I would love to talk to you about early Christianity. The first sects developed after the death of Jesus were the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. I think there are a lot of bridges we can create by going back in the time to the 2nd Temple Era.
Every video on this channel is pure gold for anyone interested in the history of religion. It feels good to still be able to find such valuable content on RUclips. Thank you a lot for the effort you put into this channel. It is highly appreciated!
Filip's videos are always a delight to watch because he takes an in depth look into delicate religious subjects with a serious dedication to explain the topic in the least biased manner possible. There is also the fact that the comments almost always contain some absolute acid trips of confusion and madness, which is nice and the cherry on the cake for me. Looking forward to this one
All religions presented themselves as Llies when they denied Jesus his sacrifice! God is holy and therefore inevitably always righteous. So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he Never does wrong !! So Fact is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and merciful! Who is YHWH equal? Exactly no one!! JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A pure life for a life !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us fair and just !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of everything and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (Blood) !! God bless you
Great video however one caveat, while Ebonites are described as vegetarians that is a bit anachronistic and their diet today wouldn't be seen as vegetarian as they didn't consider fish or locust to be animals so their diet was limited to avoiding mammals and birds. Rod Preece, Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought p.124-6;
@@AmonsRealm to us yes, but not to them vegetarian, pescatarian are modern concepts, they would be described, by themselves and their contemporaries as those who do not eat flesh
I like that this presenter appears to have no "axe to grind," no "dog in the fight." This is merely history, as nearly as history can be determined. Subscribing today.
Yes, finally, the Ebionites. The earliest form of Christianity according to many scholars. Definitely interesting for people interested in the historical Jesus
I’d like to see a video on the Nestorian church. They were the most significant branch of Christianity out of the Roman sphere of influence and had a great deal of influence on Islam. They still exist today in India and Iraq, but at one point were spread as far as from Saudi Arabia to China and Mongolia.
@@goldsaint7 please Islam was a copy and paste of Christianity with heretical views nothing that the Quran says has any merit. A book that comes hundreds of years later after Jesus is supposed to be the truth? The book is all over the place and makes no sense just a bunch of rambling ls from a heat stroke old man
Let's talk religion. If you do a search, you will find the human is a virus, a plague on this planet. The naked ape enjoys status so much, he dreams of a deity being interested in him. The State & The Church are likewise authoritarian cults of wealth creation & preservation. The GOP uses Jesus-lingo as a uniform, their extreme lying, a demonstration of loyalty. Thanks to them, we have 500 years of looting & torture called the inquisitions.
In the XII century significant events take place, as described in the Gospels: the coming of Jesus Christ, his life and crucifixion, although the existing text of the Gospels was edited and most likely dates to the XIV-XV cc. In the mid XII century, in the year 1152, Jesus Christ is born. In secular Byzantine history he is known as Emperor Andronicus and St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called in Russian history he was portrayed as the Great Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky. To be more specific, Andrey Bogolyubsky is a chronicler counterpart of Andronicus-Christ during his stay in Vladimir-Suzdal Rus’ of the XII century, where he spent most of his life. In fact, the Star of Bethlehem blazed in the middle of the XII century. This gives us an absolute astronomical dating of Christ’s Life. [ЦРС], ch.1. ‘Star of Bethlehem’ - is an explosion of a supernova, which at present is incorrectly dated to the middle of the XI century. The present-day Crab Nebula in the Taurus Constellation is the remnant of this explosion. Enigmatic timber scarcity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages as first recognized by dender-pioneer Ernest Hollstein (1918-1988) "No sites exist anywhere with uninterrupted timber specimen from about 1000 CE backwards to Imperial Antiquity(1st-3rd c.). which is why the dendro-chronologies for Ancient Rome and, thereby the entire first millennium are in disarray. Since the very existence of the chronology periods without wood samples was never doubted by the researchers, nobody started to question our textbook chronology. Instead, out of stratigraphic context, scholars searched for wood samples in wells or moors to fill the irritating gaps. In addition, identical reign sequences were used twice in a row to gamer more years. Therefor, "all dendrochronological datings done on West Roman time wood is wrong by some unknown number of years"(")
Tawhid word is not present in quran., islam dod not correct anything., it polluted the pure relixion of yisrael and added pagan elements like kissing stones and running around cubes…
Is amazing. I call Jesus the liberator becasue he liberated people from the rituals and traditions, and taught what really matters to God. For example, to love God, have mercy on the rest of the world and live and help them.
There was no transition from Judaism to Christianity. The followers of Christ, the Church were already divorced from Judaism. The Apostles were kicked out from Synagogues and persecuted by mainstream Judaism.
@@joseportillo61 wht do u mean by liberate? Are u saying gods law was cursed.. Yes jesus taught pple spirituality but he didnt trhrow the law out of window.. like Christians do nowadays.. Drowning in immorality, fornication and sin is an direct consequence of abandonment of law which tells pple to do good and avoid evil.. Without law u can love God all u want but still be a sinfull person as u will have to idea how to live and wht to do.. about whts allowed and not.. Thts where islam comes its a balance of law and spirituality
Just want to say that I appreciate the time you take to teach us the history that happened alongside the "making" of all the different religions you've talk about. I'm not a religious person but I do like hearing the histories of these people's that are well-known now in our time, but long forgotten that they've actually existed once-in-a-lifetime. I don't know for me your videos gives me a certain of understanding to why there is even a religion to begin with. So for me I've founded out that religion is a oath that a human take to live among peace and to also not let their savagery instinct that had been passed by their primal ancestors to become the value of life itself. Yes evil still exists but its a better feeling knowing that the good is also out there among us.
Religion is a way of life and believes about God, after-life, death, purnishment and heaven. To put simply. What is the purpose of man's existence on earth?? According to Islam, God (Allah) created man so that man can Worship him alone, glorify him and perform good acts that will ultimately lead man to his salvation and eternal life in heaven. Failure to submit to God's authority and supremacy as well as not performing good deeds will lead man to God's displeasure and eternal purnishment. The most important element of the religion is believe in One God who created everything else. He alone deserves respect, worship, awe and glorification. This is called Tawheed (monotheism). Everything else besides him are false deities and sacrilege to the concept of monotheism. The most important figures of this conception of Tawaheed are Noah, Abraham, Moses and Muhammad. All were monotheistic preachers whom God sent to guide men and teach them this reality. They called for abandonment of other deities and beings that people held as devine or worthy of worship. Hence, the meaning of Lailaha illalah ( There is no god worthy of worship except God alone).
Understanding religion or not, it's in people interest. I disagree with the thinking that people need to form any kind of group or organization to make them feel there is a distinction between good and evil. It's God's existence that gives you confirmation about that kind of thinking, no matter when, where, or how many people like you out there. It's people who stray away from the only rightful definition of good and God. Hence, religions, not religion. Study long enough, read enough, then you will have the urge to seek out the truth. Seek truth, and you will find it.
It is even more fascinating to know that I have come to believe everything that Ebionates believe without even knowing that such a group ever existed until now. 😮
*ACTUALLY THE TRUE FOLLOWRS OF YESHUAH SAW HIM AS PROPHET NOT A DIVINE GOD, AND BASED IN TORAH TORAH MORAL MITZVAH IS FOR EVERYONE EVEN FOR GOYM NO JEWISH, GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IS EUROPEAN MADE EVEN NAZARINES DIDNT ANTHING TO DO WITH IT. IM A FORMER CHRISTIAN FOR OVER 35 YEARS AND CHRISTIAN MINISTER, BUT THE ANCESTOS WHO END THE LIFE OF THE JESUS WAS TERMINATED BY THE ANCESTORS OF CHRISTIANITYTHE EUROPEAN, AN THE BEST PROOF IS GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, ONE MORE TIME GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, NOT HEBEW TESTAMENT, THE HEBREW LANGUAGE WAS BOTH THE NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE OF FIRST CENTURY ISRAEL NOT GREEK, THE GREEK LANGUAGE WAS HATED IN THAT TIME, AND THE COMMON LANGUAGE NOT RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE WAS ARAMAIC, JEUS/YESHUAH I NIT THE THE TRUE PROPHET YESHUAH, BUT GECORROMAN GOD JESUS,HA SATAN INVENTION, EVIL INCARNATED.*
@@lisetriskel As a Muslim, I hold immense respect and love for Jesus as a prophet, but I follow Prophet Muhammad because of the authenticity and completeness of his message. The New Testament, which contains Jesus’ teachings, was not written directly by him but by various authors who compiled the texts from oral traditions and second-hand accounts. These texts are often introduced with phrases like “according to Matthew” or “according to John,” and the full identities of these authors remain unknown. Over time, the Bible has undergone significant changes, with more than 30,000 modifications and many verses being added or removed, raising questions about its consistency and authenticity. In contrast, we believe that Jesus came with a divine message centered on the oneness of God, worshipping with great humility, similar to how Muslims pray today. However, we believe that Jesus’ original teachings, known as the Injil, were corrupted over time by human additions, such as the concept of the Trinity and the belief that God died for humanity’s sins. Prophet Muhammad, on the other hand, brought the final and complete message from God, which aligns with the core teachings of all previous prophets, including Jesus, Abraham, and Adam. This message emphasizes the worship of one God (Allah) and living a life of righteousness. Furthermore, the Quran, which we believe to be the final scripture, has been preserved in its original form without any alterations, as Allah has promised to protect its authenticity. While we deeply respect Jesus and his teachings, we believe that the Quran represents the final, unaltered message from God, building upon the teachings of all prophets. Our faith is rooted in the belief in one God and the guidance provided through the Quran and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad. Following Prophet Muhammad does not mean disregarding Jesus’ teachings; rather, it means embracing a continuation and completion of the message that began with earlier prophets. Jesus is revered in Islam, and his message of monotheism and devotion to God is integral to our faith. The teachings of Muhammad provide a comprehensive guide for living a righteous life and worshipping God, preserving the essence of the messages brought by all previous prophets, including Jesus.
