I have heard people comment that Christianity today is so completely different than what Jesus taught in his day — and that is comparing their religions to their own bibles. More and more people are becoming disillusioned with Christianity today and are either just not going to church or are looking for some alternative. Those who are really concerned about what the Truth really are studying up on most recent discoveries to see what those ancient writers had to say about it before the orthodoxy had a chance to alter the truth and add their doctrines to it.
As I said before in another post, the gospel of the Nazirenes contains all of the doctrines that the Ebionites held. The Ebionites were declared as heretics by the roman church. The gospel of the Hebrews, we are told by church historians and church fathers, was the only gospel that they used and had no use for the epistles of Paul.
If the Ebionites were the first Christians, their doctrines were not likely to be heresy as they would have gotten their teachings directly from Jesus before the alterations that the roman church made. The church fathers have said that the Ebionites and the Nazarenes only used the gospel of the Hebrews written in Aramaic by Matthew. The gospel of the Hebrews, what few quotations that we have of it from the writings of the church Fathers, are contained in the gospel of the Nazirenes. It was in all likelyhood written very close to the time that Matthew’s gospel was written and almost certainly Matthew made a great contribution to it.
Since the gospel of the Nazirenes was one of the first gospels written in Aramaic and the original manuscript was not subject to the corruption of the roman church and, of course, assuming the translations of this gospel are fairly correct and accurate, then the gospel of the Nazirenes is in fact the closest thing that the world has to the truth and the exact teachings and life of Jesus.
The main key factor that points to the fact that the Ebionites were first century believers is the fact that they considered James, the brother of Jesus, to be the head of the church and the church at Jerusalem was the central church headquarters of Christianity. Since the Romans destroyed the temple at Jerusalem in 70 AD, and James was executed before that, then the Ebionites had to be among the first Jewish believers in Jesus since James died before the destruction of the temple.
There are complete passages in the gospel of the Nazirenes that not only do not appear in the canonical gospels, but they contain some doctrines declared heretical by many of the church fathers and others that are simply not contained in the bible. All of the beliefs of the beliefs that we know of the Ebionites are contained in the gospel of the Nazirenes. Some of doctrines not contained in the bible are:
1) Vegetarianism (21:8)
2) Condemnation of the Ill-Treatment of Animals (38:1-3)
3) Reincarnation (37:2-8)
4) Denial of the virgin birth (2:11-12)
6) Joseph the biological father of Jesus (8:8)
7) Miriam, Jesus’ first wife (6:13)
8 ) Mary Magdalene as the wife of Jesus (66:10)
9) Adoptionism: Jesus becomes son of God at baptism (8:2)
10) Obedience to the law of God for salvation (2:6)
11) Messiah named Yeshua not Jesus (2:6)
12) Jesus and John Baptist Nazirites (1:5, 2:7)
13) Isaiah 7:14 prophecy: translated “maiden” not virgin (2:11)
14) Jesus was a vegetarian (2:7)
15) James 2nd son born of Mary (5:22)
16) Joseph and Mary eat no meat nor drink strong drink (2:7, 6:1)
17) Jesus studied the law (6:14)
18) Jesus learned wisdom of the Egyptians (6:14)
19) Jesus was a Rabbi (6:15)
20) Jesus went to Assyria, India and Persia (6:16)
21) Jesus’ brother James taught around Jerusalem (6:24)
23) Did miracles by power of God (15:3)
24) Jesus taught unlawful to kill and eat animals (38:2, 71:4, 28:3)
25) Jesus prohibited disciples from eating meat (7:10, 21:8, 33:8, 17:7)
26) Ages of ages, not eternity (76:21)
27) God is the Father-Mother or Parent (11:13, 19:2-3, 24:2)
28) Jesus taught kindness to animals (4:5, 38:1)
29) Not found reference to Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
30) Jesus came to end sacrifices and feasts of blood (21:8)
31) Jesus denounced cruelty to animals (24:4)
32) Miracles were loaves and fruit not loaves and fishes (28:6)
33) Jesus taught obedience to “perfect” law for salvation (25:8)
34) Righteousness required to enter kingdom of heaven (25:10)
35) Jesus exhorts to keep the Sabbath (26:9, 41:7)
36) Blessed a tree and it florished, never cursed a tree (34:4-6)
37) Animals loved him and were not afraid (34:3)
38) Jesus taught Euthanasia for animals (47:3)
39) Jesus warned of the corruption of this gospel (44:12)
40) Jesus warns of time of great darkness (44:12)
41) Jesus gives a new law (46.9-21)
42) Jesus spoke against those who corrupted the law (28:3, 51:16-17)
43) Jesus said he was not equal to God, but one with God (55.12)
44) Utter destruction of unrepentant (67.15)
45) Correction of those who persist in evil for their perfection (69.3)
46) Judas brought a lamb to the last supper, Jesus forbids it to be killed (75.6, 76.27)
47) Judas didn’t believe they would put Jesus to death (76:30)
These are some of the main things that survived time and the orthodox corruption. It seems as though humanity is finally emerging from the Age of Deception and are beginning to see the light and realizing just how far the church fathers went to deceive the world. As people see more and more just how far off Christianity has gotten and have a real hunger for truth and righteousness, men will begin to return to the truth that Jesus bled and died to bring us. Only then will the Messiah usher in an era of world peace and unite all of humanity through the knowledge of righteousness.
6:19 “None shall hurt or destroy in my holy mountain. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the holy One even as the waters cover the bed of the sea. And on that day I will make again a covenant with the beasts of the earth, and the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea, and with all created things. I will break the bow and the sword. All the instruments of warfare will I banish from the earth. I will make the animals to lie down in safety, and to live without fear.”
6:20 “I will join you to me for ever in righteousness and in peace and in loving kindness; and you shalt know your God. The earth shall bring forth the corn and wine and the oil; and I will say to those who were not my people, ‘You are my people, and they shall say to me, ‘You are our God’.”