You may think, who the heck is 'Yeshua the Nazarene'?
That is probably what the first followers of the spiritual Master Yeshua (Jesus) called him.
They did not think of him a Jesus Christ, as someone who could miraculously save them from damnation through a so-called 'vicarious sacrifice'. They saw him more as their divine Teacher who through his Self-Realisation was their nearest and dearest being to God, the Loving Father (Abba). They loved Him, felt a great attaction to Him and wished to serve Him, directly and indirectly and were promised their own self-realisation, their own re-unification with the 'Holy (Cosmic) Spirit' or the 'Rule of God'.
They recalled and someone possibly wrote down many of his instructions and his other words in a document, that still existed when the authors of gMatthew and gLuke creatively wrote down their Christian gospels.
That document still came closest to the original teachings and it reflected the original mission of Yeshua the Nazarene before he became transformed into the Christian Jesus Christ.
That initial phase, when the mission was still controlled by Yeshua the Nazarene himself, did not last. Soon after that, a great confusion started and different missions sprang up developing their own competing types of myth and teaching around the great Master.
Somewhere in the second century a dominant sect got the upperhand, although initially it was still divided between a Roman branch and a Marcionite branch. That sect grew into the Christian Church. It had twisted and absorbed the original document to make it fit into the Christian myths and ideology and had in fact abused the original teachings by abandoning them and exchanging them for the teachings of the Church.
Several of the other sects survived for centuries more. But eventually they all became extinct and we know very little about their own myths and teachings because their scriptures were sadly enough no longer preserved and copied. We have to make do with what the Christians left us and with the analysis of how exactly they twisted and abused the original teachings of Yeshua the Nazarene.
How I wish I could take a time machine and talk to some of the original followers the Nazarenes about their relationship to Yeshua and His teachings.
That is probably what the first followers of the spiritual Master Yeshua (Jesus) called him.
They did not think of him a Jesus Christ, as someone who could miraculously save them from damnation through a so-called 'vicarious sacrifice'. They saw him more as their divine Teacher who through his Self-Realisation was their nearest and dearest being to God, the Loving Father (Abba). They loved Him, felt a great attaction to Him and wished to serve Him, directly and indirectly and were promised their own self-realisation, their own re-unification with the 'Holy (Cosmic) Spirit' or the 'Rule of God'.
They recalled and someone possibly wrote down many of his instructions and his other words in a document, that still existed when the authors of gMatthew and gLuke creatively wrote down their Christian gospels.
That document still came closest to the original teachings and it reflected the original mission of Yeshua the Nazarene before he became transformed into the Christian Jesus Christ.
That initial phase, when the mission was still controlled by Yeshua the Nazarene himself, did not last. Soon after that, a great confusion started and different missions sprang up developing their own competing types of myth and teaching around the great Master.
Somewhere in the second century a dominant sect got the upperhand, although initially it was still divided between a Roman branch and a Marcionite branch. That sect grew into the Christian Church. It had twisted and absorbed the original document to make it fit into the Christian myths and ideology and had in fact abused the original teachings by abandoning them and exchanging them for the teachings of the Church.
Several of the other sects survived for centuries more. But eventually they all became extinct and we know very little about their own myths and teachings because their scriptures were sadly enough no longer preserved and copied. We have to make do with what the Christians left us and with the analysis of how exactly they twisted and abused the original teachings of Yeshua the Nazarene.
How I wish I could take a time machine and talk to some of the original followers the Nazarenes about their relationship to Yeshua and His teachings.
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