Another possibility for the the origins of the word “Ebion” could be from the arabic word “ابى" - “Aba” - To refuse. أبيون: “Abiune” : Those that refuse Possible do you think ????
Arabic and Hebrew are distantly related, so a lot of the root words sound similar. Case in point, 'ebyon' comes from an earlier root 'abah,' you can probably see the connection. Considering the location it probably comes from Hebrew.
@@jared_bowden It probably comes from Hebrew but I would definitely say that Hebrew and Classical Arabic are closely related not distantly. They're both West Semitic languages, that's very very close phylogenetically
5:33 I would disagree here given that Luke in Acts does record that while Peter and James were in the pro-circumsition camp initially, Peter later moved to the Paul's camp on that issue and while people would say "Acts isn't reliable" no, Luke has proven in his previous gospel to be as reliable as just about any ancient historian. But even then, Paul also records in Galatians of Peter coming towards his camp, tho still being pressured by the Judaisers to often outwardly pretend to be on their side, which Paul was calling out. Kinda interesting that they held James to such high regard given he was the first of the Apostles to die, meaning that he probably held to the position of the Judaizers until his relatively early death while most of the others would have flipped to the position of Paul and Peter.
These are two different James's (in our English translations, really Iakovos or Jacob). The James whose memory was held in high esteem by the Ebionite sect (although he was not one of the Judaizers that Paul had an ongoing dispute with) was James the Just, the brother of the Lord (martyred AD 62), not James the brother of John who died earlier.
Ebionites believes that Jesus wasn't born from a virgin (as in Jesus being biological son of Joseph) and crucifixion happened to Jesus, so it's also clashes with common Muslims' beliefs about Jesus (as Wine being partaked in rites is still parts of Kosher diet, but swine and those akin to crabs tend to be forbidden in Kosher dietary law of Ebionites, similar to Rabbinical Judaism), not to mention that the common Muslim beliefs of Jesus escaping Crucifixion presents in the Christian Gnostic Basilidean gospels & texts and certain Apocryphal Sethian texts instead of neither Ebionites, Nazarenes, etc But Ebionites also have certain similar beliefs with the Sufi Islam's Cosmology of Primordial Man created before Adam as a "Great Angel" (Logos or Christ), which is separate from human Prophet/teacher Jesus, which presents in Mystical Islam as "Nur Muhammad", similar to Valentinian concept of Aeon Anthropos (paired with Aeon Ecclesia, or Aeons Nous & Aletheia) or Sethian concept of Barbelo (as Androgynous creation with both masculine and feminine contradiction paired as a whole of creation template by Sethians), so there was even original mixing points between Gnostic tendencies and Jewish Christian tendencies even in the first century Remember, aside from Ebionites, a Jewish Christian with Gnostic-like beliefs akin to Cerinthus and Menander and even Simonians existed, each not just having James as their sources of Apostleship lineage (Or Sanad of Sahaba-Tabi'in) in Islamic terms), with Cerinthus dating even earlier than Ebionites and also have "weird" beliefs while also deeming Mosaic Law as necessary despite rejecting YHWH/Elohim as True God and more of a benevolent but deficient world-shaping Angel, Gnostic Justin's Book of Baruch also exists too as parts of the obscurity origin between "Gnostic" and "jewish-Christian" lineages and the "Church Fathers" also recorded them too, which makes things even more confusing to track down the origin, the original Jesus teachings might have combination between 'Gnostic'-like, 'Jewish'-like, 'Orthodox apostolic'-like, etc
1- We Muslims believe that Jesus, peace be upon him, is one of the greatest prophets of God, may blessings and peace be upon them all, and we believe that he is the Messiah And he will return at the end of time, and that will be a major sign of the Hour, as it is his mission to fight the Antichrist and to demonstrate the sincerity of the religion of Islam. 2- We also believe that he was born without a father, as his mother, Mary, peace be upon her, was a virgin (contrary to the belief of the Ebionites). And he was ordering the Children of Israel to follow the Torah and to fear God, and also to make lawful for them some of what was forbidden to them in the Torah as a punishment for their disobedience, for example the fat of clean animals and some other things (The one who allows and the one who forbids here is God Almighty, an Islamic example of that. The direction of Muslims’ prayer was Jerusalem, then God made it towards Mecca) 3- The thing that distinguishes Islam in believing in the Gospel is that it is the Book of God that He revealed to His servant Jesus, peace be upon him. As for the many Gospels that exist today, whether they are the known four or others, they contain part of the truth and cannot be fully trusted because their true authors are not known. The names were attributed later.
@Aurora Summer 1-Of course, my brother, faith, as you know, increases and decreases, as it is not stable, and this is the natural thing that is innate in the son of Adam Perhaps one of the reasons for losing faith are sins, failure to maintain prayer on time, bad company that wastes time, and staying away from the faith environment with which you are enthusiastic about doing good deeds. There is no human being who is free of sins or whose faith does not diminish. The struggle must be throughout life, and you are keen that your determination is not extinguished. 2- One of the best things to help you regain your faith and make it stronger than before is to contemplate the Noble Qur’an calmly, in which there is healing and mercy for the believers. You should also feel the greatness of God Almighty and His names and attributes Like He is the Holy, the Merciful, the Wise, and the Lord of all creation And you should feel that he is always watching you and always with you wherever you are. Raise your hands to the sky and prostrate and pray and weep before him and ask him to be firm on his religion. And be sure to choose good companionship that helps you in doing good deeds so that you will receive reward from God Almighty 3- These were some tips from your brother, who also needs the mercy and stability of God. We all face problems in life, and the only one who will make us overcome difficulties is God Almighty. ❤️
@@dani4157 Do you want to discuss religion with me and clarify the facts with their evidence? I accept the discussion with open arms and let us make the satisfaction of God Almighty upon us our goal. What do you say?
The four gospels were written in the same century as Christ's birth, life and crucifixion while the Quran is a work from centuries later. It's pretty obvious that the gospels are the more reliable source.
We muslims believe Jesus peace be upon him was a human a prophet messiah son of Mary who was born without father a sign and miracle for romans and jews
@@TheRoundtable_RTG both it is in Quran so our believe and faith is from God's book we dont believe or say things by our own selves but whatever is written in Quran and what our Prophet taught us And our Prophet also told us that Jesus will come 2nd time from heavens with 2 angels in modern day Syria where he will chase antichrist and kill him on the gates of Jerusalem and he will establish the global caliphate from Jerusalem that what you christans calls it the kingdom of heaven from Jerusalem i think
@@TheRoundtable_RTG i dont think so Because the prophices are being fulfilled and we are literally living in the times of antichrist in the times of great deceptions
The belief in the Future Messiah is arguably older than Judaism itself, also existing in Zoroastrianism, and other religious traditions. In 2nd Temple Judaism, there were different messianic ideas floating around: Basically one that of a Human Messiah, a Davidic King, and there's even the belief in two more messiahs: a Priest and a Prophet. And other of a Heavenly Messiah, the "Son of Man", the Son of God, the Son of the Most High, a Spiritual being who would sit on the throne of God and set in the Last Judgement. Most interesting thing about Christianity is that it conflates all of these notions: Jesus is the Davidic King Messiah, Priest, Prophet, the Son of Man, the Son of God.
In Islam there are two messiahs: Jesus's second coming and the Mehdi, the latter is supposed to be a just political leader not a prophet. They and the anti-christ are supposed to appear around the same time.
Being vegetarian, while seemingly a minor dietary quirk, actually makes a lot of sense within their framework. It's a pretty common belief that when moshiach comes that we will be vegetarians (and only the mincha offerings in the beis hamikdash). Rav Kook actually took it further promoting vegetarianism today to hasten the coming of the messiah.
While the oral torah was still being compiled somewhat contemporaneously, the belief in vegetarianism is mentioned in both talmud babli as well as the yerushalmi.
