus

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itself, but the name Nazarene,
and all Christians were at that time

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similarly called Nazarenes.

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But in Antioch, the disciples and the
whole Church of God began to be called

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Christians.

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We also know from the Jewish Talmud that
the first followers of Yeshu were not

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regarded as followers of a new religion,
but rather as members of a deviationist

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sect within Judaism.

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The Talmud also identifies the first
followers of Yeshu as Nazarenes.

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Even the Arabs and the Koran refer to the
first followers of Yeshu and the community

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which he led as Nazrani, that is,
Nazarenes.

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Even in this day and age, Christians are
simply known as Nazarenes among the Arab

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Muslims.

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Acts 24.5 irrefutably shows that as far as
the Jewish populace of Judea and their

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leaders were concerned, the followers of
Yeshu were simply members of the new sect

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within Judaism, which they identified by
the name Nazarene.

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The Jewish leaders mistakenly assumed that
Paul himself was one of the ringleaders of

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the Nazarene sect.

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It was in Antioch that those who accepted
Paul's version of the gospel abandoned the

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original name Nazarene and instead began
to call themselves by the new name

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Christiani, that is, Christians.

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At this time, Paul, whose original name
was Saul, also abandoned his Hebrew name

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and adopted the Roman name Paulus.

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Eusebius says that he did so in honor of
the proconsul whom he converted to his

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version of faith.

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The book of Acts clearly shows that Paul
was originally always called by his Hebrew

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name Saul.

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The name change took place in a chapter
where he meets the proconsul Sergius

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Paulus.

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From that point on, Saul is always
referred to by his new name Paul.

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Acts 13 verses 6-12 It is imperative for
you to realize that the new name

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Christians was never adopted by the twelve
of whom James the Just was the chief.

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This is evident by the fact that the
Jewish populace in general had no

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knowledge of the name Christian,
even years after it was adopted by the

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Gentile followers of Paul.

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Acts 24.5 uses the term Nazarene sect
towards the end of Paul's career.

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Even the Jews in Rome knew nothing of the
new religion called Christianity,

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but only of the sect of which the Jews had
a bad opinion.

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Acts 28 verse 22 The believers in
Jerusalem and Galilee retained their

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original name and were later also known by
their derogatory name, Evianites.

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There were many members in the Nazarene
sect, as is evident from the book of Acts.

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The Nazarenes flourished in Judea and
Galilee until in 66 CE when the Romans

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besieged Jerusalem.

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Just prior to the destruction of
Jerusalem, Simeon the cousin of Yeshu was

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instructed in a vision to lead the
Nazarenes out of the city.

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Simeon succeeded James the Just as the
leader of the Nazarenes.

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A Catholic historian Philip Hughes in his
book A History of the Church on page 57

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points out Some vision had warned the
bishop, Simeon, of the coming troubles,

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and the faithful had left the city in time
and settled at Pella, in the pagan country

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across the Jordan.

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Church father Epiphanius wrote,
Apostles settled in Pella after the

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removal from Jerusalem in consequence of
Christ's injunction to leave the city and

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emigrate in view of the impending siege.

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Teacher, Journal of the Jewish Studies The
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity on page

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490 gives us the following information.

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At the beginnings of the Jewish war
against Rome in AD 66, Jewish Christians

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in Jerusalem, and perhaps also in Galilee,
escaped to Pella in Berea.

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As a matter of fact, Yeshu himself warned
the disciples to leave Jerusalem when they

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see Jerusalem besieged.

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And when you see Jerusalem surrounded by
armies, then you will know that the time

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of its destruction has arrived.

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Then those in Judea must flee to the
hills.

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Let those in Jerusalem escape,
and those outside the city should not

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enter it for the shelter.

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Luke 21 verses 20-22 Yeshu specified that
the city of Jerusalem, and in particular

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its temple, would be destroyed,
and that this would be the time of

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punishment, so that everything written
concerning it could be fulfilled.

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Luke 21-22 The Essenes, Nazarenes,
and Evianites believe that the destruction

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of the temple took place primarily because
the Jewish hierarchy and the Sadducee

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priests refused to discontinue the
sacrificial cults.

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In the Evianite Gospel, Yeshu is quoted as
saying that unless the Jews abolished the

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sacrificial cult, the wrath of God would
not depart from them.

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In the recognition of Clement,
Apostle Peter points out that the

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destruction of Jerusalem and its temple
was directly brought by God in order that

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the sacrificial cult could cease.

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Peter pointed out that all those who
rejected the sacrificial cult and

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practiced vegetarianism would be preserved
and would not perish with the rest in the

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city.

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It is significant to note that the
believers who were led by Simeon,

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the successor of James the Just,
actually escaped and settled in Pella of

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Perea, an area which was known as
Transjordan.

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All historians agree that this was the
area where the Jewish Christians,

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or the Christian Christians, did later
flourish.

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The stronghold of the Evianites was in
fact the Transjordan.

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Rev.

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A.F.

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Findley, in his book, Byways in Early
Christian Literature, on page 87,

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says, We are probably correct in regarding
these Evianites of Gnosticizing tendency

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as the descendants of the Palestinian
Christians who fled to Pella before the

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destruction of Jerusalem.

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church, on page 433, locates the Evianites

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east of the Jordan River.

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A sect of Jewish Christians which
flourished in the early centuries of the

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Christian era, the sect flourished
especially on the east of the Jordan.

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The Encyclopedia of Religion, volume 4,
on page 576-577, states, It is possible

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that the Evianites go back to the earliest
period of Christian history, when most

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Christians were Jews.

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If so, they would be the earliest example
of a Christian movement within Judaism

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that was eventually left behind as
Christianity adapted to the influx of

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Gentile converts.

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These Christians eventually became a
distinct group that, along with other

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groups, e.g.

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the Gnostics, was rejected as heretical by
the emerging, great, and quotations,

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Church.

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They are sometimes identified with the
Minim, Heretics, and the Jewish Talmud.

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Information on the Evianites is gathered
over three centuries, from the middle of

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the 2nd to the middle of the 5th,
suggesting that the sect had a continuous

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history as a distinct group from the
earliest period.

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The greatest strength of the Evianites was
in Palestine and Syria, areas where

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Judaism flourished.

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One community of Evianites lived in Pella,
east of the Jordan River, and claimed to

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be descended from the original group of
Christians, who were thought to have fled

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Jerusalem at the time of the war with
Romans in 70 CE.

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Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol.

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4, on page 344, says, Explicit mention of
the Evianites is first found in the works

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of Irenaeus, p.

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185, and they were known to still exist in
the 4th century.

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They evidently left Palestine and settled
in Transjordan and Syria, and were later

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known to be in Asia Minor, Egypt,
and Rome.

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New Age Encyclopedia, Vol.

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9, on page 309, says, Evianites,
Hebrew, Evian, poor man, name probably

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applied at first to all Christians,
later used particularly of an ultra-Jewish

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party who, though Christians, remained
outside the Catholic Church.

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Catholic means universal.

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They flourished in the early centuries of
the Christian era, particularly on the

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east side of the Jordan.

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The original followers of Yeshu were known
as Essenes and Nazarenes, initially

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flourished in Transjordan, but soon
afterwards, and especially after the

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rebellion of Bar Kochba, the Jewish
Messiah, they were stigmatized by the

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rabbis of newly emerged Pharisaic Judaism
as the deviationist sect, and were

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therefore expelled by the rabbis of
Normative Judaism.

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Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol.

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5, on page 511, candidly admits,
In due course, the Jewish Christians were

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included in the category of those
sectarians whom the Jewish community

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rejected and anathematized.

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The male dictation of the Minim contained
in the daily Amidah was introduced,

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these reformulated, in order to render
impossible Jewish-Christian participation

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in the service of the synagogue and to
compliment their separation.

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That Bar Kochba I mentioned just a few
lines ago was the one I mentioned in the

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previous video.

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So you can see my previous video if you
haven't already.

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The Nazarenes were lining up with this
group of Jews who were fighting against

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the people who wanted to get rid of the
circumcision, the physical circumcision.

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The Romans thought that that was horrible,
that you should not do that.

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And the Nazarenes and the Jews were saying
we have to keep it, so there was an

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uprising.

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But as soon as the Jews labeled Bar Kochba
as the Jewish Messiah, and they forsook

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Jesus, then the Nazarenes who said Jesus
was their only Messiah had to leave,

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so they left that fight.

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So that's around the same time period
here.

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Continuing on on this page.

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The original believers and followers of
Yeshu who were established by the Twelve

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were eventually excommunicated by the
rabbis of normative Judaism.

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They were despised and rejected as a
heretical sect.

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Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 2,
on page 3, says that Samuel HaKatan

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composed a benediction which targeted the
Judeo-Christians, or more specifically,

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the Nazarenes.

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He did this by applying it to the Jewish
heretics.

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It is generally assumed that this new
formulation was meant to force the

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Judeo-Christians out of the Jewish
community.

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In the Genesau version, the word Nazarim
actually occurs.

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The Hebrew word Nazarim is the very word
by which the first followers of Yeshu were

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called by the Jewish populace and the
rabbis of normative Judaism.

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It is the very name by which those same
believers were identified by the Jews in

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Acts 24, verse 5.

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Yeshu's followers were henceforth forced
to abandon the Jewish synagogue since the

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new formula required them to pronounce a
curse on themselves every time they would

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assemble with other Jews in a synagogue.

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The participants in the Jewish synagogue
were henceforth required to pronounce the

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following words in their daily prayers.

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May the Nazarenes and the heretics be
suddenly destroyed and removed from the

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book of life.

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Chadwick, The Early Church, page 21.

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Ravon Gamaliel II introduced the 18th
benediction with the following words.

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Let the Nazarenes and the heretics perish
in a moment.

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Let them be blotted out of the book of the
living and let them not be ridden with the

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righteous.

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Ferguson, The Backgrounds of Early
Christianity, pages 461-462.

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Henceforth, the Essenes, Nazarenes,
Thevianites were no longer recognized by

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the Jewish rabbis and they were persecuted
and ostracized.

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While the Jews were looking for a way to
get rid of the Nazarenes, the Paulinist

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followers and Christians were transforming
his movement into the emerging Catholic

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Church.

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Thus, the original true followers of Yeshu
and the Twelve found themselves in a very

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peculiar position.

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They were excluded and rejected by the
Jewish community as a whole, and at the

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same time the emerging Catholic Church
refused to acknowledge them as true

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believers, but branded them as heretics
and gave them a new derogatory name,

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Thevianites.

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The term in Hebrew simply means poor ones,
but the Catholic bishops and the Church

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Fathers applied it sarcastically,
implying that they had a poor intellect

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and understanding.

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Since according to them they were poor of
intellect due to their damned doctrines

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and teachings, Hugh Smith, a Presbyterian
writer, in his book, History of the

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Christian Church, on pages 69 and 72
states, These Judaizing Christians were

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first known by outside world as Nazarenes,
abhorred and publicly execrated by the

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Jews for their attachment to Christianity,
and despised by the Christians for their

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prejudice in favor of the Mosaic law they
were peculiarly oppressed and unfortunate.

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The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity,
on page 491, explicitly says concerning

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the Jewish Christians, that these groups
should disappear is not surprising,

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since they did not fit either into
post-Temple Judaism nor into the emerging

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Catholic Church.

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Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas,
in their book, The Hiram Key, on page 335,

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say the following, A sect called the
Evianites was a direct descendant of

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James' church.

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This sect held teachings of James the Just
in high regard.

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For a long time after the death of Jesus
and James, the terms Evianite and Nazarene

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were completely interchangeable and these
people were condemned under both names by

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the Church of Rome as heretics.

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Keith Akers, in his book, The Lost
Religion of Jesus, on page 174,

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says, Jewish Christians were finally
excluded from the Jewish synagogues and

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condemned as Jewish heretics.

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Suddenly, within a space of a few decades,
Jewish Christianity becomes a sect

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excluded by both Jews and Christians.

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It is during this time that the Evianites
probably first emerged as a distinct group

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to preserve the religious views they felt
had been passed down to them from Jesus

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himself through James and his spiritual
descendants.

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Chadwick, a church historian in his book,
The Early Church, on page 23, points out

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the following fact, From Irenaeus onwards,
Jewish Christianity is treated as a

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deviationist sect.

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Rather than as a form of Christianity with
the best claims to continuity with the

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practice of the primitive church at
Jerusalem, the Jewish Christians call

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themselves Evianites.

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The most learned of the church father's
origin, who was at the same time most

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sympathetic towards the Evianites,
explicitly stated that the Jews who

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accepted Yeshua were called by the name
Evianites.

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This is what Hastings Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics, Volume 5,

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on page 153, has to say on the subject.

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Origin says that these Jews who have
received Jesus Christ were all called by

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the name Evianites.

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A Jewish scholar, Shlomo Pines,
in his book, The Jewish Christians of the

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Early Centuries of Christianity,
according to a new source on page 65,

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states, Quite clearly, these Jewish
Christians believed that they preserved

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and continued the traditions of the first,
not yet corrupted, Christian community of

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Jerusalem founded by immediate disciples
of Jesus who professed his religion.

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Rabbi Philip Sigal, in his book,
Judaism, the Evolution of a Faith,

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on pages 82-83, frankly states,
Christian Judaism continued to survive

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west of Jordan River and south and east of
the Dead Sea, and survived in the

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variegated sects known to patristic
writers, most notably as Evianites.

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The Christian Jewish Church of James
predominated until 70 CE, and while

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significance of James is diminished in
canonical Christian literature,

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the now-available Nag Hammadi literature
highlights the major role he played.

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It is clear that some Christians believe
Jesus first appeared to James,

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and that the disciples chose James as
their legitimate leader of the Church of

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Jesus.

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This movement, the Evianites, grew
increasingly isolated from emergent

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Catholic, in quotes, Christianity in the
4th and 5th centuries.

