Had a listen to the EGOP yesterday..
Had a good look at the essene gospel of peace yesterday, book 1, the original, and much of book 2, the gospel of communion with angels. (listened to them as audio while out harvesting some herbs).
The Egop book #1 sounds so very good and wise. It does. It tells us all the wisdom that several hundred years' worth of medical understanding has taught are most important to health. It even has a very good explanation of the technique used to expel whole tapeworms..
The one thing it doesn't do is carry the same spirit as writing inspired by the spirit of Yah (yah being the family name of God (the father), his spirit (the feminine) and son (the full expression of both in a humbled body)).
There are themes of purity of the body in the gospels and all throughout script, but they don't embrace vegetarianisim (The prophetic images of passover as a sign of the messiach required eating some lamb), they don't teach the continual embracing of angels (we are told rather to test all spirits, namely asking in the realm of thoughts and visions and dreams - 'do you say Yahoshuvah is Lord and Master'? ... All manner of lies are easy to accept without a simple guarding of the heart.) and the burden of the healing of the body doesn't fall on the sick person, but upon trust in Yah.
From there healing begins! I like the EGOP book 1 because it's comforting and familiar, and there are various truths in it of this earth being a womb for the children of Yah, and coming into fullness once we come to know the ways of the soil. There's so much bible and quotes woven into the book it feels almost right..
.. And yet those places where it strikes me as quite wrong. Not in the advice in the care of the physical body, but in completely changing the role of the Ruach Hakodesh (holy spirit). If I'm wrong about the book, my understanding will be corrected by further study, of course.
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Read through (
http://bibleinterp.com/opeds/2015/06/jos398030.shtml )
There was one gem I extracted from that article- a certain focus on the books of Enoch among the Essenes. Jesus (Yahushua (translitterated joshua)) and the new Testament writings reflect having Enoch as a vital historical root, and it's the very first ancient book which points out his physical life and purpose.
'Any man who kills an animal without injury has committed a sin' - a quote from the section known as 'the secrets of enoch'.
Noah's account of being told his family was permitted to eat meat after the settling of the ark reveal something telling-
the climate of the whole earth changed.
The bimini road, the yonagumi monument, the badlands national park and black hills, the sunken village ruins at the deepest levels of the black sea, the water damage around the rock at the feet of the sphinx, the perfect engineering of pre-cataclysmic ruins.. That gives us a very clear snapshot of the truth of that matter..
Fruits and veg were rather a different experience in the pre-flood epoch, but it didn't prevent folk from pulling the breaks on their body and being simply wise, knowing the difference between evil and good.
Mulling, mulling, turning the thoughts over in my head.7