This is a world of mouths, where everything eats and is eaten, that even time itself will have you between its teeth and grind you down to the dust that you are. The body requires life in order to live, likewise you cut the sacrifice of sustainance to pieces with the serrations of your mouth. Don't you understand that creation and destruction are one? That there can be no life without murder, and there can be no murder without life? You hurl the corpses of the dead into your mouths and give thanks for their sacrifice, just as one day you will become food to other living beings just the same. And do not think yourselves better for eating leafs and drinking the sap, and do not think others worse for eating meat and drinking the blood. You yourself will deny your sacrifice to those who depend on it, thinking yourself wise and proper while you are arrogant in your understanding. Yet no one can destroy the life that is the spirit, who amongst man has the power to destroy that which is indestructible? You hypocrites, whoever has eaten the cow has also eaten the grass the cow is made of, and whoever has eaten the grass has also eaten the cow the grass is made of. When you die will you deny the world the food of your body also? Do you not understand that the life of the body cannot be destroyed nor wasted? That life itself cannot be killed but is merely passed on from one being to another? Cease your arrogance and frivolous pity, for these belong to the hypocrites and not to the righteous.
@@larocdokarnap3227 i make no comments on any individuals diet. I only point out that their prqctice of vegetarianism would have been seen within their cultural background as a normative practice for Jews who believed the messiah had come. It is even today a common belief among orthodox Jews that when the messiah comes we (Jews) will be vegetarian (technically pescatarian as Jewish religious law does not consider fish meat).
@@OhavYisrail God has given to man from every seed bearing plant and tree to everything that lives and moves about, for them to eat as food. Sometimes God requires a sacrifice of your crops and herds, he does not prefer one or the other cause God requires both, and so should you. The prophet declared all foods clean, he says not to worry about what you will eat, because God will provide what you need if you are willing to accept it. So if there is grain nearby he will lead you to it, and if there is meat nearby it will come to you. God does not offer bad gifts, you should never vow to yourself to not eat or kill anything at all, but be ready to accept it. It is exceptional luxury to eat or not eat according your desire or tradition. So if you are out in the field God offers you grain, if you are out in the wilderness God offers you meat, if you are out on the sea God offers you fish. The fish is not above the grain, nor is the meat above the fish, nor the grain above the meat, all of these are there to benefit you and you should despise none of them. Let rituals be understood for what they are, and the law be understood for what it serves to accomplish.
@@larocdokarnap3227 again my comment was not about any individual dietary choice, nor indicative of my own. It was about the cultural background of second temple judaism as it relates to the subject matter of the video. Please save your personal views of vegetarianism for someone who cares.
I'd seen this video on my recommendations before but I decided to go find it because I was wondering about the possibility of similar groups surviving into the 7th century and influencing Islam so I'm glad you included that part at the end :)
The speaker omits the crucial fact that the Ebionites appeared after the fall of the Jerusalem temple. Also their beliefs coincide with what we find in Galatians. Paul was clearly disputing with these same people, showing that Christianity arose at this time.
Thank you for covering this topic Philip, as someone who is inspired by the Dharmic traditions, seeing Jesus personally more as a God-realized Yogī, - He is mentioned as such in the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa - the Ebionite perspective is somewhat closer to my personal perspective. I’ve also heard many Muslim scholars point to the Ebionites as the original followers of Jesus from the Quranic perspective
That vision isn't supported by the Bible. In the Bible you don't gain spiritual status by "illumination". The original followers of Jesus were the Netzarim (Acts 24)
@@CarlosMdz72 Jesus never mentioned the Trinity either but many Christians follow that teaching. I am not Christian and I don't understand how people can have so many interpretations of the scripture. Seems like much of Christianity evolved over time.
From Islamic point of view, not exactly. Quran admited the virgin birth of Jusus peace upon him, his case as Adam created for uniqueness purpose, his massage extended from Moses as the case of Mohammed massage. He came to change many concepts such as the ethnicity such as the sons of God also he came to correct what was changed in the beleive due to human writing and translation based on culture, language and personal inclinations. As he will make radical shift that will cause backlash in the faith, affecting thought and emotion, and to absorbing that reactions he equipped with powerful miracles and the most powerful one is his birth.
Ebionites is one of the most interesting groups of "christians" ever existed! I would love to know more about their practices! Thank you for this excellent analysis.
As nazarene we are confused with ebionites which are said to be heretical for saying that jesus wasn't god's manifestation neither he's son born of a virgin, which nazarenes do not believe. The nazarenes or nazorene say to be the first christians. Paul and james did not disagree, it is about how you interpret their verses and about the fact that there are still nazarenes remaining and who admit that the bible suffered from miss traductions who change the meanings of these verse who look disagreeing and also the Jewish custom and culture of the time referred about in some of these verses not understable from pagan perspective 2000years later.
As Gabriele Boccaccini has pointed out, there are so many similarities between the Essenes (who referred to themselves as Ebionim "the poor") and the Jewish Christian Ebionites that the latter may have been a subset of the (Jewish) Essenes who also venerated Jesus.
There sure is much debate on who exactly Jesus was. At this point I don't think there's any way to find out so many people throughout history interpreted his life differently. Even all Christians don't agree on what he really was. This is why I couldn't never be religious there are countless different views on everything.
@@LisaAnn777the 1st criteria to find God is to question yourself who God is. God is most powerful, so God can't be weak. God is eternal and Immortal, so God can't be killed. God can't be ignorant and stupid. God can't be square circle. Can God create a stone that he can't lift? Or can't destroy? No. The stone that can't be lift or destroyed means the stone has attributes of God, and it means can God create God? No.
Thank you for another great video, Filip! I have always called them the EH-bionites. Before there were the gentile Christians who followed Paul, there were the Jewish Christians who followed Jesus. Paul basically hijacked the emerging Christian religion. This will indeed be a fertile field of study for future videos.
Paul didn't hijack it, he converted to Christianity Paul stopped killing when converted to Christianity Mhmd started killing when starting islam There's your difference
@@feduntu This is very probably the time of the great falling away prophesied of in the Bible. Heresy is rising to a fever pitch. Look to Islam for the coming Antichrist.
@@feduntu No, you are mistaken about this, as are the vast majority of Christian believers. And surprisingly enough, the clues are right in your Bible, in the Book of Acts, and Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. Yeah, Paul supposedly had his conversion on the road to Damascus, a story that Paul's wingman and PR agent Luke tells no less than three times in the Book of Acts - yet there are significant discrepancies in the details between all three accounts that would raise eyebrows in a court of law. Paul converted the fledgling Jesus movement to his own way of thinking at least as much as he himself was converted - that much is clear. Another thing that is clear from the Book of Acts is that Paul had major disagreements with James the Just, who both Paul and Luke call the Brother of the Lord (Jesus) . The original Jesus movement, and Jesus' original followers, were thoroughly Jewish and Torah observant, and we can safely assume that Jesus was also, which is backed up in the Gospel of Matthew. In chapter 15 of the Book of Acts, at the Jerusalem Council, Paul succeeds in getting James to agree to a drastically shortened list of Jewish observances. In chapter 21 of the Book of Acts, James orders Paul to go through a week long ritual of penance and purification to prove his allegiance to the Jerusalem Church and the Law, because James has heard by that point that Paul has been preaching to the Jews of the diaspora to forsake the Law of Moses, and the customs, and urging them not to circumcise their male children. At the end of this period of penance and purification, Paul goes down to the Jerusalem Temple to make a final offering, and he is confronted by an angry mob due to rumors that he has admitted gentiles into the temple to defile it, and also that he has been preaching against the Law. This bad blood between Paul and the Jews is so serious that there are even plots to murder him that are so serious that Paul finally reveals his Roman citizenship and is escorted by armed guard to the Roman port city of Caesarea to save his life. Read this in chapters 21 to 23 of the Book of Acts. You can also read about Paul's haughty, defiant attitude towards the Jerusalem Church leadership, and his confrontation of Peter, another leader or pillar of the Jerusalem Church in Antioch, calling him a hypocrite to his face. You can also infer from Paul's haughty, defiant attitude that he does not submit to their authority. The original schism between the gentile followers of Paul and the Jewish Jerusalem Church of Jesus' original Jewish followers came along so early in the history of Christianity that it totally falls under the radar of most Christians - but it happened, and written evidence of it is there, even in your Bibles. And even Luke in the Book of Acts, who is otherwise eager to portray Paul in the best light possible, cannot cover up these serious schisms and disagreements between Paul and the original Jesus movement; to his credit, these conflicts were so large and significant that Luke had to admit them, and could not gloss over them or sweep them under the rug.
@@naiman4535 what part is the mistake abdool? Did mhmd not commit murder after converting to Islam? Yet Paul did the opposite when converted to Christianity, that alone is good enough argument to debunk your 7th century Nestorian stone worshipping beliefs
Strangely enough, over the course of 21 years of my life after studying most of that time, I ended up with beliefs just like the Ebionites. I do not have faith anymore but I still practice many of the ideas found in the Ebionites.