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Like I said, Catholic means universal,
so they're probably doing quotes because

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they're talking about the universal
Christianity that's not quite universal

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because not everybody accepts it.

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Moving on, Leonard George, in Primes of
Perception, an Encyclopedia of Heresies

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and Heretics, or Evianites, writes,
Within a few decades of Jesus' death,

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the Christian movement split into two
factions, the followers of Paul,

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who believed that Christianity was a new
religion, completely separate from

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Judaism, and the Jewish Christians,
who held that Christians should continue

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to adhere to the traditional religious
practices of the Jews.

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The Pauline party developed into Orthodox
Catholicism.

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A group of Jewish Christians who became
known as the Evianites survived as a

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heresy.

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The doctrinal position of the Evianites
overlapped the beliefs of the Jews and

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Orthodox Christians and caused them to be
condemned by both.

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In turn, the Evianites regarded the Jews
as unenlightened and damned Paul as the

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first Christian heretic.

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The sect proclaimed that most of the
scriptures the Catholics revered were not

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authentic.

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Even though the Evianites were direct
descendants of the Jerusalem and Galilean

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believers, the emerging Catholic Church
and virtually all of the Church Fathers

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vigorously opposed them and regarded them
as heretics, condemning them and

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ostracizing them.

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The Anglican scholar David L.

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Edwards, in his book The Real Jesus,
on page 39, candidly admits that Evianites

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were direct descendants of Yeshu and his
earliest followers, and explicitly states

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that both the Orthodox Jews and the
Paulinist Christians despised them and

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condemned them as heretics.

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Early in the 4th century, the Church
historian Eusebius recorded a tradition

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that the Christian had escaped from
Jerusalem when the trouble began,

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but it is certain that they became a small
group which was regarded by fellow

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Christians as well as by all Orthodox Jews
as heretical.

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Their version of Christianity came to be
called Evianite.

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Yet it was based on a count of Jesus given
by his own family and by his earliest

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followers.

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Edwards, although Anglican, candidly
admits and frankly states that the

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original believers who escaped from
Jerusalem were regarded as heretics by the

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mainstream of Christianity, the Paulinist
Christianity, which was then emerging into

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the Roman Catholic Church.

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Edwards is aware of the fact and actually
says that it is certain that these

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believers who migrated to Transjordan
called themselves Evianites and that they

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actually preserved their version of faith
which was based on the testimony of the

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closest relatives of Yeshu and its
earliest and closest associates,

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the Twelve Apostles.

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The Jewish scholar Chaim Maccabi in his
book, The Mythmaker, Paul and the

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Invention of Christianity on pages 179 and
182 says, Thus, the Evianites,

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by their continued belief in Jesus as the
prophet and Messiah, were increasingly cut

24:57.470 --> 25:00.150
off from the developing activity of
rabbinical Judaism.

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Yet it was probably not until about 135
that the Evianites were finally declared

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heretics by the Pharisee rabbis.

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Gentile Christianity, however,
unlike Evianite Christianity, was never

25:13.570 --> 25:18.050
declared heretical since it was too far
removed from Judaism to be regarded as a

25:18.050 --> 25:18.930
heretical form of it.

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The Evianites were thus in the unhappy
position of being ostracized both by what

25:24.690 --> 25:28.750
was now main body of Christians,
the Catholic Church, and by the Jews.

25:29.770 --> 25:33.810
The pressure to join one or the other of
these two religions was enormous and by

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the 4th century the Evianites had ceased
to be a discernible separate community.

25:38.810 --> 25:43.430
Constantly they have tended to be
disregarded and despised by historians.

25:43.430 --> 25:48.250
Yet what remains of their testimony about
the origins of Christianity is of unique

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importance, for unlike the Catholic
Church, they were directly linked to the

25:51.990 --> 25:53.990
Jerusalem Church, and thus to Jesus
himself.

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Their testimony about Paul and the
circumstances in which he broke with the

25:58.810 --> 26:03.190
Jerusalem Church deserves to be treated
with respect, not with the usual scornful

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dismissal.

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The Evianites did not survive for the
simple reason that they were persecuted

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out of existence by the Catholic Church.

26:10.410 --> 26:15.130
When this oppression was lifted for any
reason, for example when an area changed

26:15.130 --> 26:18.650
from Christian to Muslim rule,
they sometimes came out of hiding and

26:18.650 --> 26:20.110
resumed an open existence.

26:20.830 --> 26:28.010
There is even evidence from the works of
the Jewish philosopher Zadaia that this

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happened as late as the 10th century.

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The Evianites suffered persecution by
their countrymen, the Jews, just as Yeshua

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said they would.

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But they were also ostracized and damned
by the fellow Christians, who allegedly

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believed in Yeshua in fall of the 12th.

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Yeshua did say to his disciples that a
time would come that whomever kills them

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would think they would do God a service.

26:50.750 --> 26:54.930
Man, Myth, and Magic, the Illustrated
Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion,

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and the Unknown, Art, Evianites,
states, Remnants of Jewish Christianity

26:59.450 --> 27:04.590
survived in various places in Palestine,
Syria, and Egypt until the 5th century.

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Its members clung to the original tenets
of their faith.

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They are known only through the garbled
and prejudiced accounts of Orthodox

27:12.110 --> 27:14.650
Christian writers who regarded them as
heretics.

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They are named either Evianites or
Nazareans, and various strange beliefs and

27:19.350 --> 27:20.570
customs are ascribed to them.

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The church fathers and the bishops of the
emerging Catholic Church condemned the

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Evianites and branded them as heretics.

27:28.310 --> 27:34.290
Andrew Welburn, who was originally a
fellow at the Warburg Institute at the

27:34.290 --> 27:38.350
University of London, but is now fellow of
New College, Oxford, argues that the

27:38.350 --> 27:41.770
church fathers got it all wrong and that
the Evianites were not heretics,

27:42.130 --> 27:44.590
but rather those who preserved original
and true faith.

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In his book, The Beginnings of
Christianity, on pages 86-87, Welburn

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writes, The church fathers described the
Evianites as a heretical sect,

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which they certainly were not,
or at least were not until the later

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church thrust that role upon them.

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Yeshua said to his disciples that they can
only expect to be treated as he was,

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since he was regarded as heretic by the
mainstream Judaism of his day and in fact

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was killed for his heretical views.

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It was only to be expected that his
immediate followers were to be also

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regarded as heretics and that for their
views would have to pay with their lives.

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Yeshua never envisaged that his followers
would comprise a large and powerful

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movement aligned with the secular
kingdoms, as was the case with the

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emerging Catholic Christianity.

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So who were the Evianites?

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They were true believers who were directly
linked to Jerusalem apostles and therefore

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to Yeshua.

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The second page I'll be reading from is
called Evianite Beliefs and Practices.

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In this article I will only point out some
major beliefs and practices of the

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Evianites which are known from patristic
writings of the early centuries and some

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surviving documents which apparently stem
from the Evianites themselves.

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In some of my other articles, these
beliefs and practices are vindicated.

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The first thing I want to point out is the
fact that the Evianites had a very

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peculiar attitude towards the Jewish
Pentateuch and the Bible in general.

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They argued that the Jewish Pentateuch was
falsified and that it contained many

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periscopes which were of diabolical
origin.

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They likewise believed that the Old
Testament as a whole was corrupted by the

29:24.010 --> 29:27.230
Jewish scribes and was not preserved in
its original form.

29:27.230 --> 29:34.110
Of the canonical gospels, they only
accepted Matthew in its original Hebrew

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form.

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They outrightly rejected all the epistles
of Paul.

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The first Evianite doctrine therefore
holds that the Bible is fallible and that

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not everything in the Bible is inspired or
should be believed and practiced.

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The following references will demonstrate
this fact.

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Church Father Epiphanius, who knew some
Evianites personally, testifies that they

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did not accept the entire Jewish
Pentateuch, but rather suppressed and

30:00.690 --> 30:01.870
rejected certain passages.

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They do not accept the whole of the
Pentateuch of Moses, but suppress certain

30:06.650 --> 30:07.150
passages.

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Panarion 38 Epiphanius repeats this
statement in Panarion 38.

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The Evianites believed that the original
Pentateuch of Moses was corrupted by the

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lying scribes and contained many
falsehoods which, according to them,

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were contrary to the nature and character
of God.

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They claimed that it was the mission of
Jesus to purge these falsehoods and

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restore the true Pentateuch.

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Rabbi Philip Segal, in his book,
Judaism, the Evolution of a Faith,

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on page 83 states, They regarded him,
Jesus, as the last and greatest of the

30:43.410 --> 30:47.090
prophets of Israel who restored a
corrupted Torah of Moses to its original

30:47.090 --> 30:47.530
state.

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Professor Ferguson, in his book,
The Backgrounds of Early Christianity,

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on page 578, says of the Evianites,
They removed many passages from the Old

30:57.790 --> 31:02.090
Testament as false periscopes,
claiming that passages about animal

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sacrifice and the monarchy and offensive
stories about the patriarchs were

31:06.750 --> 31:07.830
interpolations.

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A Jewish encyclopedia, Our Jewish
Christian Sex, on page 39 says,

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Similarly discarded were all passages of
the Bible providing for kingship,

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an institution which they abhorred.

31:21.430 --> 31:27.510
All anthropomorphic expressions of God and
unpraiseworthy stories about the

31:27.510 --> 31:32.970
representatives of true prophecy,
e.g., Adam's sin, Noah's drunkenness,

31:33.310 --> 31:35.450
Abraham and Jacob's polygamy, etc.

31:36.850 --> 31:41.050
Catholic Cardinal Danilu, in his book,
The Theology of Jewish Christianity,

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on page 64, says of the Evianites,
They see Jesus as a reformer of the law

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who brings it back to the true ideas of
Moses.

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As it exists in Judaism, the law seems to
them to be mixed with elements of

31:54.390 --> 31:57.690
diabolical origin which are later than
Moses'.

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From the preachings of Apostle Peter
preserved in the Clementine homilies,

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where many ideas and beliefs of the
Evianites are preserved, we find that

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Peter held a very negative opinion of the
Jewish scriptures.

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In homily 2, chapter 38, Peter says,
For the scriptures have had joined to them

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many falsehoods against God, after a
little the written law had added to it

32:20.410 --> 32:23.250
certain falsehoods contrary to the law of
God.

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In homily 3, chapter 9, Peter says,
Worthy, therefore, of rejection is

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everyone who is willing so much as to hear
anything against the monarchy of God.

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But if anyone dares to hear anything
against God as trusting in the scriptures,

32:39.670 --> 32:44.890
let him first of all consider with me that
if anyone, as he pleases, form a dogma

32:44.890 --> 32:49.130
agreeable to himself, and then carefully
asserts the scriptures, he will be able to

32:49.130 --> 32:52.730
produce many testimonies from them in
favor of the dogma that he has formed.

32:52.730 --> 32:58.170
How, then, can confidence be placed in
them against God when what every man

32:58.170 --> 32:59.430
wishes is found in them?

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A side note is, I've actually said
something similar to that before,

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where I'd say people can read into the
Bible whatever they want to read.

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If they believe Jesus is God, then they
will read verses to say that Jesus is God.

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If they don't believe Jesus is God,
they will read verses and see that it does

33:18.170 --> 33:19.650
not say that Jesus is God.

33:19.650 --> 33:24.110
The same Bible, people are using the exact
same Bible, it will say different things

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to them because people will cling to what
they believe.

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You have to let go of what you think they
should say and you have to trust the Holy

33:31.470 --> 33:32.950
Spirit to lead you to all truth.

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Back to the article.

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In Homily 2, chapter 52, Peter rejects
several well-known passages of the Jewish

33:41.390 --> 33:45.810
Pentateuch which deal with Adam,
Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Moses.

33:45.810 --> 33:50.070
Peter states that these passages which he
condemns and rejects are impious

33:50.070 --> 33:50.930
imaginations.

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Assuredly, with good reason, I neither
believe anything against God nor anything

33:56.430 --> 34:01.130
against the just men recorded in the law,
taking for granted that they are impious

34:01.130 --> 34:01.930
imaginations.

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For as I am persuaded, neither was Adam a
transgressor, who was fashioned by the

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hands of God, nor was Noah drunken,
who was found righteous above all the

34:11.730 --> 34:16.030
world, nor did Abraham live with three
wives at once, who on account of his

34:16.030 --> 34:20.630
sobriety was thought worthy of innumerous
posterity, nor did Jacob associate with

34:20.630 --> 34:24.870
four, of whom two were sisters,
who was the father of the twelve tribes,

34:25.250 --> 34:27.930
and who intimated the coming of the
presence of our Master.

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Nor was Moses a murderer, nor did he learn
to judge from an idolatrous priest.

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He who set forth the law of God to all the
world and for his right judgment has been

34:37.830 --> 34:40.190
testified to as a faithful steward.

34:41.290 --> 34:45.190
In Homily 2, Chapter 51, Peter explicitly
says,

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Peter repeats this assertion in Homily 3,
Chapter 50,

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And finally, Peter repeats this in Homily
18, Chapter 20, in more elaborate form.

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Peter also, he says, wishing to exhibit
the cause of their error more distinctly

35:45.330 --> 35:49.730
to them, On this account ye do err,
not knowing the true things of the

35:49.730 --> 35:53.210
Scriptures, on which account ye are
ignorant also of the power of God.

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Wherefore every man who wishes to be saved
must become, as the teacher said,

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a judge of the books written to try us.

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For thus he spake, become experienced
bankers.

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Now the need of bankers arises from the
circumstance that the spurious is mixed

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with the genuine.

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The statement of Jesus concerning
experienced bankers was also known to the

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church father, Origen, who quotes it in
his commentary on John 19, verse 7.

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The Ebionites vigorously repudiated and
condemned these teachings, which for them

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were blasphemous doctrines.

