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* PENTECOST* 20/20 THE WORLD'S GREATEST HOLINESS PREACHER! |
A New Light Dawns! |
, The Dilemma Today in Our Time - The 21st century not the 1st Century- (the century in which Jesus Christ actually lived) -- Is that we, the on-lookers -- The undecided -- The teenagers and youth of today Those who have a CHOICE about whether or not they want to set foot in a church of any type--EVER! Is that we (not the church-goers) are presented (by TV and Cable) and by ADS for Religious meetings, by historical school courses, by rumors and the traditions of our church-going friends -- and by Hollywood movies we may attend out of curiosity -- with 6 decidedly different and incompatible with each other pictures or personalities of JESUS CHRIST! |
6 Commonly Proposed Pictures or Personalities of Jesus Christ |
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Dr. Robert F. Holt, MD pictured here with this montage of pictures representing the Dead Sea Scrolls, is obviously biased towards Jesus #3, that Jesus was an Essene, and this is the Jesus he'll discuss on this page, but he'll discuss in 6 pages, continuing with this one, all these viewpoints and conflicting personalities for Jesus. |
SECULAR WRITERS and RELIGIOUS WRITERS alike, are mostly ignoring the possibility, indeed the most likely probability, that Jesus and the 12 Apostles were all Essenes. One of the many reasons they are doing this is because of the odd way the Gospels and Acts are written. And because Paul's Epistles or "Letters" speak very little about Jesus' actual life.
It was known by some religious scholars and many historians long before the modern discoveries at Qumran by the Dead Sea that there was indeed a group of holy men, monks of a sort, who lived in the Judean Desert before and during the lifetime of Jesus Christ, but no connection was made between this group and Jesus and his disciples.
Although there was initially after the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in caves near the ruins of the Qumran monastery some resistance by archaeologists and some theologians to the idea that a fairly large group of Essenes lived here year-round and copied these scrolls, it's now conceded by most that this was indeed the case. But only one major researcher and theology professor, Dr. Barbara Thiering PhD, who taught at the University of Sydney, in Australia, put forth and defended the theory that Jesus and most or all of his close associates in the Gospels were Essenes. She discovered a method, called "Gospel Pesher" which, when she uses to examine the Gospel accounts about Jesus' activities, allows her to reinterpret them as real events with accurate dates.
Jesus, in a way, under the proper circumstances, did appear to "walk on water", still "storms" with a few words, feed 5000 people with a few "loaves and fishes", and do all those other things recorded in the Gospels. NOT in Galilee and on the "Sea of Galilee" but on the Dead Sea and in the Wilderness of Judaea, which the Gospel Writers had creatively (but deceptively) renamed for far-away locations to provide a "proper setting" for these partly true but mostly allegorical stories. |
Once the major Christian theologians and professors of religion in the major Universities and Theological Seminaries of the world discovered that the Dead Sea Scrolls DO NOT support the Christian Theology that became dominant after the Council of Nicaea they lost interest in what these Scrolls DO support, which is a type of Numerology and Astrology quite unique to the Essenes, and are content to let Dr. Barbara Thiering PhD do what she does best, with some occasional minor criticism from them. The general public is out of the loop. |
Since I myself bought and read Dr. Barbara Thiering's book "Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls" the year it was first published, 1992, I've taken many trips to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and other nations and so far as I can determine, what she's written is true.
For more on my trips learning about the Essene Jesus Click Here! |
Adventists, after Jesus failed to appear on October 22, 1844 made some adjustments in their Nicene Creed inspired expectations, including some knowledge of Jesus as an Essene-type "High Priest" -- eventually we acquired an imperfect view of the Essene Millennial Week.
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The "Fig Tree" has Bloomed! Matthew 24: 32 "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, know ye that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." Interpretation: When Israel (the "Fig Tree") becomes a nation -- the End of the Age (of Pisces) has arrived.
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False End-Time Fears are still Exploited
But the true knowledge of Essenes predictions and Jesus' connection to these predictions makes mindless FEAR based on unfounded unscientific pseudo-science optional. Human beings should unite in their efforts to preserve what is good about our Civilization, and resist the efforts of religious fanatics to gain advantage and power over the rest of us, who they perceive as weak and easy prey for them to destroy.
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And so it is that I, who know about the Essenes, can spend my time and efforts on a subject with some potential to actually improve the world in which we live -- encourage interaction between the human and the Divine in another "Pentecost", not predict that Jesus as "God" will magically re-create this earth! |
NEXT PAGE in this SERIES Jesus #4 The CELIBATE JESUS who never had SEX, who never THOUGHT about SEX, because he was PERFECT and never SINNED, even by a THOUGHT! For Dr. Bob Holt's presentation of this COMMON ASSUMPTION --- |