@@senu6046 No belief in the preexistence, deity, or resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. No belief in faith-based salvation. No embellishment from the texts added much later or the teachings of Paul. What we find in the original followers of the Nazarene is radically different than what we find in later additions from the so-called followers of Jesus of Nazareth. In essence, be a good person, do good works, repent of bad practices, and seek grace from the Divine.
@@pillow7672 Not really, I am not a follower of any Scriptures but rather take the wisdom from them. I am far too skeptical to accept the things people say on faith because I know my limitations. I practice love and forgiveness as well as compassion to all people, whether Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist. I am not fit to judge anyone, that is up to the Divine who I dare not claim to be able to comprehend or understand. Love to you kin. 🥰
Great video! It's pretty interesting how circular is the history of Christianity. This debate could easily be had during the Reform in the 1500 or between an atheist and a believer 5 minutes ago. Nothing really new.
Matthew 4:1 Jesus was tempted James 1:13 God cannot be tempted John 1:29 Jesus was seen John 4:12 No man has ever seen God Acts 2:22 Jesus was and is a man sent by god Numbers 23:19 God is not human Hebrews 5:89 Jesus had to grow and learn Isaiah 40:28 God doesn't need to learn Corinthians 15: 3-4 Jesus Died Timothy 1:17 God cannot Die Hebrew 5:7 Jesus needed salvation Luke 1:37 God doesn't need Salvation John 4:6 Jesus grow weary Isaiah 40:28 God cannot grow weary Mark 4:38 Jesus Slept Psalm 121: 2-4 God Doesn't Sleep John 5:19 Jesus is not all powerful Isaiah 45: 5-7 God is All powerful Mark 13:32 Jesus wasn't all knowing Isaiah 46:9 God is all knowing So, Christians please read Bible carefully. Do you really think Trinity is real?
I love how much more professionally produced and polished your content as got over time as the channel as grown but you stick to using your original opening still of you standing looking deep in thought infront of the religious symbols. I like that 👍🏻
I am often surprised by how little one knows of early Christianity, the ebionites I heard of lately, they were derided by early church fathers like Eusebius as the poor ones and heretics though they claim continuity with James brother of Jesus. The gradual realization is borne out that much of early Christianity seem different from current dogma.
The Bible says that there were heretics with the Antichrist spirit from the very beginning, and that they broke away from true Christianity. The orthodox forms of Christianity are true, because if they weren't, they would have vanished from history. Instead, they have become the largest identifiable faith on Earth. Meanwhile, Ebionites and all these other heresies disappeared very early.
@@sechrima9998 your presumption then is that the more "Orthodox" or large the following a group is the more "truthful" they are bound to be. A large number of people may display preferences for pop songs than classical ones yet it does not imply the former is the most true form of music. What is dominant/Orthodox can be a function of power and the interpretations of that power. Imperial Rome was the most powerful state at the time, once it adopted Pauline Christianity as the official state religion of Rome and empire it set about harmonizing Christianity as a common faith by persecuting all those who hold plural views of religion including their texts which were now branded heresies with consequences for those who bore them, the might and power of roman imperial reach meant it succeeded to a large extent. Consequently what we now call the bible codified largely by church leaders aligned to Rome and roman values became the only sanctioned narrative of Christianity, thus all the rich diversity of Christianity such as those relating to James the just, brother and successor of Jesus who knew him better than all was left out and those apologetic to Rome brought in. Even more poignant is the fact that Jesus a Jewish man who practiced the Jewish faith, and upheld Jewish law lived in an environment of political fervour with most Jews opposed to Rome and hankering after messianic tendencies for both a political figure a davidic descendant and a spiritual messiah possibly of levite heritage to free them from what they perceived as a pagan power constantly imposing demands upon them. Jesus like his brethrens were in opposition to Rome, Jews do not kill by crucifixion, and why would they celebrate the killing of their fellow country men when most of them shared the hopes of messianic redemption ? As such Rome once it adopted Christianity would not countenance the idea of a Jewish upstart who challenged Rome, hence the Pauline strain of Christianity which allowed for accomodation with Rome and watered down Jewish law was accepted. Alas with money and power an entity such as Rome can decide what is truth, or best standard and what is not and this became received literature constantly reproduced over time. The ebionites like many early christians before Rome were Jewish sect, they did not differ much with the Jewish faith save the claim of Jesus as prophet and messiah which they upheld, some may have folded back in to Judaism but some of the teachings of these early christians and immediate successors to Jesus wound it's way in to Islam so their teachings in some form is still extant.
@@Adad-ki5dh James may have known Jesus the man best, but he was neither the best disciple nor the leader of the disciples according to Jesus in the Gospels. Those distinctions belonged to John and Peter, both of whom were apostles to the Romans. If James attempted to use his familial ties to Christ to impose himself as the leader of the disciples after Christ’s ascension to Heaven, then he did so against the express wishes of the Lord as confirmed by the Holy Spirit. If God had wanted to save the world by means taught by the Ebionites, then he would have preserved the Ebionites. Instead, he gave the historic victory to the orthodox traditions. The greatest disciples were sent to the Romans, to carry out the Great Commission of converting the pagan gentiles. That James lingered among the Jews and attempted to gain some spurious inherited authority even suggests that he was less obedient to Christ’s commands than the others. If Islam indeed has roots in Ebionite traditions, then it only confirms that the Bible’s warnings of the Antichrist are true, and we should look to Islam for his coming.
@@sechrima9998 James did not linger among the Jews he is a Jew as was Jesus, it is preposterous to think that Jesus (yeshua) was an apostate to the Jewish faith. Even Paul and Peter talked about the church in Jerusalem under James the brother of the lord, Paul even recognized their authority he referenced at one instance of carrying donations to the church in Jerusalem, not to mention the illustrious incident in which delegations from the Jerusalem church berated him for his revisionist teachings of Jesus Christ to the gentiles whom he admonished not to partake in Jewish laws. The bible is a collection of narratives cherry picked from amongst many come to think of it how do these Jewish apostle nutured in Jewish law of works and faith come to celebrate partaking symbolically in drinking blood, eating flesh, trinitarian concepts and other things that would have stirred utter repulsion .
@@Adad-ki5dh Of course God can’t be an apostate. Jesus was the fulfilment of Jewish faith. Jesus’ final command to his disciples was to preach to all the nations. If James stayed home, then he was neglecting his responsibilities. That’s not to say he wasn’t Christian, just that he was imperfect. He took authority upon himself that the Lord never assigned to him. Paul obviously went along with James to maintain unity (a matter of great importance to Paul), not necessarily because he agreed with James. There was no need to create a schism in the Church over those matters at that time. The fact that you don’t understand the Eucharist tells me all I need to know about you. Perhaps your name is not written in the Book of Life, as you seem spiritually blind. You need to read John 6 carefully. I pray the Father will give you to the Son.
I have been fascinated by James the Just and the Torah observant followers of Jesus since trading of James as a 16 yr old schoolboy. A quote from a book I once read goes something like “ what are we to make of the passing parade of Nazarites, Rechabites Zealots and Zadokites who inhabit the background if the Gospel story?” There is much more to the story of the Ebyonim such as what the Pseudo Clemintines might tell us. Imagine how marvellous it would be if a cache is Ebyonite documents were to be discovered, ( sigh ). .. if only!
Steven it should have read since learning of James the Just as a 16 year old. By the time i posted it spellcheck had changed it. Glad you picked it up though as it shows that someone is reading my posts ha!!
I am a Muslim and in my study to interpret words in my al-Quran and going extra-Quraic & Hadith, I tried to dig the Bibles for clues. And I must say I found a lot of it in one non-canonised gospel which is available in the net. It is called "The Gospel of the Holy Twelves" a. k a. " The Gospel of the Nazarenes". It is just that there are many of the Jesus narratives in there that suggest strong interconectivities with narratives in the al-Quran, especially I the construct of a scriptural "6 Day Creation" and Semitic reincarnation hypothesis / theory / doctrine. Salam/Shalom/Namaste
Jesus Christ has nothing to do with the child raping false prophet Muhammad or his vile filth and lies in the Qur’an. Jesus Christ accepted the worship of his disciples (Matthew 28:16-28:20) before his ascension into heaven and he proclaimed himself to be the Son that Daniel the prophet spoke that was seated at the right hand of the Father (Daniel 7:13-14 & Matthew 26:57-75), none of which has anything to do with the false god allah. However, he did note the likes of the false prophet Muhammad were inevitable in Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's. clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
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could you make a video of the following topic: "different versions of Jesus life from age 5 to 30"? There are many teories, and it would be intersting to find out how you investigate them to find out which seems to have any chances to be true. Some of them say that Jesus traveled to places as far east as India an Kashmir and was influence by buddist texts and teachings, others say hindu vedic texts, etc. There are also countless theories what happen to Jesus after deth - from resurection to escape and preaching to people from very distant land like England, Japan, and America... they all seem a bite fantastic but it's intersting that they all have their own followers today and some become even very popular like Mormonizm. Could you explore this topic more? It would be appreciated.