36:45.010 --> 36:48.730
Catholic Cardinal Danilu, in his book,
The Theology of Jewish Christianity,

36:49.030 --> 36:50.610
on page 63, points out,

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a point they make very clear, it was at
his baptism that a power from God

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descended on him.

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The Ebionites are radically
anti-Trinitarian.

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Church historian Eusebius, who lived and
wrote in the 4th century, testified that

37:22.370 --> 37:26.130
Ebionites did not believe in the virgin
birth of Jesus, and that they denied his

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deity.

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The heresy of the Ebionites, as it is
called, asserts that Christ was born of

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Joseph and Mary, and supposes him to be a
mere man.

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Rabbi Philip Segal, in his book,
Judaism, Evolution of a Faith,

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on page 82, says,

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Encyclopedia of Religion, volume 4,
on page 576, states,

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He was an exceptional man in the line of
Jewish prophets, as described in

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Deuteronomy 1815, and denied the virgin
birth.

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Professor James Dunn, in his book,
Unity and Diversity in the New Testament,

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on pages 241 and 242, expressly states,
One of the most frequently attested

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features of Ebionite Christology is their
affirmation that Jesus' birth was wholly

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natural.

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He was the natural son of Joseph and Mary.

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Apostle Peter, in the Clementine Homilies,
Homilies 16, chapters 15-17, says,

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It is the peculiarity of the Father not to
have been begotten, but of the Son to have

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been begotten.

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He who is not the same in all respects as
someone cannot have all the same

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appellations applied to him as that
person.

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If the one happens to be self-begotten or
unbegotten, they cannot be called the

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same.

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Nor can it be asserted of him who has been
begotten that he is of the same substance

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as he is who has begotten him.

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Learn this also.

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The bodies of men have immortal souls
which have been clothed with the breath of

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God.

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And having come forth from God,
they are of the same substance,

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but they are not gods.

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But if they are gods, then in this way the
souls of men, both those who have died and

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those who are alive, and those who shall
come into being, are gods.

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But if, in the spirit of controversy,
you maintain that these are also gods,

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what great matter is it then for Christ to
be called God?

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For he has only what we all have.

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We call him God, who peculiar attributes
cannot belong to the nature of any other.

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For as he is called the unbounded because
he is boundless on every side,

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it must of necessity be the case that it
is no other man's peculiar attribute to be

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called unbounded.

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As another cannot, in like manner,
be boundless, but if any one says that is

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possible, he is wrong.

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For two things boundless on every side
cannot coexist.

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For the one is bounded by the other.

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Thus it is in the nature of things that
the unbegotten is one.

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And of course I don't believe in eternal
souls, because that's a pagan belief and

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not found in the Bible.

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The Ebionites were strict Unitarians and
vigorously opposed the Trinitary dogma.

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They believed that there is only one
supreme and sovereign God who is truly and

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genuinely God.

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They argued that even Jesus, who was the
greatest of all the prophets, acknowledged

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him as God and prayed to him and
worshipped him.

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The Almighty God and Father of Jesus never
prayed to Jesus or ever bowed down in

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worship before him.

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The Ebionites also rejected the Jewish
sacrificial cultists and practiced

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vegetarianism.

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They also abstained from wine and other
intoxicating beverages.

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They insisted that Adam was a true prophet
and therefore rejected the original sin

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dogma of Catholic Christianity.

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They maintained that Jesus' mission was
strictly to teach and it had nothing to do

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with Christian dogma of atonement.

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They believed and dogmatically taught that
Jesus was murdered by the Jews simply

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because they could not accept his views
and doctrines and that it had nothing to

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do with atonement or paying the penalty
for the supposed sin of Adam or that of

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his posterity.

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When the Ebionites observed the so-called
Lord's Supper or Eucharist commemorating

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Jesus' death, they did not use wine but
only water, proving that they did not

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believe in the blood atonement.

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Cardinal Danilu, in his book, The Theology
of Jewish Christianity, on pages 63-64,

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writes to the Ebionites, They also reject
any aspect of Christianity which makes it

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a religion of salvation.

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For them, Christ's mission is simply of
teaching.

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They see Jesus as a reformer of the law
who brings it back to the true idea of

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Moses.

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As it exists in Judaism, the law seems to
them to be mixed with elements of

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diabolical origin which are of later dates
than Moses'.

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The elements to be rejected are primarily
the temple worship and in particular the

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bloody sacrifices.

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Great scholar Dr. Larson, in his book,
The Essene Heritage, points out,

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It was the basic Essene doctrine that sin
did not derive from Adam but from the

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activities of the fallen angels known as
the Watchers.

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Some of the lower angels came to this
earth to give instructions.

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They became degenerate and could no more
ascend to heaven.

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This was the Fall, precisely as we learn
in Enoch and Jubilees.

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This, according to Essene, the Evianite
doctrine, was the origin of that dreadful

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impiety.

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The eating of meat, blood, thus shed,
polluted the air with noxious vapors.

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Mankind was filled with diseases and death
came prematurely and in agony.

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The Dictionary of Historical Theology,
Art, Evianites, on page 167, points out

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that the Evianites rejected Paul's
teaching concerning Sodeurology and Blood

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Atonement.

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He, Jesus, was the true prophet.

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C.F.

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Deuteronomy 18, 15-22 A second Moses,
a teacher and reformer.

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He was not a priest.

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Rather, he came to abolish the sacrificial
cultus and to restore the true spiritual

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meaning of the Mosaic Code.

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The Pauline construal of the death of
Jesus as sacrifice was therefore wrong.

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The name Christ was given to Jesus at his
baptism when God adopted him as his

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messianic prophet.

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The Evianites maintained a strong
eschatological hope the Son of Man

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transfigured into supra-angelic form would
return in glory.

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The twin foci of Evianite Christology were
thus, Baptism and Perugia, not Incarnation

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and Atonement.

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The Evianites maintained that living water
was not the blood of the sacrificial

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victim, purified the convert, and was
administered for the remission of sins.

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They therefore focused on two major
doctrines, Baptism and Perugia,

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the return of Jesus in glory.

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The Catholic Christianity, and later also
the Protestant Christianity, focused on

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Incarnation, God in the flesh theory,
and Atonement, the human sacrifice of

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Jesus in order to appease the wrath of God
and atone for the sin of Adam.

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The International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Art Evianites,

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on page 10, says Jesus was for them the
great reformer of the law, whereas Paul

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was its distorter.

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The Evianites also believed that the grace
of baptism put an end to all sacrifices.

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The destruction of the temple was brought
about by God because of the Jews' refusal

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to discontinue the temple's sacrificial
system.

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Christianity for them was not a religion
of salvation.

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Jesus came not to save, but to teach.

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He stood in a direct line with the great
prophet.

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Prophetism climaxed in him.

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He came after Adam and Moses to reform and
purify Judaism.

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Man, Myth, and Magic, the Illustrated
Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion,

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and the Unknown, Art St. Paul,
on page 2152, points out He, Paul,

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imagines that before a series of world
ages, aeonials, of which present is the

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last, God planned to save mankind from
their subjection to the Archetones.

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The plan took the form of deceiving the
Archetones by sending into the world a

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preexistent divine being designated the,
quote, Lord of Glory, end quote,

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who was incarnated in the person of Jesus
of Nazareth.

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Not recognizing his true nature,
the Archetones crucified Jesus and thereby

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forfeited their hold over mankind.

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The implication of Paul's brief but
pregnant statements were worked out by

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later Christian theologians into what
became the classic form of the doctrine of

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salvation.

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Paul thus identified Jesus as the
incarnation of the, quote, Lord of Glory,

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as he interpreted his crucifixion as the
climax of God's plan of salvation.

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He makes the Archetones responsible for
his crucifixion.

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By so doing, Paul transformed the original
belief in Jesus as the Messiah of Israel

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into an esoteric doctrine of a divine
savior whose death had delivered mankind

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from their enslavement to the planetary
powers.

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Thus the presentation of Jesus was
intelligible to Graco-Roman society.

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In thus interpreting Christianity,
Paul believed, as we have seen,

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that he was inspired by God for the
salvation of the Gentiles, to whom the

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gospel to the circumcised was both
unintelligible and offensive.

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When, however, the original Jewish
Christians at Jerusalem realized the

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nature of Paul's teaching, they were
shocked and vigorously repudiated it.

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They refused to recognize Paul as an
apostle.

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He had never been an original disciple of
Jesus.

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And they sent emissaries of Paul's
converse to present their own gospel as

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the authentic version of faith.

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Church father Epiphanius, in his Panarion
30.16, points out that the Ebionites did

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not use wine when they observed the
memorial of Yahshua's death.

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They have a baptism of initiation and each
year they celebrate certain mysteries in

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imitation of the Church of the Christians.

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In these mysteries they use unleavened
bread and, for the other part,

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pure water.

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Catholic Cardinal Gene Danilu,
in his book, The Theology of the Jewish

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Christianity, on page 57, comments on the
statement of Epiphanius, the reference to

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mysteries as evidently concerned with the
Eucharist and one detail in particular

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should be noticed, the exclusion of the
wine.

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Church father Epiphanius also testified
that the Ebionites rejected the Jewish

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sacrificial cultists and that they were in
fact vegetarian.

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He points out that the Ebionites rejected
the biblical passages where it said that

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any holy patriarch and therefore true
prophet of God ever offered a bloody

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sacrifice or ate the flesh of an animal.

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They do not accept the whole of the
Pentateuch of Moses but suppress certain

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passages.

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If, in regards to eating of meat,
you raise the objection that Abraham

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offered a calf to the angels, they say
that they do not believe that.

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They do not accept the entire Pentateuch
of Moses but suppress certain passages

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that Abraham, for example, offered a calf
with milk to the angels or that Noah,

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Isaac, Jacob, or Moses made sacrifice.

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Rev.

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Finlay, in his book, The Apocryphal
Gospels from History of Christianity in

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the Light of Modern Knowledge,
says of the Ebionites, in practice they

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were vegetarians, looking with abhorrence
on flesh as food and slaying of animals

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for sacrifice.

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In his book, Byways in Early Christian
Literature, on page 38, Rev.

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Finlay says that the Ebionites had an
abhorrence of all bloody sacrifices and

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the eating of flesh.

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The International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia, Volume 1, on page 184,

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says of the Ebionites, they rejected the
Old Testament sacrificial laws and were

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vegetarians.

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, Art Ebionites,
on page 29, says of the Ebionites,

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devoted to a life of strictest poverty and
community of goods, they practiced

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vegetarianism.

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From the above references, it is clear
that the Ebionites rejected the

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sacrificial cultists and that they
condemned those who killed animals for

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either sacrifice or in order to set a
feast on their flesh.

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It is also apparent that they rejected the
Christian view on soderiology and blood

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atonement and the use of wine as an emblem
of Jesus' blood, since in their view the

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fall did not originate with Adam but
rather with the watchers who corrupted all

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flesh and introduced men to sacrificial
orgies and the eating of animal flesh.

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There was another major doctrinal
difference between the Ebionites and the

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Paulinists or Catholic Christianity.

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The Church Fathers and later the Bishops
of the Catholic Christianity discarded

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God's law and taught that Jesus abolished
and abrogated the Mosaic laws altogether.

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They maintained that Jesus nailed God's
law to the cross and therefore we are no

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longer obligated to observe it.

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In fact, the Catholic Christianity and
even its offshoots, Protestant

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denominations, insist that those who obey
God's law revealed to Moses on Sinai are

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legalists and in bondage.

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The Ebionites, however, maintain that
every priesthood God originally revealed

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to Moses must be observed and that those
who reject and nullify the commands

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revealed to Moses are apostates from the
law and therefore are not and cannot be

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God's children.

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There seemed to be a contradiction in the
Ebionites' stance towards the law of God.

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On one hand, they rejected many commands
of the Jewish Pentateuch as uninspired and

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in fact of diabolical origin, while on the
other they maintained that every single

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precept of God's law given on Sinai must
not be abrogated or discarded.

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The contradiction altogether disappears
when we realize that the Ebionites

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maintained that the law which God gave
through Moses did not contain all the

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diabolical commands against which they so
vigorously argued.

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They maintained that the law which God
revealed to Moses was the same and

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identical spiritual and universal law
which God originally gave through Adam,

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the true prophet for all humanity.

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The Ebionites insisted that neither God
changes nor His perfect and universal law.

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As far as they were concerned,
only the corrupted commands and forgeries

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in the Jewish Pentateuch must be rejected
and discarded.

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All the true and original precepts which
originates with God must be observed out

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of love and respect towards God and His
will, revealed through His eternal and

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holy law.

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Christian historian Eusebius of the 4th
century confirms the fact that the

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Ebionites of his day emphasized the
so-called Mosaic law, insisting that those

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who reject it and therefore keep on
transgressing God's law are apostates.

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With them, the observance of the law was
altogether necessary, as if they could not

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be saved only by faith in Christ and a
corresponding life.

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Church father Hippolytus wrote that the
Ebionians assert that the world is made by

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the true God.

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They live, however, in all respects
according to the law of Moses,

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alleging that they are thus justified.

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The Anti-Nicene Fathers, Vol.

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5, p.

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147 When Hippolytus says that the
Ebionites lived in all respects according

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to the law of Moses, he does not mean that
they offered sacrifices and killed animals

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in order to eat their flesh.

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Nor does he mean that they practiced
slavery or did some other Mosaic practices

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which, in fact, they abhorred and
condemned.

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He simply means that the Ebionites
embraced the Mosaic law, all the commands

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which they believed and argued originated
with God and are therefore binding on all

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humanity.

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The International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia, Art.

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Ebionites, on pages 9-10, clearly explains
Ebionite position towards the Mosaic law.

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Although strict observance of the law was
enjoined, not all of the law of Moses was

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accepted as valid.

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They held that the true law had been
adulterated by the addition of certain

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falsehoods post-Mosaic in origin.

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These had to be purged, because they
contained doctrines that were actually

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inimicable of Moses' teachings.

