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To Christians and followers of Jesus - What do you think of the Nazarene Essenes?
I'm currently reading " The Essene Gospels of Peace" and I think that these need to be added back into the Bible. Or at least made known to all Christians and followers of the teachings of Jesus. Well, maybe it is just me that never heard of these before.,but don't you think it is strange that such specific teachings of being good and living in harmony with the earth and nature etc.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It could be that the legitimacy of these books are in dispute, and that's why they haven't been included in the Bible. It's just like the book of Judas, that was found recently.
Or maybe it's the fact that in an effort to keep the poor people in slavery, that the Catholic church considers them stupid.
I do know that the council of Nicea was where they set the books of the bible and threw some other one's out. Sometimes I wonder if they threw the wrong one's out, and kept the one's that conflict with each other.
- Suzanne: YPALv 71 decade ago
They were never IN the Bible to begin with, so they cannot be "added back." If you read this "gospel" carefully and compare its theology to the Bible, you'll see it contains gnostic teachings (such as the concept of "Mother Earth") which conflict with Judaism and Christianity. So this "gospel" has no place in Scripture.
- Thomas PaineLv 51 decade ago
Jewish monks. Not much is known but they copied the Dead Sea Scrolls which verified the Book of Isaaih was accurate 1949.
