And the rebuttal...

Interesting stuff.

However, just a couple of points on the first link:

"The Essenes were an extremist monastic group, holding to a rigid, austere, and bizarre form of religion with Gnostic overtones, awaiting the Messiah to appear to deliver them to a new Israel."

--"bizarre form of religion" is in the eye of the beholder. Nice piece of denigration there. I sometimes find parts of traditional Christianity, and certainly most fundamentalist Christianity is rigid and bizarre, but heaven forbid that I should announce it in a debunking styled article.


"While Jesus of Nazareth was not an Essene"

--actually my sources indicate that Jesus was an Essene.



The rest of the article portrays a selected history and looks at the Essenes with a jaundiced eye. Of course, the spin from this web site is from orthodox Christians and you must know by now I don't always agree with their opinions...




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Wiz


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Interesting stuff.

However, just a couple of points on the first link:

"The Essenes were an extremist monastic group, holding to a rigid, austere, and bizarre form of religion with Gnostic overtones, awaiting the Messiah to appear to deliver them to a new Israel."

--"bizarre form of religion" is in the eye of the beholder. Nice piece of denigration there. In my opinion, much of traditional Christianity, and certainly most fundamentalist Christianity is rigid and bizarre, but heaven forbid that I should announce it in a debunking styled article.


"While Jesus of Nazareth was not an Essene"

--actually my sources indicate that Jesus was an Essene.



The rest of the article portrays a selected history and looks at the Essenes with a jaundiced eye. Of course, the spin from this web site is from orthodox Christians and you must know by now I don't always agree with their opinions...




;0)

Wiz

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