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Apostle Peter, in Clementine Homilies,
Hom.

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3, chapters 51-52, explains the Ebionite
position on the law which is based on the

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teachings of Yahshua.

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And also that He, Yahshua, said,
I am not come to destroy the law.

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And yet that He appeared to be destroying
it is the part of one intimating that

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things which He destroyed did not belong
to the law.

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And His saying, The heaven and the earth
shall pass away, but one jot or one tittle

53:53.450 --> 53:58.050
shall not pass from the law, intimated
that things which pass away before the

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heaven and the earth do not belong to the
law in reality.

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Since then, while the heaven and the earth
still stand, sacrifices have passed away,

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and kingdoms, and prophecies among those
who are born of women, and such like as

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not being the ordinances of God.

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Peter clearly explains that Jesus believed
in and in fact upheld the true law which

54:21.090 --> 54:25.530
Moses originally gave and insisted that
His followers must obey every single

54:25.530 --> 54:28.570
command of that law, even those very
least.

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Matthew 5, 17-20 Jesus only condemned and
discarded the commands which did not

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originate with God His Father,
but were rather of diabolical origin,

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written by the lying pen of the scribes.

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Jeremiah 8, 8 In Homily 8, chapter 10,
Peter says of Adam and the original law

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But thus the matter stands, the only good
God, having made all things well,

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and having handed them over to man,
who was made after his image, he who has

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been made breathing of the divinity of him
who made him, being a true prophet,

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and knowing all things, for the honor of
the Father who had given all things to

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him, and for the salvation of the son born
of him, as a genuine father preserving his

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affection towards the children born of
him, and wishing them for their advantage

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to love God and be loved of him.

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Showing them the way which leads to his
friendship, teaching them by which deeds

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of men the one God and Lord of all is
pleased, and having exhibited to them the

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things that are pleasing to him,
appointed a perpetual law to all,

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which neither can be abrogated by enemies,
nor is vitiated by any impious one,

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nor is concealed in any place,
but which can be read by all.

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The Ebionites maintain that the true and
eternal law, with universal implications,

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was originally given through Adam.

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This law was generally observed by the
first seven generations.

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In the days of Enoch, the fallen watchers
introduced wicked and lewd practices,

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and they influenced the vast majority of
humanity to follow in their steps.

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The true law was rejected and the whole
earth was filled with violence.

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All flesh corrupted their original
ordinances and began to kill each other

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and eat one another.

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Noah eventually restored the true and
eternal law, which was later again

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rejected.

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Among Sinai, this true and universal law
was once again restored through Moses.

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However, the law was rejected by the Jews
and Israelites, and they walked in the

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ways of the pagans.

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Jesus finally came as the last and
greatest prophet, the prophet promised in

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Deuteronomy 18, who once again restored
the true and original spiritual law.

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This was the law which the Ebionites
observed and maintained that all humans

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are obligated to obey, especially those
who claimed to be the followers of Jesus.

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Paul was the one who rejected this law and
claimed that Jesus abolished this law,

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and then he nailed it to his cross.

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He argued that salvation was now apart
from the law and was possible only and

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solely through faith in Jesus and his
atoning blood.

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This was the position of Catholic
Christianity and virtually all Protestant

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Christians.

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I found this article on the Ebionites
after I recorded the rest of this stuff,

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so I'm just going to read this off real
quick.

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It's on a blog, religionshistory.blogspot
.com.

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Of course, use your own discernment,
you know, pray to not be deceived and

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everything.

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I'm just reading what I'm studying,
and then there's a lot of links here,

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so I'll leave the link below to this page,
and then you can click on all the links if

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you want to study more.

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First century Christian Ebionites.

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The original Christians?

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1.

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The Nazarenes The very first followers of
Jesus were called the Nazarenes.

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This was a general name for the Jewish
followers of Christ, but it is unknown to

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what extent they were actually Christian.

57:39.710 --> 57:44.090
They must have known and understood many
aspects of Jesus, who spoke Aramaic like

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the Nazarenes, which are now lost and
misunderstood.

57:47.210 --> 57:52.550
From 70 CE, cataclysmic events led to the
Nazarenes being dispersed and broken,

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which led to their demise, except for a
brief resurgence in the second century.

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They were eclipsed by Roman converts to
Christ, by the Pauline Christians mostly.

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Many Gentiles already called the Nazarenes
Christians, but we still know little about

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them.

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The Ebionites are more distinct and had
one of the first Christian documents,

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the Gospel Matthew.

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All Christians were sometimes called
Ebionites, although later Christians moved

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so far from their roots that they came to
no longer recognize them.

58:23.530 --> 58:23.830
2.

58:23.950 --> 58:28.990
Ebionites Initially a sect of Judaism,
Christianity first organized itself in

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Jerusalem.

58:29.750 --> 58:34.030
However, although Jewish Christianity was
dominant at first, within 20 years it had

58:34.030 --> 58:36.790
moved out into the Gentile, non-Jewish
world.

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Encyclopedia of New Religions,
Christopher Partridge, 2004.

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2.1.

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The First Recognized Christians in
Antiquity The first Christians were the

58:46.090 --> 58:48.250
Jews, who believed that Jesus was the
Jewish Messiah.

58:48.730 --> 58:52.950
They used an early Gospel Matthew,
and their beliefs are in accordance with

58:52.950 --> 58:57.010
the earliest reports of the Gospels of
Luke and Matthew, and with Jewish

58:57.010 --> 58:57.450
prophecy.

58:58.690 --> 59:03.930
The term Ebionite was first a common name
for all Christians, as Epiphanius

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testifies, and it was used by the
Christian bishop, Irenaeus of Lyons,

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Gaul, in the late 2nd century to designate
a Jewish Christian sect.

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Although some later Christians thought
that it came from a person called Ebion,

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this is not the correct root of the word.

59:20.970 --> 59:26.470
Ebionites may mean austere ones,
but the origin of the term is obscure.

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2.2.

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Ebionite Beliefs The Ebionites justified
all their beliefs by the example of Jesus

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himself.

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He was circumcised, observed the Sabbath,
and celebrated the Jewish festivals,

59:38.070 --> 59:40.490
and taught that all the precepts of the
law should be observed.

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The Ebionite Christians believed that
Jesus was the Jewish Messiah sent from the

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Jewish God to the Jewish people,
in fulfillment of the Jewish scriptures.

59:49.610 --> 59:53.890
They also believed that to belong to the
people of God, one needed to be Jewish.

59:54.810 --> 59:58.910
As a result, they insisted on observing
the Sabbath, keeping kosher, and

59:58.910 --> 01:00:00.110
circumcising all males.

01:00:00.110 --> 01:00:05.010
An early source, Irenaeus, also reports
that the Ebionites continued reverence to

01:00:05.010 --> 01:00:09.070
Jerusalem, evidently by praying in its
direction during their daily acts of

01:00:09.070 --> 01:00:09.330
worship.

01:00:10.410 --> 01:00:14.910
Their insistence on staying, or becoming,
Jewish should not seem especially peculiar

01:00:14.910 --> 01:00:18.550
from a historical perspective since Jesus
and his disciples were Jewish.

01:00:19.070 --> 01:00:22.650
But the Ebionites' Jewishness did not
endear them to most other Christians,

01:00:23.010 --> 01:00:26.170
who believed that Jesus allowed them to
bypass the requirements of the law for

01:00:26.170 --> 01:00:26.570
salvation.

01:00:26.570 --> 01:00:30.470
The Ebionites, however, maintained that
their views were authorized by the

01:00:30.470 --> 01:00:34.370
original disciples, especially by Peter
and Jesus' own brother, James,

01:00:34.710 --> 01:00:37.310
head of the Jerusalem church after the
resurrection.

01:00:38.010 --> 01:00:41.110
Last Christianites, by Bart Ehrman,
2003.

01:00:42.330 --> 01:00:43.070
2.3.

01:00:43.670 --> 01:00:44.270
Adoptionism.

01:00:44.890 --> 01:00:49.170
Christian Adoptionism and the Baptism of
Jesus Christ, Centuries of Belief Before

01:00:49.170 --> 01:00:52.130
the Trinity, by Vexen Crabtree,
2011.

01:00:52.610 --> 01:00:56.370
The Birth of Jesus and the Christmas
Story, Pagan and Unhistorical,

01:00:56.490 --> 01:00:58.070
by Vexen Crabtree, 2014.

01:00:59.250 --> 01:01:01.090
The Ebionites were Adoptionists.

01:01:01.810 --> 01:01:05.150
The very first Christians, the Ebionites,
Nazareans, Gnostic Christians,

01:01:05.270 --> 01:01:06.810
and others, were all Adoptionists.

01:01:07.350 --> 01:01:10.790
In accordance with the first hundred years
of Christian belief and with the oldest

01:01:10.790 --> 01:01:15.130
manuscripts of the Bible, Jesus was born
in a normal way, like the rest of us,

01:01:15.270 --> 01:01:18.810
to his parents, Joseph and Mary,
from the line of David as prophesied.

01:01:19.550 --> 01:01:25.110
Jesus kept God's laws so well that on his
baptism, God adopted him as his son and

01:01:25.110 --> 01:01:31.090
sent him to the cross as a truly innocent,
perfect sacrifice to atone for the sins of

01:01:31.090 --> 01:01:34.110
all mankind to fulfill promises made in
the Jewish scriptures.

01:01:35.390 --> 01:01:39.330
God signaled to the world that this
sacrifice had been accepted by raising

01:01:39.330 --> 01:01:42.290
Jesus from the dead and raising him up
directly into heaven.

01:01:42.290 --> 01:01:46.830
The doctrine of the virgin birth,
so popular amongst Roman mystery religions

01:01:46.830 --> 01:01:50.310
and paganism at the time, was never
accepted by Adoptionists.

01:01:50.950 --> 01:01:55.710
It was only hundreds of years later when
the concept of the Trinity was codified by

01:01:55.710 --> 01:01:59.870
the Pauline Cappadocian Christians,
the Adoptionist beliefs became condemned.

01:02:00.630 --> 01:02:03.730
Yet, it represented the truer and original
form of Christian belief.

01:02:04.550 --> 01:02:08.170
The Crucifixion Facade, by Vexen Crabtree,
2002.

01:02:08.170 --> 01:02:12.910
In Pauline Christianity, Jesus died for
rather mystical reasons.

01:02:13.410 --> 01:02:17.410
It does not make sense to state that Jesus
died so that people could know Jesus as

01:02:17.410 --> 01:02:20.550
people such as Moses existed before Jesus
died on the cross.

01:02:21.490 --> 01:02:25.590
Nor does it make sense to say that Jesus
died so God could forgive or lower the

01:02:25.590 --> 01:02:26.310
wages of sin.

01:02:26.850 --> 01:02:29.410
God could do that whatever it pleased.

01:02:30.610 --> 01:02:33.450
Evianite Christianity did not suffer these
problems.

01:02:34.170 --> 01:02:38.230
Animal sacrifices were made to God,
but were never perfect.

01:02:38.770 --> 01:02:44.350
Only when finally a human who followed the
law perfectly sacrificed himself was the

01:02:44.350 --> 01:02:48.310
ultimate sacrifice made, thus ending the
need for routine animal sacrifices.

01:02:48.870 --> 01:02:53.010
This simple and old Christian belief makes
a lot of sense, without managing to

01:02:53.010 --> 01:02:56.670
introduce further complexities or
scriptural contradictions, whereas the

01:02:56.670 --> 01:03:00.350
Christianity we know today struggles to
explain why Jesus was sacrificed at all.

01:03:00.350 --> 01:03:05.150
I'll link Scripture Thoroughly and Clearly
Endorses Adoptionism, see the verses here.

01:03:06.750 --> 01:03:09.030
And there's a link, like I said,
you can check those out.

01:03:09.610 --> 01:03:13.430
I find it interesting that the previous
stuff that I read to you says that the

01:03:13.430 --> 01:03:17.450
Evianites did not believe that there
should be any sacrifices, and yet this

01:03:17.450 --> 01:03:21.150
person is saying that the Evianites did
believe in sacrifices, but until you

01:03:21.150 --> 01:03:26.710
sacrificed yourself, then the other
sacrifices would be taken away.

01:03:27.650 --> 01:03:32.870
I also find it interesting that the Holy
Spirit has led me to read the Bible and

01:03:32.870 --> 01:03:35.650
understand that we are supposed to be the
living sacrifices.

01:03:35.970 --> 01:03:39.750
We are supposed to be following after
Jesus' own footsteps and be living

01:03:39.750 --> 01:03:40.990
sacrifices every day.

01:03:41.330 --> 01:03:44.190
We sacrifice our fleshy will and do God's
will instead.

01:03:44.830 --> 01:03:49.170
So, that actually falls in line with what
this is saying about us being the

01:03:49.170 --> 01:03:51.390
sacrifices instead of animals being the
sacrifices.

01:03:56.210 --> 01:03:56.930
Continuing on...

01:04:08.490 --> 01:04:08.850
So,

01:04:12.130 --> 01:04:12.950
then you can click on that.

01:04:32.290 --> 01:04:38.090
The Evianites repeatedly condemned Paul as
his preachings gained support because of

01:04:38.090 --> 01:04:42.450
his denigration of Jewish law,
and the Evianites considered all of his

01:04:42.450 --> 01:04:44.810
writings to be dangerous sources of sinful
living.

01:04:45.350 --> 01:04:49.230
Indeed, for them, Paul was not just wrong
about a few minor points.

01:04:49.230 --> 01:04:54.230
He was the archenemy, the heretic who had
led so many astray by saying that you

01:04:54.230 --> 01:04:58.530
could be saved even without keeping the
Jewish law, and who forbade circumcision.

01:04:59.710 --> 01:05:03.630
Other Christian groups arose who rejected
the Jewish foundation of Christianity.

