I am looking for fellowship with like minded individuals who are Essene Christians or are open to the Essene Christian worldview.
Its a Jewish Christian denomination. Doesn't really exist currently but I'm trying to restore it. Scholars do not agree that it is a christian movement, but I disagree with those scholars due to my own research into the Essene beliefs...
alom buddy
So then you're looking for Believers with a bent toward the DSS then, in short ?
Its a Jewish Christian denomination.
Doesn't really exist
Scholars do not agree that it is a christian movement,
but I disagree with those scholars due to my own research into the Essene beliefs.
This doesn't make sense...
...with this.
Yeah, because it wasn't.
Why do you think you know more than those who have studied the topic?
This is starting to sound like the Samaritan Messianic we had in here a few months ago.
I call Poe.
Its an extinct denomination in other words. I am restoring it, but it died long ago.
I think I know more than the scholars who are biased towards anti religious opinions. For example, all atheist scholars date Daniel to the mid 1st century BC because they believe it was impossible for it to have been actual prophecy. The scholars have a bias which clouds their judgment. Likewise the scholars on the Essenes they have a bias which hinders their ability to think clearly and interpret fairly.
I take what the Church Fathers and the Essene writings said themselves. If they contradict what the scholars say, i go with the ancient witnesses. They are more reliable than the wild speculations of modern scholars.
Also the books i accept as Scripture teach certain doctrines that only the Essenes believed. So that's how i know they were identical because I abide by Scripture as of the supreme authority whereas the scholars are fallible. Scripture is not fallible but those men are.
.... I abide by Scripture as of the supreme authority whereas the scholars are fallible. Scripture is not fallible but those men are.
Exactly how do you know what I believe?
You can try the Shakers forum here. It doesn't exist though, because the Shakers don't exist for much the same reason the Essenes no longer exist.
How can there be Essenes here if they don't exist?
How old are you?
Dan C
This is starting to sound like the Samaritan Messianic we had in here a few months ago.
I call Poe.
You can try the Shakers forum here. It doesn't exist though, because the Shakers don't exist for much the same reason the Essenes no longer exist.
How can there be Essenes here if they don't exist?
How old are you?
Dan C
You need to offer more details so we can understand what you mean. What do you mean: "Also the books i accept as Scripture teach certain doctrines that only the Essenes believed." The denomination that went extinct was the Judaizing Christians.
If you read carefully, you will see I'm not quoting you, I'm quoting Onieu:
Originally Posted by Onieu.... I abide by Scripture as of the supreme authority whereas the scholars are fallible. Scripture is not fallible but those men are.
Yes the Essenes were according to modern Christians a Judaizing group. But the doctrines i was referring to are such as: 1.Communism 2.Three Year Conversion Process 3.Baptism for the Remission of Sins 4.Sacred Meal of Bread in White Garments 5.Celibacy as the Preference and the Ideal 6.Acceptance of the Apocrypha as Authoritative 7.Acceptance of a Religious Calendar Differing from the Pharisees 8.Excommunication
All these things and more the Essenes and the first Christians believed the same