Jesus and the Essenes

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What is the pinnacle of the Essene Community’s contributions to the shaping of a Savior? While the evidence indicates the Essenes provided much of Jesus’ training to fulfil his role as the Wayshower and Avatar of the Piscean dispensation, there was one supremely transcendent message Jesus imparted that God ordained to him in fulfillment of the Scriptures. This one teaching was the core of all the Mastertaught, delivered to all who would receive it then and now. In 2020, Meru University offered an exciting course on the relationship between Jesus and a little-known Jewish community called the Essenes. For many Meru University students who had never heard of the Essenes, the course proved to be an eye-opening education. Stephen Goranson suggests that Judah the Essene, mentioned by Josephus, is the Teacher. [15] John the Baptist [ edit ] Pliny locates them "on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast... [above] the town of Engeda". [24]

Biblical Archeology Society Staff (8 May 2022). "Who Were the Essenes?". Biblical Archaeology Society. Biblical Archeology Society . Retrieved 9 May 2022. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity by Walter Bauer, translated by Robert Kraft and Gerhard Krodel, (Philadelphia, 1971)We care about our planet! We contribute a share of our revenue to remove carbon from the atmosphere. a b Rudolph, Kurt (April 1964). "War Der Verfasser Der Oden Salomos Ein "Qumran-Christ"? Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um die Anfänge der Gnosis". Revue de Qumrân. Peeters. 4 (16): 523–555. a b c Drower, Ethel Stephana (1960). The secret Adam, a study of Nasoraean gnosis (PDF). London UK: Clarendon Press. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 March 2014.

Evidence points to the ways Jesus, as well as John the Baptist, also taught by the Essenes, adapted some of the Essene rituals into their teachings. These practices have remained integral to Christianity unto the present day. a b c Lightfoot, Joseph Barber (1875). "On Some Points Connected with the Essenes". St. Paul's epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon: a revised text with introductions, notes, and dissertations. London: Macmillan Publishers. OCLC 6150927. The once entrenched idea that early Christian heresies emerged in opposition to some ancient, permanent orthodoxy, is utterly misleading. There were in fact many different competing 'Christianities' in the first few centuries AD. Referred to by some researchers as the “people of the covenant” or the “covenanters,” we learn that the Essenes, inhabitants of these far-flung desert dwellings in and around ancient Palestine, dedicated their lives to a singular purpose. 1. The main objective of the several redoubts maintained by the Essenes was the accumulation, preservation and ultimate dissemination of the sacred knowledge that lay at the very foundation of what the Christian world refers to as the Old Testament books of the Bible. The Essenes and the origins of Christianity". The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com . Retrieved 19 June 2022.The Essenes and some early Christians espoused a pious, ascetic life, deserting the city and the secular world for a life of solitary or communal prayer and self-denial. Larson, Martin Alfred (1977). The story of Christian origins: or, The sources and establishment of Western religion. Washington: J.J. Binns. ISBN 0-88331-090-2. OCLC 2810217. It has been popular among some scholars to claim that John the Baptist was an Essene. There are some similarities between John and the Essenes: 1. John was in the desert (Luke 1:80). The Essenes were in the desert. 2. Both John and the Essenes used Isaiah 40:3 to describe themselves as the voice in the wilderness. 3. The baptism (or washing) practiced by John and the Essenes required a change of heart. At the same time, there are significant differences between John the Baptist and the Essenes: 1. The Essenes hid themselves away from society in the wilderness. John was a very public figure. 2. John had a much stricter diet (Luke 7:33) than did the Essenes. 3. John preached Jesus as the Messiah. The Essenes did not recognize Jesus as Messiah, but they thought that the Teacher of Righteousness would himself be an Essene. 4. There was a strong organization among the Essenes that was missing among John the Baptist’s disciples. So, was John the Baptist an Essene? While it is possible, it cannot be explicitly proven either biblically or historically.