01:05:04.130 --> 01:05:07.750
Bart Ehrman and Lost Christianities
provide the detailed description of the

01:05:07.750 --> 01:05:10.010
history of many early Christian groups.

01:05:10.650 --> 01:05:15.490
We know of Christian groups taking stands
on Judaism that were at polar ends of the

01:05:15.490 --> 01:05:15.770
spectrum.

01:05:15.770 --> 01:05:20.510
Some groups insisting that the Jewish law
was to be followed for salvation,

01:05:20.730 --> 01:05:23.890
and others insisting that the Jewish law
could not be followed if one wanted

01:05:23.890 --> 01:05:24.310
salvation.

01:05:25.010 --> 01:05:28.310
All of these groups claim to be
representing the views of Jesus himself.

01:05:28.550 --> 01:05:30.970
Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman,
2008.

01:05:35.810 --> 01:05:40.110
The success and popularity of these groups
caused the Evianites to be eclipsed,

01:05:40.250 --> 01:05:43.170
and the beginnings of the Pauline
Christianity as we know it today

01:05:43.170 --> 01:05:43.590
flourished.

01:05:43.590 --> 01:05:47.850
This developing church and its founders
largely forgot and rejected the Jewish

01:05:47.850 --> 01:05:48.810
roots of their religion.

01:05:49.310 --> 01:05:52.630
But curious Christians later wanted to
know things that they did not know.

01:05:52.930 --> 01:05:54.370
For example, when was Jesus born?

01:05:54.790 --> 01:05:55.650
And when did he die?

01:05:56.110 --> 01:05:57.470
So they went in search of their past.

01:05:58.510 --> 01:06:05.330
Indeed, when in 160, Bishop Mobito of
Sardis went to Judea to discover what had

01:06:05.330 --> 01:06:08.550
become of the legendary Jerusalem church,
to his dismay, he found not the

01:06:08.550 --> 01:06:11.930
descendants of the apostles, but instead a
small group of Christians who called

01:06:11.930 --> 01:06:17.170
themselves the Evianites, or poor men,
who had their own gospel of the Evianites,

01:06:17.250 --> 01:06:20.250
and also a gospel of the Hebrews,
a gospel of the Twelve Apostles,

01:06:20.430 --> 01:06:21.730
and a gospel of the Nazarene.

01:06:22.210 --> 01:06:25.530
All of these gospels differed
significantly from the gospels of the New

01:06:25.530 --> 01:06:25.870
Testament.

01:06:26.430 --> 01:06:30.030
The Jewish Mysteries by Timothy Freak and
Peter Gandy, 1999.

01:06:30.030 --> 01:06:35.270
This is not the only time that church
elders went in search of their history

01:06:35.270 --> 01:06:38.650
only to discover that what they found was
not what they expected.

01:06:39.310 --> 01:06:43.510
They did not realize that over time their
religion had changed, the same as with all

01:06:43.510 --> 01:06:45.330
other religious groups in history.

01:06:45.810 --> 01:06:48.870
They discovered that the beliefs of the
early Evianite Christians differed from

01:06:48.870 --> 01:06:51.350
those of their own developing church.

01:06:52.590 --> 01:06:53.070
3.

01:06:53.250 --> 01:06:58.170
The Gospel of Matthew About the Gospel of
Matthew on holybooks.info, there is a

01:06:58.170 --> 01:06:58.350
link.

01:06:59.170 --> 01:07:02.230
The Gospel of Matthew became the first
book of the New Testament.

01:07:02.770 --> 01:07:04.470
Here are some important facts about it.

01:07:04.970 --> 01:07:05.910
Time of Authorship.

01:07:06.130 --> 01:07:10.430
The Gospel of Matthew was written about
the fall of the Jewish Temple in 70 CE in

01:07:10.430 --> 01:07:14.330
Syria, probably at around the same time as
the Gospel of Luke was written,

01:07:14.730 --> 01:07:16.570
as they were unaware of each other's
writings.

01:07:17.250 --> 01:07:22.030
And almost definitely written before 100
CE, the first two chapters of Matthew,

01:07:22.110 --> 01:07:26.470
the virgin birth and the genealogy,
were not contained in the first version of

01:07:26.470 --> 01:07:28.510
Matthew's Gospel and were added at a later
date.

01:07:29.810 --> 01:07:30.510
A copy of Mark.

01:07:30.830 --> 01:07:33.910
Matthew's Gospel contains 92% of the text
of Mark.

01:07:34.450 --> 01:07:37.890
This is almost a copy, but Matthew
corrected many of Mark's blunders about

01:07:37.890 --> 01:07:38.850
Jewish ways of life.

01:07:39.230 --> 01:07:39.970
There is a link there.

01:07:40.430 --> 01:07:44.430
And proceeded a few versions later to add
the chapters about the virgin birth.

01:07:45.250 --> 01:07:50.470
Matthew also uses a source that historians
call Q, a completely unidentified source

01:07:50.470 --> 01:07:54.850
who was supposedly an original disciple of
Christ or a friend of Paul, none of whose

01:07:54.850 --> 01:07:59.430
work has survived, but which was quoted,
copied, used by Matthew and Luke.

01:08:00.730 --> 01:08:01.250
Anonymous.

01:08:01.730 --> 01:08:06.250
It was not until about 150 CE that the
author of Matthew was assigned to the

01:08:06.250 --> 01:08:06.570
writing.

01:08:06.570 --> 01:08:13.130
In traditional pseudo-pyrographic fashion,
the author was based on a historic

01:08:13.130 --> 01:08:18.590
character, in this case on Matai,
a disciple of Yaishu ben Tanfira,

01:08:19.150 --> 01:08:24.610
who lived in Hashemonian times,
and whose story has many similarities to

01:08:24.610 --> 01:08:25.390
that of Jesus.

01:08:25.670 --> 01:08:27.430
See the link there if you want to.

01:08:28.150 --> 01:08:29.990
Not written by an eyewitness of Jesus.

01:08:30.130 --> 01:08:32.270
We know this because it is a copy of Mark.

01:08:32.270 --> 01:08:37.410
No eyewitness of such an important person
would have needed or wanted to simply copy

01:08:37.410 --> 01:08:38.790
someone else's memories about him.

01:08:39.850 --> 01:08:42.730
Matthew staked his writing career on the
fact that Jesus was a great man,

01:08:43.170 --> 01:08:44.330
divine, and a messiah.

01:08:44.790 --> 01:08:47.410
He set out in his writings to prove that
Jesus was all these things.

01:08:47.870 --> 01:08:50.650
The first two chapters of Matthew,
the virgin birth and genealogy,

01:08:50.810 --> 01:08:57.370
were not contained in the first version of
Matthew's gospel, but were added later by

01:08:57.370 --> 01:08:58.130
an unknown editor.

01:08:58.130 --> 01:09:01.530
The Ebionites had a very early version of
the gospel of Matthew.

01:09:02.270 --> 01:09:06.690
There were many versions and editions of
the gospels in the early years of

01:09:06.690 --> 01:09:07.110
Christianity.

01:09:07.810 --> 01:09:11.930
The Ebionites, being such an early group
of Christians, had access to the earlier,

01:09:12.130 --> 01:09:13.370
less edited version of Matthew.

01:09:15.030 --> 01:09:19.510
Their own version of Matthew, however,
may have been a translation of the text

01:09:19.510 --> 01:09:20.310
into Aramaic.

01:09:20.730 --> 01:09:24.290
Jesus himself spoke Aramaic in Palestine,
as did his earliest followers.

01:09:24.290 --> 01:09:28.170
So it makes sense that a group of Jewish
followers of Jesus that originated in

01:09:28.170 --> 01:09:31.810
Palestine would continue to cite his words
and stories about him in his native

01:09:31.810 --> 01:09:32.150
tongue.

01:09:32.690 --> 01:09:36.690
It appears likely that this Aramaic
Matthew was somewhat different from the

01:09:36.690 --> 01:09:37.810
Matthew now in the canon.

01:09:38.270 --> 01:09:42.330
In particular, the Matthew used by
Ebionite Christians would have lacked the

01:09:42.330 --> 01:09:46.250
first two chapters which narrate Jesus'
birth to a virgin, a notion that the

01:09:46.250 --> 01:09:47.450
Ebionite Christians rejected.

01:09:47.450 --> 01:09:52.390
There were doubtless other differences
from our own version of Matthew's gospel

01:09:52.390 --> 01:09:52.710
as well.

01:09:52.790 --> 01:09:55.150
Lost Christianity by Bart Forman,
2003.

01:09:56.270 --> 01:09:56.910
Number four.

01:09:57.410 --> 01:10:00.830
Pauline Christians edited the gospels to
make the Ebionites look wrong.

01:10:01.390 --> 01:10:05.570
Early scribes were not beyond editing the
text in order to prove their own views or

01:10:05.570 --> 01:10:06.830
to disprove the views of others.

01:10:07.210 --> 01:10:10.910
When the later Pauline Christians went in
search of their own history and discovered

01:10:10.910 --> 01:10:14.270
the Ebionites, they found that their
Jewish and Adoptionist beliefs were

01:10:14.270 --> 01:10:15.150
different than their own.

01:10:15.150 --> 01:10:18.690
They could not accept that they were the
ones who had deviated from the truth.

01:10:19.190 --> 01:10:22.290
So, first they set out to discredit and
disprove the Ebionites in literature.

01:10:22.830 --> 01:10:24.830
Secondly, they burnt all the Ebionites'
books.

01:10:25.710 --> 01:10:27.190
Luke was edited in three places.

01:10:27.710 --> 01:10:32.910
Luke 2.33 and Luke 2.48 both contain
verses that state that Joseph was Jesus'

01:10:33.090 --> 01:10:33.410
father.

01:10:33.970 --> 01:10:36.730
At least, that is what is said in the
older manuscripts.

01:10:37.410 --> 01:10:41.210
Verses such as Luke 2.33 supported
Ebionite Christians' belief in

01:10:41.210 --> 01:10:41.810
Adoptionism.

01:10:42.770 --> 01:10:48.110
Strangely, in some later manuscripts,
Luke 2.33 and Luke 2.48 both had the word

01:10:48.110 --> 01:10:52.450
Father edited out, although over half of
our Bibles today have thankfully reverted

01:10:52.450 --> 01:10:53.410
to the original version.

01:10:54.070 --> 01:11:00.150
Luke 3.22, where God clearly says that He
is adopting Jesus, was also edited so that

01:11:00.150 --> 01:11:01.050
it did not say so.

01:11:01.730 --> 01:11:05.530
This is one proto-Orthodox alteration that
proved remarkably successful.

01:11:06.010 --> 01:11:09.450
Even though the potentially dangerous,
heretical form of the text is found in

01:11:09.450 --> 01:11:13.690
virtually all of our oldest witnesses,
it is the altered form of the text that is

01:11:13.690 --> 01:11:17.190
found in the majority of surviving
manuscripts and reproduced in most of our

01:11:17.190 --> 01:11:18.010
English translations.

01:11:18.970 --> 01:11:20.630
There are a couple of links here.

01:11:21.310 --> 01:11:28.210
Later editors mistranslated Isaiah 7.14 in
the Septuagint and handily turned the

01:11:28.210 --> 01:11:32.090
prophecy that a young woman would have a
child to a prophecy that a virgin would

01:11:32.090 --> 01:11:32.590
have a child.

01:11:32.890 --> 01:11:35.930
This was used heavily in the debate
against the Ebionites and other

01:11:35.930 --> 01:11:37.150
Adoptionists by later Christians.

01:11:38.010 --> 01:11:38.310
5.

01:11:38.950 --> 01:11:43.330
Conclusion and the Demise of the Ebionites
The Ebionites were some of the original

01:11:43.330 --> 01:11:45.950
Christians, Jews who believed that Jesus
was Messiah.

01:11:46.410 --> 01:11:48.650
They populated the legendary Jerusalem
church.

01:11:48.990 --> 01:11:51.990
Ebionite was sometimes used as a term to
describe all Christians.

01:11:52.850 --> 01:11:56.470
Those who we now know of as Pauline
Christians opposed the Ebionites,

01:11:56.590 --> 01:11:59.430
after discovering them and realizing that
their beliefs differed.

01:11:59.770 --> 01:12:03.650
Authors such as Tertullian or Ginnida
Alexandria and many other intolerant

01:12:03.650 --> 01:12:06.130
heresy hunters wrote at great length
against the Ebionites.

01:12:06.130 --> 01:12:09.750
Many of the claims made against them were
based on misunderstandings of their

01:12:09.750 --> 01:12:12.930
beliefs, and many anti-Ebionite claims
were plainly ridiculous.

01:12:13.550 --> 01:12:16.530
Pauline Christians eradicated the
Ebionites, burning all of their books,

01:12:16.790 --> 01:12:20.370
none survived, and harassing and arresting
the people until none were left.

01:12:20.770 --> 01:12:25.310
They edited Luke 2.33 and Luke 2.48 where
Joseph was twice called the father of

01:12:25.310 --> 01:12:29.550
Jesus so that it did not say so,
and they also edited Luke 3.22 where it

01:12:29.550 --> 01:12:33.010
plainly stated in accordance with Ebionite
beliefs that God adopted Jesus.

01:12:33.010 --> 01:12:37.770
Pauline Christians, as non-Jewish Romans,
handily came across a mistranslated

01:12:37.770 --> 01:12:41.950
prophecy that said Jesus would be born of
a virgin, like other Roman sons of God,

01:12:42.310 --> 01:12:45.350
adding a whole two chapters to the
beginning of Matthew to prove their point.

01:12:45.790 --> 01:12:49.790
These edits, when they were uncovered,
have shown that the Ebionites were treated

01:12:49.790 --> 01:12:54.150
very cruelly and unfairly, and that the
original readings of Matthew and Luke both

01:12:54.150 --> 01:12:58.610
support Ebionite Christianity,
rather than the Pauline Christianity that

01:12:58.610 --> 01:12:59.570
the West has inherited.