What do you think of the possibility alleged by some historians that the Ebionites were similar to today's Messianic Jews, in that instead of being Jesus-following Jews continuing the Jacobian tradition they were actually Christians who reverted back into Judaism then adopted James as their progenitor?
@@michaels4255 It's the original accusation made by Irenaeus against Ebionites. He specifically called them "Judaizers", which in his understanding were Christians who went back to their Judaistic roots. While Justin Martyr talked about Jewish Christians who kept the Law, he never called them Ebionites. So the very first documentation of Ebionites we have from their contemporaries started with the accusation that they were Christians who went back into the Law, instead of Law-abiding Jewish Christians. This is why some historians have argued to separate Justin's account from Irenaeus'.
When I point out to a devout Christian that early Christianity was extremely diverse, I get the same reply. That god made sure that the “true” Christianity would win out; hence what we call Orthodoxy is what god wanted. Got rid of all those “heretics” such as the Ebionites, Gnostics, Marcions, etc.
It’s interesting Paul’s perspective won out for Gentiles, when the half brother who actually knew personally our Messiah, James was not considered to know better the obedience God desires for all men.
Great video, I enjoyed it. Apparently, these folks (or some similar group) were last heard of sometime in the 12th century. I wonder if they were persecuted to extinction or died out through failure to proselytize. Also interesting is that, as nominal vegetarians, one of the raging controversies of early Christianity, namely the consumption of meat sacrificed to pagan gods, would have been utterly outside their belief system.
A question I like to pose to all who want to look into these splits is this. Why do Christians adhere more to a Pauline Christian theology, when Paul never met Yeshua? On the other hand, James the brother of Yeshua, was left in charge, and seems to be all but forgotten within the religion. Who's more credible? The eye witness, or the persecutor. Yes one can change, like from Saul to Paul, but the question really is, why does James differ from Paul's teachings. I say look in to the past. I would start at 70 A.D.
@@gianlucarossi5672 James and his community likely did "believe in" the Yashua (Jesus) the Christ (anointed), just differently from Paul/Saul and others.
Awesome comment. It s because they want to believe the pauline christianity, the mythology that paul created. And they won't search into the past because they don t want to know the truth. That is that yeshoua the Man that existed, is not the Christ of faith who is only a fiction, a mythology created by the imagination of Paul.
It seems, from Acts, that even after Paul's (also Jewish first) influence that Christianity was meant to have a group of people who followed the Jewish covenant as well as those who didn't need to. The deep asketic tradition in Christianity that took root and continues today (in many long- founded monastic groups) is still rooted most deeply in the Psalms of David, those works Jesus himself quoted most often.
Dan , I am Jewish and you are correct. It is counter-intuitive. If Jesus was a religious Jew he did NOT think the Mosaic law applied to genitiles. Most think since he himself is perfectly following the Mosaic Law he must have wanted gentiles to. That was not the belief of religious Jews in the first century.
Everything the Ebionites believed in came straight from either Jesus, Matthew and James. They truly looked up to Matthew and followed his actual books completely.
Exactly.This gentleman and religion for breakfast have really helped on my way through a very difficult existential crisis. The most important ingredient for that which caught my attention was this stern academic impartialism. This was a crisis which continued for the past 25 years, since my teens almost solved in 2 years with serious reading and watching videos for direction. I feel i have created many more intriguing questions in the past 2 years, but never waste time or lower my quality of life anymore, for someone else's historical perspective (modern religion)
Why is the story and the traditions of the Ebionites reminding me of the traditions and life styles of my people in east Africa, i.e., Tigraians? Tigraians are of Semitic origin but they are Orthodox religion followers. However, their traditions are almost entirely Jewish and they have many elements of the Ebionites mentioned in the video. May be some Ebionites made it to that part of the world at some point of time.
From the 2012 online article: "What do you know about the Ebionites and the Nazarenes?" by John Oakes: "Another heretical group in the first century was known to later Orthodox Christians as the Ebionites. The name derives from a Hebrew word meaning “the poor ones.” Unlike the Judaizers, the origin and exact nature of what this group taught is somewhat obscure. Although their beginning was certainly in the first century, we do not have a New Testament book directed against this teaching (unlike the Judaizers and the Gnostics). Eusebius reported that the Ebionites were descended from the Jewish Christians who fled across the Jordan River to Pella when Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70. We cannot take this as authoritative, but it is logical as this was an essentially Jewish sect of Christianity which taught the necessity of obeying the Law of Moses. In this sense, of course, they were like the Judaizers, but they went much farther from the apostolic message. In the words of Eusebius, “They considered him a plain and common man and justified only by his advances in virtue.” In other words, according to Eusebius, this group denied the deity of Jesus. They also denied the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection of Jesus. They demanded observance of the Sabbath, yet they worshipped Jesus on Sundays. Eusebius’ comments are polemical in nature. It is possible he exaggerates their teaching. Justin Martyr described groups much like the Ebionites in his book Dialogue with Trypho. Irenaeus applied the label Ebionite to Judaizing Christians in AD 180. The church fathers agreed that this group rejected most of the New Testament, using only a Hebrew translation of Matthew they called the Gospel of the Hebrews." "Liberal scholars have tried to create the impression that the Ebionites were a major movement which represents the original teaching of Jesus Christ more accurately than traditional, Orthodox Christianity. Their conclusions reflect more their own anti-Christian predilections than the historical facts. Although this Jewish sect of Christianity did create a bit of a ripple in the early church, all the evidence supports the idea that from the very beginning they were a small group. In fact, their importance may have been exaggerated both in what they taught and their influence in order to serve as a foil against which the church fathers taught. There is no reliable evidence that the heretical groups which came to be known as Ebionites were ever anything other than a minor Jewish sect of Christianity which tried to hold on to their Jewish identity after AD 70 when Christianity moved decisively away from its Jewish roots."
It seems like Islam by embracing Christian monotheism absorbed "heretical" Christians and Jews who liked moral and spiritual aspects of Christianity but couldn't deal with the "paganism" in the orthodoxy over time. Its interesting to think how many of these groups would still be around.
Not really there isent substantial evidence for splinter groups of Christians living in Arabia. A lot of the early Christian’s were murdered by the orthodox institution of Christianity.
@Lalibela Dogo Indeed, I would believed that Islam is just a 'brand' name made by the followers. prophet Muhammad even said that His teaching is to conform the teachings of the previous prophet and their books, just like Jesus have said.
As a Unitarian I've wondered if this group could be considered to be one of my faith's "ancestors" although we don't have many Jewish (or traditional Christian) features nowadays. 11:06 that reminded me of Thomas Jefferson's Bible even though he went further and took out all the supernatural aspects of the Gospel stories.
You are correct they were in many ways the father of the faith . But what happened was the Church so hated them they branded them as heretics and crushed them. I am Jewish so they are of great interest to me. But I don't want to give you a wrong impression . Their theology was not always correct. The book of Isaiah has a "Unitarian flair " to it (and the Jewish Messiah was taken mainly from Isaiah). Isaiah clearly said the Messiah would be "for the world" and they said Jesus was only for the Jews.
Be careful of that though it does seem to make logical sense. Many only believed in the miracles , both Jew and Gentile . Why would you exclude those wonderful people. In the Torah it says , if you recite a Hebrew prayer and do not know what the Hebrew means (very common among Jews) the prayer goes still goes to heaven.
Great video. Learning about the Ebonite's was a key phase in my deconstruction of Evangelicalism. I had the idea that there was this perfect "ur-Christianity", but that's very clearly not the case. But that's ok, because every religion is like that, which is part of the fun in studying them.
My Episcopalian priest explained it using a metaphor of tree. All kinds of trees but anyone can look at them and go “yup that’s a tree”. Are their edge cases like the Banzai or certain woody bushes? Sure, but the category still stands
Yeah - talk about deconstructing the evangelicals - now those are some people who seriously need to be deconstructed! They're so keen on ferreting out heresy and false doctrine because the truth is that THEY were the first heretics, and Paul, their founder was the original apostate from the true faith.
@@tesmith47 But, this doesn’t mean they can’t point to truths. The idea of certain particles or various elements of nature envisioned in antiquity was just abstract metaphysical speculation until science and experimentation started confirming some of these ideas. I think of some kind of God or creator in the same way. Yeah like all ideas, it’s man-made, but that doesn’t automatically make it false.
Both the Essene Ebionim and Christian Ebionites called their life style "The Way." Both were vegetarian. Both emphasized a simple, austere way of life. Both embraced a "Two Ways" doctrine and contrasted the "children of light and darkness." Both were apocalyptic. Both shared their belongings within their community. Both believed in resurrection/eternal life and had an eschatological view of "the end times." Both revered angels. Both considered the Book of Enoch to be scripture.
@@davidlissowski5030 David, that was John's take on what Jesus said. I was referring to the fact that the followers of Jesus referred to their faith as "the way," just as the essenes did.
@@davidlissowski5030 Also found in the Didache: "There are two Ways: a Way of Life and a Way of Death, and the difference between these two Ways is great. The Way of Life is this: "Thou shalt love first the Lord thy Creator, and secondly thy neighbour as thyself...""
He was a Jew who said “I came to uphold the law not to replace it”, he also celebrated Passover- that was the last supper. Greeks turned him into a pagan god.
Very interesting as usual Filip, and it kinds of confirm my view that Paul was the "inventor" of Christianity as we know it, while he, Jesus, came as a prophet in the line of the previous prophets, and never meant to create his own religion and name it after himself.
Can you make a video about the Native religions of the Caucasus? I heard it is a bit more in Abxazia and the non native religions in Caucasus were effcted by them. They get almost no attention
Nice clear summary of first century events. I highly recommend Reza Aslan's book "Zealot" and Monty Python's movie "Life of Brian". It can't be emphasized enough how many "messiahs" and splinter groups were part of the scene at the time. Kind of like upstate New York in the early 19th century but without the Roman wine, aqueducts, sewer systems, low crime rates... The fact that Paul was literate and saw recruitment and spread as prime directives left James and his crew in the dust.
The core belief that Jesus was there to make subtle amendments to Judaism rather than totally rejecting it is also in line with the views of Islam, with Jesus calling himself "a Prophet to the sons of Israel" and that he is sent to allow "some" of what they'd been forbidden to do. Their presence in Arabia is definitely an exciting topic
If James; brother of Jesus was Jewish and obeyed the Jewish law and had a Church of Jewish followers; who followed their own gospel according to very Jewish customs, why would it be written in Greek or Aramaic. Would these lost gospels been written in Hebrew, for a Jewish audience living in Jerusalem? Thoughts?
By the 1st century Hebrew (meaning Paleo-Hebrew; the language of the Jews of the OT) was an archaic language that wasn't commonly spoken anymore. Hebrew started to die out as a spoken language around 600 years before Jesus at the time of the invasion by the Babylonians. This was replaced by Aramaic, and by the time of Jesus, Jews in Jerusalem and the Holy Land would have been speaking either Aramaic or Greek as their first language. Hebrew would have been a language that only Rabbis and those who studied the Torah would have been taught and understood. It would probably have been to Jesus and his followers much like Old English or Latin is to the average English speaking person today. The original gospels were almost certainly written in Greek, although some scholars believe they may have been written in Aramaic first and then translated into Greek. But either way, these are the languages that the average 1st century Jew would have understood and used on a daily basis.
Loved this! Wonder if the prophet Muhammad first wife “Khadeja” has anything to do with the ebonites mindset. I recall something about her initially being Christian before accepting islam
khadeja(r.a) belong to a arabian monotheistic sect called 'hanif',these people didn't associate their religion with jews or christians,they believed that this was the religion of their father(ishmeal) and didn't sacrifice animals to idols.They just believed in the god of abraham.
Muhammad's wife khadija was following the religion of pre islamic quraish There is a recorded authentic hadith in musnad ahmed that muhammad says to her he will never worship allat or uzza this imply she worshiped the arabian gods before Muhammad's first revelation Her cousin maybe was an ebionite Aisha, the wife of Muhammad said that waraqa was writing the gospel in hebrew the mainstream christinity write the gospels in greek or latin but the ebionite wrote in hebrew maybe this is why waraka was interested in muhammad's encounter in cave hira
I just remembered that I once went to a Lecture at Macquarie University in which the speaker indicated he thought there was a “ seperate” Jesus movement in the Galilee centred around the family of Jesus but he offered no proof or evidence. I always wondered what it might have been as there was certainly something happening in Damascus at the time of James in Jerusalem.
There supposedly have been some mosaics found in the Gailee area which poss show Jesus (and Mary - and choose your own mary to fit I guess), but there might be a difference between 'Worship' and following the words attributed to Jesus in terms of lifestyle within the general Jewish, monothestic, framework.
@@highpath4776 yes. Certainly the sense one gets from writings such as Thomas is that knowing Jesus’ words and acting in them is the supreme task. Actually this is emphisized in John 15 also …. Know and do the words of Jesus. Unfortunately I have met so many folk who have “faith” but are blissfully ignorant of the majority of what Jesus said except for a handful of favourite chapters which the read over and over for their psych- spiritual comfort.
I have long wondered when the Ebionites split off, because, if they were there in Paul's churches, then, as people began to perceive Jesus as G-d, Paul would have been talking about how to reconcile this difference - to people who recited the Sh'ma every day (there is only one God), and well before the development of the concept of the Trinity, this would have been completely unacceptable. But Paul didn't talk about that - the conflict he talked about, between Jewish and Gentile church members was over food, and his stricture was more of the nature of 'since some of your congregation don't eat pork, it isn't nice to bring bacon butties to the shared meal'.
This is an interesting bit of History, I'm sure you are familiar with the book of Sirach. I was reading through it a couple weeks ago and noticed something rather interesting, the exact layout and wording of that book is almost identical to the middle length discourses of the Buddha. Now I know Yeshua Ben Siroc is not remembered as Jesus but some people do believe that this man was Christ and that the two figures were one in the same. I have no idea simply because I haven't read that much into it but if that is Jesus then this video ties together the Buddha and Christ that much more. I know there's discrepancies with the dates however as imperfect beings that we are we have a tendency to get small things wrong, it's just food for thought and I think it's highly fascinating because what if actually those two figures are one in the same?
@@elsoil3387 well you can start with the book in the Buddha's words and obviously the book of sirach, not bringing God into this the wording of everything and its meaning are the same between a lot of passages and in the same order
When I hear something like this, my first thought is typically to inquire into the dating of the texts. Unfortunately, such efforts seem to have been applied much less thoroughly to texts outside the western tradition, but such work as has been done indicates that the dates of composition of all of the Buddhist canon is very uncertain. For example, I found this with google: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li_Canon Scholars generally agree that the early books include some later additions.[52] Aspects of these late additions are or may be from a much earlier period.[53][54][55] Other aspects of the Pali Canon, such as the information about society and South Asian history, are in doubt because the Pali Canon was extensively redacted in the 5th- or 6th-century CE, nearly a thousand years after the death of the Buddha.[10] Further, this redacted Pali Canon of Sri Lanka itself mentions that the compilation had previously been redacted towards the end of 1st-century BCE. According to the Early Buddhism scholar Lars Fogelin, the Pali Canon of Sri Lanka is a modified Canon and "there is no good reason to assume that Sri Lankan Buddhism resembles Early Buddhism in the mainland, and there are numerous reasons to argue that it does not." AND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majjhima_Nik%C4%81ya The Majjhima Nikāya (-nikāya; "Collection of Middle-length Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture....Composed between 3rd century BCE and 2nd century CE. Ecclesiasticus was written by ben Sirach circa 180 BC. Thus any influence (and I have not read the Buddhist canon so I am in no position to weigh in on the evidence for or against borrowings) could have gone in either direction, but there appears to have been more time for it to flow from Hellenized Judaism to the Indian subcontinent than vice versa.
@@michaels4255 I believe it's the diamond sutra which is not theravada Buddhism but mahayana which is a huge difference but going through that sutra you will find similarities with the book of sirach.
Filip, I LOVE your channel, and this is a great video. One caveat: most contemporary Paul scholars agree that Paul does not free Jewish followers of Jesus from Torah, but only insists on gentile inclusion apart from rites of conversion/Torah observance. This view-the “Paul Within Judaism Schule”-is rightly displacing the “New Perspective.”
Hey, Perennial Digression! I'm a subscriber of both your and Filip's work so very cool to see you here. I used to do a lot of reading in Wright's "New Perspective," his Paul trilogy, etc. What's the definitive work from the "Paul Within Judaism" School? Thanks!
Paul is definitely not a friend of the Jewish christians, James the Just and Peter. Even if Paul was more pro Torah then was suggested, Paul failed in that and because of his letters, gentile christianity emerged and took over the original jewish teaching of Jesus. I believe 95% of all that is because of Paul, wether he meant it or not
@@jasonstewart7834 His letters are addressed to his apostolate: gentiles. He should not be conflated with his later readers who assumed his intentions were antisemitic.
In any religious or intellectual or cultural conflict there are 'winners' and 'losers.' While the 'winners' usually write the history, the 'losers' are so fascinating. The Apostle Paul and his followers became the 'winners' in this early debate over Christianity's relationship to Judaism and the Ebionites became the 'losers' and as a result are so interesting. I think part of the reason that 'losers' are so fascinating is the counterfactual question: "What if?" What if the 'losers' had won? How would the course of history have changed? What if the Ebionites had become the 'winners"? What would Christianity look like today? It probably wouldn't be the largest religion in the world as it is presently. Paul's more universalist and less rigorous version of Christianity helped Christianity to adapt to many different cultures and aided it's future growth.