01:13:00.130 --> 01:13:04.070
If we were to guess which group was the
more austere, holy and godly, we would

01:13:04.070 --> 01:13:07.090
have to guess it was the Ebionites rather
than the Pauline Christians, who

01:13:07.090 --> 01:13:08.930
slaughtered, slandered, and oppressed
them.

01:13:09.410 --> 01:13:12.630
Unfortunately, the victors get to write
history, and it is Pauline Christianity

01:13:12.630 --> 01:13:14.730
that became the legacy of the Roman
Empire.

01:13:15.190 --> 01:13:17.710
After the 4th century, the Ebionites were
vanquished.

01:13:19.190 --> 01:13:23.530
I'm now going to play a video,
this is a mirror of somebody else's video,

01:13:23.790 --> 01:13:26.810
and I'll leave the link below.

01:13:27.410 --> 01:13:28.510
Nazarene Acts playlist.

01:13:28.770 --> 01:13:32.750
That's where you can find everything that
he's going to get into, because at the end

01:13:32.750 --> 01:13:35.530
of this video, then he's going to get into
the next videos.

01:13:35.830 --> 01:13:39.690
And if you're as interested as I am,
then you might want to check it out.

01:13:40.330 --> 01:13:43.930
So I put them all in a playlist,
and like I said, the link will be below.

01:13:44.710 --> 01:13:48.310
The channel is David H.

01:13:50.050 --> 01:13:50.530
Natsari.

01:13:51.670 --> 01:13:54.370
Sorry if I didn't pronounce the name very
well.

01:13:55.050 --> 01:13:59.490
But the link will be below, like I said,
and you can check out his channel and that

01:13:59.490 --> 01:13:59.870
playlist.

01:14:02.210 --> 01:14:05.490
And he discusses the Nazarene Acts.

01:14:05.830 --> 01:14:06.670
It's a book.

01:14:07.190 --> 01:14:10.030
And if you guys want to check out the
book, the link will be below.

01:14:11.430 --> 01:14:12.870
There's a PDF for it.

01:14:13.370 --> 01:14:20.250
And on that webpage, there's also a book
of Enoch and another book, which I haven't

01:14:20.250 --> 01:14:21.270
looked at any of these things.

01:14:23.050 --> 01:14:29.970
So anyway, I put together the playlist
from this channel, and I haven't watched

01:14:29.970 --> 01:14:31.070
everything, obviously.

01:14:32.350 --> 01:14:35.630
I just put it together because I watched
the first video, which is the

01:14:35.630 --> 01:14:39.410
introduction, and then I wanted to watch
the next video, so I put it in a playlist.

01:14:39.410 --> 01:14:40.890
I didn't realize how many there were.

01:14:41.050 --> 01:14:41.510
There's a lot.

01:14:43.310 --> 01:14:46.570
And I clicked on one random video,
so I did watch one of the videos in the

01:14:46.570 --> 01:14:50.170
playlist concerning the virgin birth.

01:14:50.830 --> 01:14:54.950
He says, the Ebionites did not believe in
the virgin birth, but the Nazarenes did

01:14:54.950 --> 01:14:56.310
believe in the virgin birth.

01:14:58.230 --> 01:15:01.010
So anyway, he does give some commentary on
things.

01:15:01.250 --> 01:15:03.590
I don't know what he's going to say in all
the videos.

01:15:03.690 --> 01:15:04.690
I mean, I haven't watched them.

01:15:04.690 --> 01:15:09.190
I'm just doing this to study, and I hope
that you guys also study to show

01:15:09.190 --> 01:15:10.490
yourselves approved to God.

01:15:11.050 --> 01:15:15.590
We are supposed to test everything and
hold fast to what is true.

01:15:16.650 --> 01:15:21.730
And basically, I'm just being led to
study, study, study, like I studied the

01:15:21.730 --> 01:15:22.630
Trinity last year.

01:15:23.190 --> 01:15:27.950
So I'm just kind of in that pattern right
now of studying, and so I can't be firm on

01:15:27.950 --> 01:15:29.470
what I know and what I don't know.

01:15:29.470 --> 01:15:35.170
I just find it interesting that this past
year, I was led to vegetarianism.

01:15:35.450 --> 01:15:39.090
I was led to following the law,
the Moses law.

01:15:40.110 --> 01:15:45.230
I know the Bible says that in the end
times, we're going to remember ye the law

01:15:45.230 --> 01:15:45.690
of Moses.

01:15:48.470 --> 01:15:51.810
So I just think it's interesting,
some of the stuff that lines up.

01:15:53.150 --> 01:15:56.710
Obviously, I was led to find out Jesus
wasn't God, because I always believed he

01:15:56.710 --> 01:15:58.470
was before this past year.

01:15:58.810 --> 01:16:02.710
So I just find it interesting.

01:16:04.770 --> 01:16:07.270
I'm going to spend some time, I think,
watching the playlist.

01:16:09.170 --> 01:16:11.810
You can also check out the PDF,
like I said, it's free.

01:16:12.850 --> 01:16:14.970
So if you want to check that out,
you can.

01:16:16.670 --> 01:16:17.310
Shalom.

01:16:17.770 --> 01:16:22.170
Today we're going to be talking about a
document known as the Recognitions of

01:16:22.170 --> 01:16:22.490
Clement.

01:16:23.370 --> 01:16:30.610
It's also gone by the name of the Nazarene
Acts of the Apostles, or the Teachings of

01:16:30.610 --> 01:16:30.950
Peter.

01:16:31.590 --> 01:16:34.470
I've also seen it referred to as the
Travels of Peter.

01:16:36.370 --> 01:16:39.290
So, I'm going to start off by asking a
question.

01:16:39.390 --> 01:16:42.290
Have you ever wondered this question?

01:16:43.750 --> 01:16:45.470
What about the twelve apostles?

01:16:46.130 --> 01:16:47.370
What happened to them?

01:16:48.210 --> 01:16:50.030
Why don't we know anything about them,
really?

01:16:50.470 --> 01:16:56.450
We have apostle lists in the New
Testament, in the Gospels, that tell us

01:16:56.450 --> 01:17:00.670
how Yeshua personally hand-picked his
apostles.

01:17:00.910 --> 01:17:05.930
He went throughout the countryside of
Judea and Galilee, and he found these

01:17:05.930 --> 01:17:11.650
particular men that he picked out to be
his apostles, his sent ones.

01:17:11.650 --> 01:17:17.750
And they were to go out and teach his
doctrine and his gospel to the nations.

01:17:18.450 --> 01:17:20.930
But we don't know a whole lot about them.

01:17:22.270 --> 01:17:23.810
We know a lot about Paul.

01:17:24.450 --> 01:17:26.210
We've got a bunch of letters from Paul.

01:17:26.530 --> 01:17:27.450
Very long letters.

01:17:28.990 --> 01:17:32.760
But the only thing we have from the actual
twelve is...

01:17:33.730 --> 01:17:37.450
We've got some very short epistles from
John.

01:17:38.250 --> 01:17:40.210
We've got one epistle from James.

01:17:40.850 --> 01:17:47.430
We've got two from Peter, although 2 Peter
is widely regarded not to have been

01:17:47.430 --> 01:17:48.170
written by Peter.

01:17:48.790 --> 01:17:53.330
And that belief goes back as far as the
200's AD.

01:17:53.890 --> 01:17:59.630
So it's not a new doctrine or anything
that atheist scholars have come up with.

01:17:59.650 --> 01:18:03.650
It's something that the church was saying
1,800 years ago.

01:18:04.010 --> 01:18:05.970
That 2 Peter was not genuine.

01:18:07.090 --> 01:18:10.250
We have the book of Revelation which is
written by John.

01:18:10.550 --> 01:18:13.050
But for the most part we don't have a
whole lot.

01:18:14.230 --> 01:18:15.550
We don't know much about them.

01:18:16.870 --> 01:18:23.690
We don't really know where they went aside
from some Catholic histories that may or

01:18:23.690 --> 01:18:24.430
may not be true.

01:18:25.850 --> 01:18:29.970
But when it comes to really understanding
their doctrine and what did Yeshua...

01:18:30.750 --> 01:18:33.770
What was the message that Yeshua gave them
to preach?

01:18:34.850 --> 01:18:36.670
All we really have is Paul.

01:18:38.670 --> 01:18:41.070
So, why don't we know much about them?

01:18:42.170 --> 01:18:47.590
Well, for one reason, the original
followers of Yeshua were not Christian.

01:18:48.890 --> 01:18:51.550
They were, some people say, Jewish.

01:18:51.970 --> 01:18:57.930
Although, what exactly Jewish means today
is much different than what Jewish may

01:18:57.930 --> 01:19:00.670
have meant 2,000 years ago.

01:19:01.510 --> 01:19:04.670
They were Hebraic, certainly.

01:19:05.590 --> 01:19:06.890
They kept the Torah.

01:19:07.050 --> 01:19:08.730
They kept the commandments of Elohim.

01:19:09.650 --> 01:19:11.690
And they had the testimony of Yeshua.

01:19:13.610 --> 01:19:17.050
But the church, the church itself,
rejects the Torah.

01:19:17.970 --> 01:19:19.990
Now, they do keep the testimony of Yeshua.

01:19:21.090 --> 01:19:26.050
However, they teach that his testimony had
to do in a way with the law and freeing us

01:19:26.050 --> 01:19:28.690
from the burden of Yeshua's father's
commandments.

01:19:30.010 --> 01:19:33.810
But, that wasn't the doctrine that was
taught by the original followers of

01:19:33.810 --> 01:19:34.130
Yeshua.

01:19:35.430 --> 01:19:37.030
So, what name did they go by?

01:19:38.710 --> 01:19:43.530
Well, most people in the Hebraic Roots
Movement knows that they went by the title

01:19:43.530 --> 01:19:44.670
of the Nazarenes.

01:19:47.310 --> 01:19:52.470
But that's not the only cognomen that they
answer to.

01:19:53.330 --> 01:19:57.630
They were known as followers of the Way.

01:19:59.370 --> 01:20:02.270
They called themselves the Sons of Light.

01:20:03.730 --> 01:20:07.450
They saw themselves as the Sons of
Righteousness.

01:20:09.090 --> 01:20:14.230
Incidentally, many of the same titles that
the earliest followers of Yeshua went by

01:20:14.230 --> 01:20:19.490
is also the same titles that the group
that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls called

01:20:19.490 --> 01:20:20.070
themselves.

01:20:21.010 --> 01:20:23.230
And I believe there's a reason for that.

01:20:24.690 --> 01:20:28.330
Because the scrolls themselves,
the Dead Sea Scrolls, the secretarian

01:20:28.330 --> 01:20:34.470
works contained there, were most likely
written by the original apostles and their

01:20:34.470 --> 01:20:35.810
immediate disciples.

01:20:36.650 --> 01:20:40.670
There's a teacher of righteousness that's
mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

01:20:41.150 --> 01:20:44.090
And there's lots of theories as to who
exactly he is.

01:20:44.090 --> 01:20:50.730
But there's only one person in history
that they absolutely fit perfectly based

01:20:50.730 --> 01:20:53.090
upon all the information we know about
this person.

01:20:53.850 --> 01:20:56.510
And that person is James, the brother of
Yeshua.

01:20:57.990 --> 01:21:03.870
And it's highly likely that the teacher of
righteousness was, in fact, the brother of

01:21:03.870 --> 01:21:04.310
the Master.

01:21:05.510 --> 01:21:07.730
So why don't we know more about these
twelve apostles?

01:21:08.050 --> 01:21:09.330
What other names do they go by?

01:21:10.390 --> 01:21:13.290
Well, the one I want to focus on today is
the Ebionites.

01:21:13.290 --> 01:21:16.730
Or, in English, it would be the poor.

01:21:18.130 --> 01:21:20.690
Ebionim being the Hebrew word for poor.

01:21:21.530 --> 01:21:25.090
The Ebionites, we don't know a whole lot
about them.

01:21:25.990 --> 01:21:30.350
Most of the information that we have comes
from heresiologists.

01:21:30.830 --> 01:21:38.690
They were men that wrote against the
groups that believed in Yeshua who were

01:21:38.690 --> 01:21:39.770
not part of the church.

01:21:40.610 --> 01:21:45.090
So basically, for instance, we've got a
lot of information about the Ebionites

01:21:45.090 --> 01:21:51.230
from a church historian known as
Epiphanius in his work, the Panarion.

01:21:52.290 --> 01:21:58.290
Now, keep in mind, Epiphanius was a...
essentially, he was a company man.

01:21:58.790 --> 01:22:04.750
He was a Catholic, or at least he was a
member of the church that eventually

01:22:04.750 --> 01:22:06.690
evolved into the Catholic Church.

01:22:06.690 --> 01:22:14.590
The purpose of his writing was not
necessarily to teach truth so much as it

01:22:14.590 --> 01:22:16.690
was to protect the orthodoxy.

01:22:17.770 --> 01:22:23.410
And so, in his writings, anything that
does not fit with the official church line

01:22:23.410 --> 01:22:27.250
or the official church doctrine,
in his mind, is a heresy.

01:22:27.970 --> 01:22:30.090
So, I'm going to read through some of his
quotes.

01:22:30.270 --> 01:22:34.170
He has an extensive chapter on the
Ebionites in his book.

01:22:34.170 --> 01:22:37.490
But I'm just going to go over a few key
pieces of information.

01:22:38.190 --> 01:22:42.030
Mostly because if we go through too much
of this information, it's hard to really

01:22:42.030 --> 01:22:44.850
understand what he's writing about.

01:22:44.970 --> 01:22:49.850
Because in his writings, he is trying so
hard to demonize this group.

01:22:50.510 --> 01:22:52.250
But he makes several key admissions.

01:22:53.430 --> 01:22:56.990
Now, you'll notice here, this is the
beginning of chapter 30 of the Panarion.