Hey bro! Great video! James and Peter were not apposed to Paul, peter baptized the first gentile believers in the Church Acts ch 10, and also advocated that the Gentile believers of Jesus weren’t permitted to follow The Law which James agreed on in the Jerusalem counsel Acts 15:5-21. Peter affirms Paul and even his writings as scripture in 2peter 3:14-16. there is no writings to my knowledge suggesting Paul, Peter and James were against each other but that they were moving in a way to advance Gods message starting with the Jews and then moving on to including Gentiles who took on faith to the Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ.
Another interesting video here ! Quick correction/contention at 5:35. James and Peter were *not* the ones who argued that gentiles should have to convert to Judaism,circumcise, nor follow mosaic law. In fact James agreed with Paul but simply tried to reach a compromise. This whole situation is best highlighted in the Council of Jerusalem (51 AD) found in Acts 15. It was specifically the Jewish converts who were former Pharisees who were arguing for gentiles to convert ; Acts 15:5 [5] But *some believers* who belonged to the *party of the Pharisees* rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” Peter then responds disagreeing with the Pharisees and supporting Paul ; Acts 15:7-13 [7] And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers ……. [10] Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?” Lastly James, the brother of Jesus and the de facto leader agrees with Paul, and finalizes the matter ; Acts 15:19-20 [19] Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, [20] but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.” This turned out pretty long lol, but in conclusion it was mainly the Pharistic sect of Jewish Christians (who the Ebionites would truly mimic down the line) who held that position. Peter and James were actually in agreement with Paul and after consideration formed a compromise and consensus. Not saying you did so here, but a lot of people like to exaggerate the rift between Paul and the disciples (+James). I Don think that to be the case.
The problem with the evidence you present is that it was written by a Pauline Christian who would have reason to misconstrue the events as favouring Paul’s interpretation of events. It also isn’t historically accurate, not being written by an eyewitness at all.
@@mugikuyu9403 “written by a Pauline Christian “ That’s a Genetic Fallacy right there, the position of the source for the documentation of the council of Jerusalem has no bearing on whether it was transmitted faithfully. To assume that, we would need to see some evidence of misconstruing of the account. “not historically accurate, not being written by eyewitness at all” Firstly an account doesn’t need to be written by an eyewitness in order to be historically accurate. We have 0 eyewitnesses sources for Hannibal’s trek into the Alps for example , doesn’t mean the accounts we have are automatically historically inaccurate. With that said, that’s also not true, the author of Acts states that he was present when Paul returned to Jerusalem after the council, and met with James when James was issuing the the letter that agreed with Paul’s position. This can be noted from acts 20:6 when the author begins to use “us” and “we” as he accompanies Paul. And specifically when the meet James in Acts 21:17-18 it states “[17] When *we* had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. [18] On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. Thus not only was the author an eyewitness to James stating that he sent out a letter to the gentiles during the council affirming Paul’s position (Acts 21). But he also would’ve had the opportunity to verify the accounts of the council back in Acts 15. Now to be fair, this is what the author claims, and since we weren’t there we can’t confirm or deny that with 100% certainty. But there is 0 basis to simply say definitively that the author is not an eyewitness. Also regarding historical accuracy the author of acts is extremely precise in his historical documentation. For more on this, see “The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History” by Colin Hemer were he lays out 80+ historical facts Acts gets correct about it’s era & region. Cheers.
Interesting topic, especially for Muslims, as this is one of the major conflicts depicted in the Quran regarding Jesus. According to the Quran, Jesus was sent to Jewish people. He was never called "Jewish" but he's certainly a "messenger" and "prophet" sent to Jewish people (Quran 3:50). The Quran however distincts between Christians and Jews. The Quran calls Jewish people to stick to the teachings they have in the Torah, while also calling for Christians to stick to their Gospel (Quran 5:43 - 5:47). God (Allah) in the Quran acknowledges that people were given different religious laws (books, teachings etc..) yet the essence of the message in each of them is similar (Quran 22:67). The essential message among all prophets/messengers is that there's one God only, and nothing else to be worshiped or compared to Him. But here's where the conflict starts when it comes to Christianity and their view of Jesus. See, Jews believe in one God which makes their message in line with what all the prophets taught, yet Christianity (more accurately - Christians) deviated from this notion.
I am no scholar but I remember reading somewhere, perhaps in a Wikipedia article, that the prophet Mani's (founder of Manichaeism) mother was an Ebionite. I don't know what scholarly basis that might have but it sounds interesting and would witness to the continuing strength and survival of Ebionitism in that part of the world and at that time.
I think Mani knew a great deal more being that the stories of the Buddha, Zoroaster, and Jesus are very similar, I think he understood that this was a narrative of a broader spiritual enlightenment, that could take multiple forms. I never heard of Druze until a few years ago when I met a Syrian refugee in Hamburg of Druze heritage, but secularized. He told me that in Druze religion they discuss Jesus, John the Baptist, Socrates, Empedocles, Mohammed, Moses, and others whom they considered prophets, this variation of high regard for near East and Greek philosophy was striking as it seemed like a demand to preserve a classics education. Elevation of Jesus beyond philosopher IMO has done more harm than good.
Some years ago, when I was teaching English at a small Methodist College, I happened to mention in class that Jesus was a Jew. A young man with a Middle European name became quite upset at this idea. To keep the class on topic, I told him to come see me in my office later. He showed up in my office a day or two later, carrying his ratty old cloth bound notebook; I tried to explain to him that Jesus and all his original apostles were Jewish, born and raised in Palestine. He only became more upset at the idea. I happened to glance down at his notebook; there were swastikas drawn with a ballpoint pen all over the cover. I calmed his best I could and escorted him to the door.
Perhaps it would be worth an exploration of the spice caravans that carried goods from Aden ( from India and beyond ) along the Red Sea from Yemen to Damascus. This was an important route 2000+ years ago and there are a couple of Jewish cemeteries near today's Yemen. There was a story in the papers in the 1970s that at one point the digs for the Jewish cemetery was discontinued abruptly, cancelled by the Saudi government. Any more news on this ?
Question. Bart Ehrman said that the Ebionites believed that Jesus sacrificed himself for the sins of mankind. That thought was taught by Paul and they saw him as a false apostle. This means that Barts statement was inaccurate?
As Muslims we believe there was a minor religion in Hijaz known as Hanifi, who believed in the Jewish prophets and Jesus as a human prophet. Muhammad pbuh and some of his relatives belonged to this religion. What he preached at 40 was based on this foundation, and what we now know as Islam is only a perfection of the Hanifi doctrine.
Hanif is strict monotheism worshiping God alone no kids no partners no images no idols no creation or created beings Islam says that since first man Adam Islam existed but mankind got corrupted and worshipped nature man etc
Your videos are amazing. I appreciate your channel a lot man! Keep it up! (Also, can we please get a video on Zen? Christian author and monk Thomas Merton wrote very interesting books on Zen from a Christian perspective, it sparked my interested given the fact that it has become quite popular in the West)
@@SonofSethoitae you're right, he's not, but he is very interested in religion as of late, so an interview kind of podcast between him and philip would be stellar
Hi Filip! Would you ever consider doing a video on the Sabbateans or the Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi and his descendants? It's quite a controversial topic and all that I can find are from extremely biased sources
There is an essential mistake in this, which is identifying James and Peter with the “Judaizers” as opponents of Paul. Acts 15 completely contradicts such an idea.
Yep. Peter and James agreed with Paul that Gentiles don't need to keep Jewish Law. This guy also pretends that James had higher authority than Paul which wasn't the case. In fact James was late to the party since he didn't believe in Jesus when he was alive.
Great episode. Very interesting topic, and intriguing possibilities around connections between Ebionites in the Arabian peninsula and future threads of religious thought. Not surprising given that there were Jewish communities in Arabia before the rise of Islam, and there had been trade going on between the peninsula and the Levant along different routes.
It's hard to know if those Jews were from the original tribes or Arab converts. If you look at their pictures on line they look like converts with a few Jewish faces . That was probaly what happened.
@@winstonshipman8734 Did people of the Jewish faith in the Middle East look much different from their Arab neighbors, native Egyptians, other non-Hellenistic peoples of the Middle East back in the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries? So not talking Ashkenazi Jews, but those who lived in across the Middle East prior to the rise of that category of Sephardic Jews (narrowly are defined as members of Iberian Jewish communities that got expelled in the 15th century, and migrated across the Mediterranean).
This is pure speculation my Christian brothers , but the story the non-believing Jews told about Jesus was that he was the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier . I do not say this as an insult because "endless Christians " might be very happy to have him half European instead of fully Jewish . Perhaps this story is why Constantine was so quick to accept him as Messiah. This would also explain his European appearance in the famous paintings.