01:22:58.330 --> 01:23:00.370
Chapter 29 was about the Nazarenes.

01:23:01.070 --> 01:23:04.670
So, he's flowing right into the Ebionites.

01:23:04.830 --> 01:23:09.390
And he says at the beginning of the
chapter, Following these, which is the

01:23:09.390 --> 01:23:14.390
Nazarenes, and holding views like theirs,
Ebion, the founder of the Ebionites,

01:23:14.550 --> 01:23:19.170
arose in the world in his turn as a
monstrosity with many forms, and

01:23:19.170 --> 01:23:23.730
practically represented on himself the
snake-like form of the mythical

01:23:23.730 --> 01:23:25.230
many-headed Hydra.

01:23:25.230 --> 01:23:30.270
He was of the Nazarene school,
but preached and taught other things than

01:23:30.270 --> 01:23:30.510
they.

01:23:30.870 --> 01:23:39.010
So, right away you see the tone of his
letter, or his book, is completely against

01:23:39.010 --> 01:23:40.190
the Ebionites.

01:23:40.490 --> 01:23:48.950
He calls this person, their founder Ebion,
a snake like a many-headed Hydra.

01:23:49.550 --> 01:23:51.870
Now, in reality, there was no Ebion.

01:23:52.550 --> 01:23:56.970
The Ebionites are not named after a man
named Ebion.

01:23:58.150 --> 01:24:04.150
But, for whatever reason, Epiphanius is
asserting that they are.

01:24:04.690 --> 01:24:06.790
And he is attacking this person,
Ebion.

01:24:07.470 --> 01:24:13.390
However, as we go on, you'll see that he
admits who the Ebionites say founded them.

01:24:14.110 --> 01:24:15.610
And it's very revealing.

01:24:16.670 --> 01:24:19.110
So, we'll jump down a couple of
paragraphs.

01:24:19.110 --> 01:24:20.670
And he says,

01:24:38.310 --> 01:24:40.510
Okay, so what does this mean?

01:24:40.870 --> 01:24:47.410
Well, every time that you read a
historical reference to James,

01:24:47.410 --> 01:24:58.790
whether it's Hegasypis, or Epiphanius,
or Eusebius, Hippolytus, there's this

01:24:58.790 --> 01:25:01.490
association with James and the poor.

01:25:02.230 --> 01:25:09.670
Now, using translations, they pick and
choose how they're going to translate this

01:25:09.670 --> 01:25:13.510
word, the poor, because they want to
disassociate James with the Ebionites.

01:25:14.910 --> 01:25:21.410
So, when they say that in their writings,
they, of course, translate the word

01:25:21.410 --> 01:25:27.550
Ebionim into Greek, so it shows up as the
poor, not the Ebionim.

01:25:28.110 --> 01:25:29.150
Same thing with English.

01:25:29.250 --> 01:25:33.670
They translate it into English as the
poor, rather than leaving it as the

01:25:33.670 --> 01:25:34.330
Ebionites.

01:25:35.190 --> 01:25:37.810
Because they don't want to associate James
with this group.

01:25:38.990 --> 01:25:45.830
However, here you can see this admission
by Epiphanius that the Ebionites were very

01:25:45.830 --> 01:25:47.410
much associated with James.

01:25:47.990 --> 01:25:53.510
So, James, according to several historical
references we have, was a lifelong virgin.

01:25:56.070 --> 01:26:04.130
And, originally, the Ebionites practiced
celibacy, but once they moved out of

01:26:04.130 --> 01:26:10.390
Jerusalem, they actually forbid celibacy,
because they realized that if they did not

01:26:10.390 --> 01:26:13.890
have children, then their movement was
eventually going to die out.

01:26:14.990 --> 01:26:17.050
So, we'll go on to the next reference.

01:26:18.770 --> 01:26:23.530
He says that their origin, the Ebionites'
origin, came after the fall of Jerusalem,

01:26:24.170 --> 01:26:28.410
for since practically all who had come to
faith in Christ had settled in Perea,

01:26:28.770 --> 01:26:30.990
then in Pella, a town in the Decapolis.

01:26:30.990 --> 01:26:38.210
The Gospel mentions, which is near Botania
and Bishantas, as they have moved there

01:26:38.210 --> 01:26:39.170
and were living there.

01:26:39.330 --> 01:26:42.050
Now, this is a very well-known event.

01:26:42.610 --> 01:26:49.210
Just prior to the destruction of
Jerusalem, in or around 66 Common Era,

01:26:50.550 --> 01:26:57.270
the early church, we'll call them church,
the early assembly in Jerusalem were

01:26:57.270 --> 01:27:00.870
warned by a prophet to flee the city.

01:27:00.870 --> 01:27:06.370
And so, at their first opportunity,
they left the city of Jerusalem,

01:27:06.670 --> 01:27:09.150
because they knew it was about to be
destroyed.

01:27:09.750 --> 01:27:11.070
And they went to Pella.

01:27:11.430 --> 01:27:16.490
So, if you were to go to Google and type
in the flight to Pella, you'll get all

01:27:16.490 --> 01:27:17.630
kinds of information about this.

01:27:17.690 --> 01:27:24.790
This is a well-known historical event,
that the original followers of Yeshua fled

01:27:24.790 --> 01:27:27.290
to Pella before the destruction of
Jerusalem.

01:27:28.410 --> 01:27:35.570
Now, notice that he's admitting that the
Ebionites originated out of Pella,

01:27:35.970 --> 01:27:41.470
which was the same area where the original
apostles went to.

01:27:43.710 --> 01:27:48.790
Moving on, he says, they too accept the
Gospel according to Matthew, like the

01:27:48.790 --> 01:27:51.600
Corinthians and the Morinthians.

01:27:52.050 --> 01:27:53.470
They too use it alone.

01:27:54.110 --> 01:27:55.750
They call it according to the Hebrews.

01:27:55.750 --> 01:27:59.930
And it is true to say that Matthew
expounded and preached the Gospel in the

01:27:59.930 --> 01:28:02.570
Hebrew language, and Alphabet in the New
Testament.

01:28:02.730 --> 01:28:06.370
So, okay, this is a bit of a legendary
book.

01:28:06.710 --> 01:28:08.490
The Gospel according to the Hebrews.

01:28:09.310 --> 01:28:11.770
We've got several references to it.

01:28:12.230 --> 01:28:14.150
Jerome quotes out of it.

01:28:15.150 --> 01:28:17.790
Supposedly, he even translated it into
Latin.

01:28:18.570 --> 01:28:23.590
It's also mentioned by Origen,
and several other historians.

01:28:23.590 --> 01:28:25.070
I mean, it's a well-known book.

01:28:25.130 --> 01:28:26.350
However, it's been lost.

01:28:29.310 --> 01:28:32.250
Or some may say it was destroyed by the
church.

01:28:32.630 --> 01:28:39.590
But what this was, it was a Hebrew Gospel,
very similar to the Gospel of Matthew.

01:28:40.690 --> 01:28:45.490
In fact, many people who look into the
Gospel according to the Hebrews believe it

01:28:45.490 --> 01:28:47.550
to be the original Gospel.

01:28:48.050 --> 01:28:50.950
And that it was translated into Greek.

01:28:53.790 --> 01:28:58.030
And somewhat changed, and that became what
we know as the Gospel of Matthew.

01:28:59.490 --> 01:29:04.570
So, here's an admission that the Ebionites
used the Gospel according to the Hebrews.

01:29:05.150 --> 01:29:11.170
Which is widely regarded to be the
original, very first of the Synoptic

01:29:11.170 --> 01:29:11.710
Gospels.

01:29:14.590 --> 01:29:17.270
And he says, but they used certain other
books as well.

01:29:17.510 --> 01:29:20.790
Supposedly, the so-called Travels of
Peter, written by Clement.

01:29:20.790 --> 01:29:24.470
Though they corrupt the contents while
leaving a few genuine passages.

01:29:24.670 --> 01:29:29.710
So, here you see that this is the book
that we're going to be studying in this

01:29:29.710 --> 01:29:36.170
series of studies I'm going to try to put
together.

01:29:37.490 --> 01:29:43.790
He's speaking about what has become known
as the Nazarene Acts of the Apostles.

01:29:44.330 --> 01:29:46.930
Or the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions.

01:29:47.090 --> 01:29:48.810
This is the book that we're going to be
reading.

01:29:48.810 --> 01:29:53.870
But he admits here that this is actually
an Ebionite document.

01:29:55.170 --> 01:30:01.530
And in fact, in the Recognitions of
Clement in the Nazarene Acts, it in itself

01:30:01.530 --> 01:30:05.070
says that it's written by Clement.

01:30:05.290 --> 01:30:07.410
And that Clement was sending this
information.

01:30:07.570 --> 01:30:10.090
He was sending his writings to James.

01:30:10.790 --> 01:30:17.090
So, we have within the Nazarene Acts of
the Apostles, Clement tells us that he's

01:30:17.090 --> 01:30:18.030
sending it to James.

01:30:18.030 --> 01:30:20.650
And that James is associated with the
Ebionites.

01:30:21.290 --> 01:30:26.990
And then, a couple hundred years later,
when Epiphanius was writing about this,

01:30:27.070 --> 01:30:28.950
he mentions that they have this book.

01:30:30.130 --> 01:30:35.470
So, you can see how the whole series of
possession goes.

01:30:35.610 --> 01:30:39.830
From Clement, sent to James, from James to
the Ebionites, and now it's being

01:30:39.830 --> 01:30:41.090
mentioned by Epiphanius.

01:30:43.110 --> 01:30:50.790
He says, Nor are they ashamed to accuse
Paul here with certain fabrications of

01:30:50.790 --> 01:30:53.450
their false apostles' villainy and
imposture.

01:30:53.730 --> 01:30:58.510
They say he was a Tarsian, which he admits
himself and does not deny, and they

01:30:58.510 --> 01:31:03.150
suppose that he was of Greek parentage,
taking the occasion for this from the same

01:31:03.150 --> 01:31:08.110
passage because of his frank statement,
I am a man of Tarsus, a citizen in no mean

01:31:08.110 --> 01:31:08.510
city.

01:31:10.090 --> 01:31:13.830
They then claim that he was a Greek and a
son of a Greek mother and Greek father,

01:31:14.390 --> 01:31:18.950
and that he went up to Jerusalem and
stayed there for a while, desired to marry

01:31:18.950 --> 01:31:22.590
a daughter of the high priest,
and had therefore become a proselytite and

01:31:22.590 --> 01:31:23.450
been circumcised.

01:31:23.730 --> 01:31:28.350
But since he still could not marry that
sort of girl, he became angry and wrote

01:31:28.350 --> 01:31:31.410
against circumcision and against the
Sabbath and the legislation.

01:31:31.410 --> 01:31:38.210
So, this in itself is probably,
to most of you, a very controversial

01:31:38.210 --> 01:31:39.770
statement.

01:31:41.130 --> 01:31:45.830
And this is something that I hope to get
into somewhat throughout this study.

01:31:47.810 --> 01:31:55.030
There are many people out there on YouTube
and Facebook that spend a lot of time

01:31:55.030 --> 01:31:58.370
bashing Paul and calling him a false
apostle.

01:32:00.550 --> 01:32:06.010
And the majority of what they say is
really nothing other than slander.

01:32:08.770 --> 01:32:11.130
I'm personally not interested in slander.

01:32:11.290 --> 01:32:21.710
I'm not interested in, you know,
just going out vindictively to destroy

01:32:21.710 --> 01:32:22.730
Paul's reputation.

01:32:23.830 --> 01:32:30.390
That being said, if Paul is a false
apostle, do we not need to know that?

01:32:32.850 --> 01:32:34.030
And that's the key.

01:32:34.330 --> 01:32:36.050
You know, most people don't even want to
look at it.

01:32:36.110 --> 01:32:39.250
They don't want to think about the fact
that Paul might be a false apostle.

01:32:39.650 --> 01:32:40.830
But how would we know?

01:32:41.530 --> 01:32:47.690
Well, I would say that the best way to
know would be to know what do the original

01:32:47.690 --> 01:32:49.370
apostles feel about Paul.

01:32:50.830 --> 01:32:57.330
In the book of Acts, we're given the
impression that things were favorable

01:32:57.330 --> 01:33:00.230
between himself and the other apostles,
including James.

01:33:01.230 --> 01:33:07.350
However, if you look at Paul's epistles,
you begin to think that maybe there was a

01:33:07.350 --> 01:33:08.310
different story there.

01:33:10.610 --> 01:33:14.070
Personally, after coming to this
information about the Abianites and

01:33:14.070 --> 01:33:18.390
studying it, and studying a number of
different historical documents,

01:33:18.790 --> 01:33:23.710
what I believe happened was, I believe
that initially, Paul was part of their

01:33:23.710 --> 01:33:24.050
movement.

01:33:24.470 --> 01:33:28.930
That at first, when he first had his
conversion, they accepted him.

01:33:29.530 --> 01:33:34.010
They believed that he was teaching the
same doctrine that they were.

01:33:34.010 --> 01:33:41.150
But over time, I think that either Paul
changed his doctrine, or possibly they got

01:33:41.150 --> 01:33:44.770
to know a little bit more about Paul,
and realized he was teaching something

01:33:44.770 --> 01:33:46.090
contrary to what they were.

01:33:47.050 --> 01:33:49.890
And I'll let you make your decision
yourself about that.

01:33:50.090 --> 01:33:54.330
I do think, though, if there is a
possibility that Paul was a false apostle,

01:33:54.830 --> 01:33:57.250
you owe it to yourself to study that out.

01:33:58.170 --> 01:34:05.130
Now, Paul is not mentioned in the
recognitions of Clement by name.

01:34:05.630 --> 01:34:07.050
He does appear in there.

01:34:07.550 --> 01:34:09.110
He's not mentioned by name.

01:34:10.150 --> 01:34:20.450
But, the recognitions of Clement gives you
another version of the incident where

01:34:20.450 --> 01:34:22.430
there was a riot started in the temple.

01:34:22.430 --> 01:34:27.310
And in the book of Acts, it ends with the
stoning of Stephen.

01:34:27.830 --> 01:34:33.810
And immediately afterwards, Paul is sent
with letters after the assembly to chase

01:34:33.810 --> 01:34:35.150
them down in Damascus.

01:34:35.650 --> 01:34:40.630
In the Nazarene Acts of the Apostles,
you have the same story, only more

01:34:40.630 --> 01:34:41.190
detailed.

01:34:41.190 --> 01:34:48.690
And instead of attacking and stoning
Stephen, there is an injury done to James

01:34:48.690 --> 01:34:52.730
by this unnamed person, who is clearly
Paul.

01:34:54.190 --> 01:34:59.230
Based upon the comparison between the
story in Acts and the story in the

01:34:59.230 --> 01:35:00.090
Nazarene Acts.

01:35:00.370 --> 01:35:03.290
It's obviously Paul that attacks James.

01:35:04.210 --> 01:35:10.770
And immediately after that, this unnamed
person is sent with letters to pursue the

01:35:10.770 --> 01:35:12.630
Apostles to Damascus.

01:35:12.750 --> 01:35:14.970
Again, perfectly fits Paul.

01:35:15.350 --> 01:35:16.750
So, we know that it is Paul.

01:35:17.570 --> 01:35:24.070
In fact, if you were to go and buy this
book, it will probably tell you in the

01:35:24.070 --> 01:35:26.690
footnotes that the unnamed person is Paul.

01:35:28.810 --> 01:35:34.690
So, Paul appears in the Nazarene Acts,
but he is never mentioned by name.

01:35:35.230 --> 01:35:40.150
But a lot of the doctrines that Peter
argues against in the Nazarene Acts of the

01:35:40.150 --> 01:35:42.090
Apostles are clearly Pauline doctrine.

01:35:44.090 --> 01:35:50.370
So, before you shut this off and say,
I'm not going to listen to this because I

01:35:50.370 --> 01:35:51.010
like Paul.

01:35:52.110 --> 01:35:58.310
Again, I ask you to please think about it
and ask yourself, if Paul was false,

01:35:58.910 --> 01:36:02.150
do I have a duty to study that out for
myself?

01:36:03.010 --> 01:36:04.510
I'm not here to bash Paul.

01:36:04.590 --> 01:36:09.410
I'm not here to try and come up with
different ways to slander him and

01:36:09.410 --> 01:36:12.050
different unfounded arguments.

01:36:12.050 --> 01:36:18.890
However, I really feel like the remedy for
the argument is not to debate it

01:36:18.890 --> 01:36:23.650
endlessly, but to honestly go back and
study history and to look at what the

01:36:23.650 --> 01:36:24.670
other Apostles said.

01:36:24.770 --> 01:36:26.890
What literature do we have from there?

01:36:27.310 --> 01:36:29.450
What references do we have from
historians?

01:36:31.950 --> 01:36:40.230
And then use all the evidence to form your
conclusion, not just based upon slander

01:36:40.230 --> 01:36:41.450
and opinions.

01:36:41.450 --> 01:36:47.310
And honestly, if you really want to study
it out, I think you can come to a pretty

01:36:47.310 --> 01:36:51.610
good picture of what's going on in the New
Testament between Paul and the other

01:36:51.610 --> 01:36:52.190
Apostles.

01:36:53.790 --> 01:36:57.990
So, one final slide before we get into the
Nazarene Acts.

01:36:58.910 --> 01:37:05.410
Epiphanius says that he, being an Ebion,
this fictitional founder of the Ebionites,

01:37:05.730 --> 01:37:09.990
that he is making a completely false
accusation that accusation is against

01:37:09.990 --> 01:37:10.290
Paul.

01:37:10.290 --> 01:37:15.410
This horrid serpent with his poverty of
understanding, for Ebion translated from

01:37:15.410 --> 01:37:16.750
Hebrew to Greek means poor.

01:37:17.610 --> 01:37:21.490
For truly he is poor in understanding,
hope, and actuality, since he regards

01:37:21.490 --> 01:37:25.510
Christ as a mere man, and thus has come to
hope with him in the poverty of faith.

01:37:26.010 --> 01:37:30.030
They themselves, if you please boastful,
claim they are poor, because they sold

01:37:30.030 --> 01:37:33.250
their possession in the Apostles' time and
laid them at the Apostles' feet,

01:37:33.650 --> 01:37:38.830
and went over to a life of poverty and
renunciation, and thus they say they are

01:37:38.830 --> 01:37:39.990
called poor by everyone.

01:37:40.870 --> 01:37:46.690
So, again you see that Epiphanius is
making sure that he is constantly bashing

01:37:46.690 --> 01:37:47.970
Ebion and the Ebionites.

01:37:48.310 --> 01:37:57.730
However, he admits pretty openly here that
the Ebionites themselves claim,

01:37:57.830 --> 01:38:01.710
in his word, that they are poor because
they sold their possessions to the

01:38:01.710 --> 01:38:02.630
original Apostles.

01:38:03.630 --> 01:38:08.810
So again, there is no proof, there is no
evidence anywhere, aside from what

01:38:08.810 --> 01:38:12.410
Epiphanius is saying, that there was ever
this person named Ebion.

01:38:13.090 --> 01:38:13.550
Ever.

01:38:14.190 --> 01:38:18.430
But even in the Epistle of James,
you see him associating himself with the

01:38:18.430 --> 01:38:20.210
poor, with the Ebionites.

01:38:20.410 --> 01:38:24.730
And you hear Paul is told to make sure he
remembers the Ebionites.

01:38:25.650 --> 01:38:31.270
So, we got these references to the poor in
the New Testament.

01:38:32.390 --> 01:38:37.710
And the Ebionites themselves are telling
Epiphanius, he is having some sort of a

01:38:37.710 --> 01:38:42.910
communication with Ebionites, and they are
telling him that no, we were not founded

01:38:42.910 --> 01:38:45.150
by Ebion, we were founded by the Apostles.

01:38:45.610 --> 01:38:49.310
And that is why we are called Ebionites,
not because of Ebion, some guy named

01:38:49.310 --> 01:38:49.690
Ebion.

01:38:50.330 --> 01:38:53.230
So, that is what we have from Epiphanius.

01:38:53.230 --> 01:38:59.590
You can also find information on them from
Hippolytus, and Eusebius, and other

01:38:59.590 --> 01:39:00.970
heresiologists.

01:39:01.270 --> 01:39:06.610
Just keep in mind, whatever you read about
them, you have got Catholic, Christian,

01:39:06.870 --> 01:39:10.990
the official church is not going to have
anything favorable to say about the

01:39:10.990 --> 01:39:14.650
Ebionites, or the Nazarenes, or any of the
original followers of Yeshua.

01:39:15.370 --> 01:39:17.570
Because they have got an agenda to
protect.

01:39:18.890 --> 01:39:21.470
Alright, so, Hidden Truth.

01:39:21.810 --> 01:39:25.010
This is in the Recognitions of Clement.

01:39:25.630 --> 01:39:27.890
It tells the story of Clement meeting
Peter.

01:39:28.850 --> 01:39:31.830
It contains authentic teachings of Simon
Peter.

01:39:33.050 --> 01:39:37.150
It also contains authentic letters between
James, Peter, and Clement.

01:39:39.390 --> 01:39:44.510
Peter is portrayed as debating Simon
Magus, and I will let you be the judge of

01:39:44.510 --> 01:39:46.730
this, but I think he was actually debating
Paul.

01:39:46.730 --> 01:39:52.570
Because a lot of the doctrines of Simon
Magus seem to be very Pauline.

01:39:55.430 --> 01:39:57.930
It contains lost Ebionite doctrines.

01:39:58.170 --> 01:40:02.770
Some of these lost doctrines that you hear
mentioned by people like Epiphanius,

01:40:02.910 --> 01:40:07.650
there is a belief called the Primal Atom
Doctrine.

01:40:08.890 --> 01:40:15.830
Which basically is that Yeshua was going
to be like a second atom.

01:40:16.510 --> 01:40:20.570
And of course you see that mentioned and
alluded to in the New Testament a couple

01:40:20.570 --> 01:40:21.050
of times.

01:40:22.370 --> 01:40:25.910
And that is what is meant by the Son of
Adam, or the Son of Man.

01:40:26.510 --> 01:40:30.170
Is that he was a type and shadow of like a
repeat of Adam.

01:40:31.550 --> 01:40:36.890
He was sent to restore what Adam had
destroyed.

01:40:37.730 --> 01:40:41.530
There is also a doctrine known as the
Standing One, or the Standing Man

01:40:41.530 --> 01:40:41.990
Doctrine.

01:40:41.990 --> 01:40:45.930
Where Messiah, one of the titles for
Messiah is the Standing Man.

01:40:46.470 --> 01:40:51.510
And when you see a character, you see this
in the New Testament, you even see it back

01:40:51.510 --> 01:40:52.410
in the Torah.

01:40:52.970 --> 01:40:57.970
That when someone is said that they stand
up, or they straighten themselves up.

01:40:58.070 --> 01:41:02.070
That what they are doing is they are
essentially doing some sort of act of

01:41:02.070 --> 01:41:02.650
righteousness.

01:41:04.950 --> 01:41:07.810
Righteousness or restoration or
redemption.

01:41:08.770 --> 01:41:11.210
And so this is what you would expect from
the Messiah.

01:41:11.210 --> 01:41:16.830
You expect him to be, by standing up,
he is there to restore righteousness and

01:41:16.830 --> 01:41:17.330
justice.

01:41:18.210 --> 01:41:23.970
Now this Ebionite Doctrine, they are all
contained within the Nazarene Acts of the

01:41:23.970 --> 01:41:24.490
Apostles.

01:41:24.650 --> 01:41:29.470
Which is proof that it is a genuine
document.

01:41:29.650 --> 01:41:32.450
It is not something that was written in
the 300's or 400's.

01:41:32.450 --> 01:41:37.650
Or in the medieval time, like some people
say.

01:41:37.970 --> 01:41:42.250
But it was actually written right after
the destruction of Jerusalem.

01:41:45.050 --> 01:41:48.050
And some of the story line is likely
fictional.

01:41:48.870 --> 01:41:54.210
I think somebody took the teachings of
Peter and took the letters of Clement.

01:41:54.970 --> 01:41:59.990
And put them together and then added a bit
of a story line to it.

01:42:00.330 --> 01:42:01.670
Especially later in the book.

01:42:03.090 --> 01:42:05.330
To basically turn it into a novel.

01:42:06.150 --> 01:42:10.870
But because they did that, they were able
to preserve these teachings that we have

01:42:10.870 --> 01:42:11.570
from Peter.

01:42:12.130 --> 01:42:15.670
And I really think that if they had not
put this into the novel form.

01:42:15.750 --> 01:42:21.050
And had not added the story line to it to
make it sound like some kind of romantic

01:42:21.050 --> 01:42:22.690
novel.

01:42:23.690 --> 01:42:27.630
Then we probably wouldn't have this work
today.

01:42:27.630 --> 01:42:32.210
But because they did that, they were able
to preserve and protect the teachings of

01:42:32.210 --> 01:42:32.470
Peter.

01:42:34.010 --> 01:42:40.110
If you want to get a copy of this
document, you can go to the web address at

01:42:40.110 --> 01:42:41.090
the top of your screen.

01:42:43.170 --> 01:42:49.710
And this page will take you to the home
page of the where to start area of

01:42:49.710 --> 01:42:55.450
JacksonSnyder.com And right there on that
screen there is a PDF that you can click

01:42:55.450 --> 01:42:56.910
on and get the PDF for free.

01:42:58.370 --> 01:43:05.190
If you want to order a print copy of it,
there is links on JacksonSnyder.com.

01:43:05.230 --> 01:43:13.030
Where you can go to his Lulu store and you
can order a print on demand version of it.

01:43:13.530 --> 01:43:15.790
You will have to pay for that,
I think it is around $25.

01:43:17.270 --> 01:43:19.890
This is a book that you want imprinted
for.

01:43:19.890 --> 01:43:25.710
This is something you want to be able to
highlight and put notes in and flip

01:43:25.710 --> 01:43:27.130
through and refer back to.

01:43:27.270 --> 01:43:31.290
This book is going to bless you
tremendously if you will actually take the

01:43:31.290 --> 01:43:32.070
time to read it.

01:43:33.190 --> 01:43:35.230
It has so much information in it.

01:43:35.510 --> 01:43:40.310
It answers so many questions about what
Yeshua taught and what Peter taught and

01:43:40.310 --> 01:43:41.430
what the apostles believed.

01:43:42.410 --> 01:43:46.710
I highly, highly, highly recommend getting
a print copy of this.

01:43:46.710 --> 01:43:52.130
But, like I said, the PDF version is there
for free.

01:43:52.330 --> 01:43:54.870
So you can get it for free and read it
yourself.

01:43:56.190 --> 01:43:57.750
So, well, that is it.

01:43:58.290 --> 01:44:03.650
From this point forward, the next video I
put up, I am just going to start from

01:44:03.650 --> 01:44:04.510
chapter 1.

01:44:05.070 --> 01:44:08.890
And we will make our way through the book
and we will take it one chapter at a time.

01:44:09.990 --> 01:44:12.210
A chapter in this book is just a
paragraph.

01:44:12.210 --> 01:44:18.490
So we will go paragraph after paragraph
and we will read it and see what sticks

01:44:18.490 --> 01:44:19.510
out in the reading.

01:44:20.050 --> 01:44:23.690
And if you get yourself a copy of the PDF,
you can read along too.

01:44:24.270 --> 01:44:27.830
So, thank you for listening and I hope you
choose to continue.

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Shalom.