@@winstonshipman8734 There is not much in the way of physical description of Jesus (or Yeshua, his Jewish name). As for representations in famous paintings, believe those were done by Europeans long after his death, like centuries. Not sure that those works were very representative of what everyone who belonged to the various Jewish communities in the Middle East looked like. The question then is, what art is there of clearly Jewish people in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia from the first, second, third, fourth centuries, etc.? Is there the equivalent of painted portraits of Fayum found on coffins? As for the Jesus dad story, that seems to be something that Origen referred to, when noting the criticisms of Celsus, in the second century AD. Celsus was a Greek philosopher who wrote attacks on Christianity. Origen was from a Hellenized Alexandrian family, a city that was noted for early Jewish pogroms, born at the end of the second century. The Panthera legionary story may have come from Jewish sects angered at the claims of the various Christian sects, but those broadcasting it over a hundred and fifty years later were Greeks, or quite Hellenized persons, who were rhetoricians putting forth arguments.
the Isrealites were from the Levent and they look just like modern Syrians and Palestinians and not much diffrent from the Arabs of the peninsula " just little bite lighter " @@winstonshipman8734
A beautiful, beautiful video, Filip! Yes, it is a terrible pity that not much of the early Jewish Christians survives - we don't have a library of recently discovered literature, like we do with the Gnostics. And of course, you have to distinguish these early Jewish Christians, who were truly Jewish, from the modern "Jews for Jesus" movement - folks who are evangelical Christian wolves in Jewish sheep's clothing.
Hey LTR, can you explain how Jesus became such a big deal? He only preached for 3 years and Roman records of him are scant. How did his ideas go onto to have such an impact on the Jewish groups?
If Josephus is to be believed (and James the Just is the apostle James) then it wasn't Jesus who had an impact on the Jewish groups but James. Josephus descibes James as being the most Judaically pure and righteous Jewish leader in the Jerusalem of his time, and widely acclaimed as such DESPITE claiming his brother was the Messiah. According to Josephus it was James' death that had a direct political impact on the Jewish world, not Jesus'. James lived on until right near the start of the First Romano-Jewish War, well over thirty years after Jesus' crucifixion and nearly twenty years after Paul disappeared off the records (probably executed). That's a long time to cement his brother's legacy in the Jewish community.
Every prophet is given by God some miracles and unusual powers to bring The change in society and revolution right on time. So any prophet who would come even for a year he will leave behind a powerful revolution because he is aided by God and angels. And certain unusual events will happen that would shake up society. Prophet Jesus (pbuh) were given the most unusual miracles that were not given to any other prophet. His birth was miraculous, He could raise the dead by the will of God. He is the only prophet who is still alive and will come back second time on earth. I think God gave Jesus (pbuh) the most unusual kind of miracles that no other prophet has been given.
Loved this. Thanks for keeping me company and educating me while i do the dishes :)
The most spiritual of activities!
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I would love to talk to you about early Christianity. The first sects developed after the death of Jesus were the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. I think there are a lot of bridges we can create by going back in the time to the 2nd Temple Era.
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Jesus wasn't Jewish lol
Jesus is a Jew a big difference
Every video on this channel is pure gold for anyone interested in the history of religion. It feels good to still be able to find such valuable content on RUclips. Thank you a lot for the effort you put into this channel. It is highly appreciated!
Filip's videos are always a delight to watch because he takes an in depth look into delicate religious subjects with a serious dedication to explain the topic in the least biased manner possible.
There is also the fact that the comments almost always contain some absolute acid trips of confusion and madness, which is nice and the cherry on the cake for me.
Looking forward to this one
True love = the love of God!
*God himself went to the cross for you out of love for you as a human being*
Philippians 2:5-8
@@tomolo2619 Which makes no sense whatsoever.
All religions presented themselves as Llies when they denied Jesus his sacrifice!
God is holy and therefore inevitably always righteous. So God can never be merciful, gracious, because grace is not justice and therefore is wrong! A holy God can only be holy if he Never does wrong !! So Fact is without Jesus his SACRIFICE out of love for us we would all be lost! Only YHWH is not lying when he says he is HOLY and merciful! Who is YHWH equal? Exactly no one!!
JESUS gave himself as a sin offering !! A pure life for a life !! Because we have to be holy = without guilt otherwise God will judge us fair and just !! Jesus is YHWH and thus the Creator of everything and thus has the weight to wash the whole creation clean with these pure lives (Blood) !! God bless you
@@tomolo2619 i too go through religious psychosis after an adderall binge
Oh look. It’s that acid trip of madness and confusion. Thanks, Tom! So helpful.
Great video however one caveat, while Ebonites are described as vegetarians that is a bit anachronistic and their diet today wouldn't be seen as vegetarian as they didn't consider fish or locust to be animals so their diet was limited to avoiding mammals and birds.
Rod Preece, Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought p.124-6;
Well you answered what I asked above.
The obedient must be slaves
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There are NO good guys now
So they were pescatarians
@@AmonsRealm to us yes, but not to them vegetarian, pescatarian are modern concepts, they would be described, by themselves and their contemporaries as those who do not eat flesh
Makes sense. Would have probably been hard to get fisherman to follow you if you were against eating fish
Makes sense given the framework they came out of. Both, according to kosher dietary laws, are considered parve (neutral, neither meat nor dairy).
I like that this presenter appears to have no "axe to grind," no "dog in the fight." This is merely history, as nearly as history can be determined. Subscribing today.
Yes, finally, the Ebionites. The earliest form of Christianity according to many scholars. Definitely interesting for people interested in the historical Jesus
Oh you're interested in Jesus are you? Who the fuck says you can discuss my father, my father in public? I'm going to ensure you pay for this. Fully
No evidence of Jesus existing but go off I guess 🤷🏻♂️
@abu butter not really
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_"No evidence of Jesus existing..."_
Correct.
It's funny how everyone just glosses over that fact.
@@beardedman1692 the scholarly consensus is that a historical Jesus existed, but it it much more ambiguous what he did or preached
I’d like to see a video on the Nestorian church. They were the most significant branch of Christianity out of the Roman sphere of influence and had a great deal of influence on Islam. They still exist today in India and Iraq, but at one point were spread as far as from Saudi Arabia to China and Mongolia.
nestorians essentially created islam
@@goldsaint7 please Islam was a copy and paste of Christianity with heretical views nothing that the Quran says has any merit. A book that comes hundreds of years later after Jesus is supposed to be the truth? The book is all over the place and makes no sense just a bunch of rambling ls from a heat stroke old man
Let's talk religion.
If you do a search, you will find the human is a virus, a plague on this planet.
The naked ape enjoys status so much, he dreams of a deity being interested in him.
The State & The Church are likewise authoritarian cults of wealth creation & preservation.
The GOP uses Jesus-lingo as a uniform, their extreme lying, a demonstration of loyalty.
Thanks to them, we have 500 years of looting & torture called the inquisitions.
In the XII century significant events take place, as described in the Gospels: the coming of Jesus Christ, his life and crucifixion, although the existing text of the Gospels was edited and most likely dates to the XIV-XV cc. In the mid XII century, in the year 1152, Jesus Christ is born. In secular Byzantine history he is known as Emperor Andronicus and St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called in Russian history he was portrayed as the Great Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky. To be more specific, Andrey Bogolyubsky is a chronicler counterpart of Andronicus-Christ during his stay in Vladimir-Suzdal Rus’ of the XII century, where he spent most of his life. In fact, the Star of Bethlehem blazed in the middle of the XII century. This gives us an absolute astronomical dating of Christ’s Life. [ЦРС], ch.1. ‘Star of Bethlehem’ - is an explosion of a supernova, which at present is incorrectly dated to the middle of the XI century. The present-day Crab Nebula in the Taurus Constellation is the remnant of this explosion. Enigmatic timber scarcity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages as first recognized by dender-pioneer Ernest Hollstein (1918-1988) "No sites exist anywhere with uninterrupted timber specimen from about 1000 CE backwards to Imperial Antiquity(1st-3rd c.). which is why the dendro-chronologies for Ancient Rome and, thereby the entire first millennium are in disarray. Since the very existence of the chronology periods without wood samples was never doubted by the researchers, nobody started to question our textbook chronology. Instead, out of stratigraphic context, scholars searched for wood samples in wells or moors to fill the irritating gaps. In addition, identical reign sequences were used twice in a row to gamer more years. Therefor, "all dendrochronological datings done on West Roman time wood is wrong by some unknown number of years"(")
Tawhid word is not present in quran., islam dod not correct anything., it polluted the pure relixion of yisrael and added pagan elements like kissing stones and running around cubes…
This is my favorite historical period to look at. The transition from Judaism to Christianity really trips me up.
Is amazing. I call Jesus the liberator becasue he liberated people from the rituals and traditions, and taught what really matters to God. For example, to love God, have mercy on the rest of the world and live and help them.
There was no transition from Judaism to Christianity. The followers of Christ, the Church were already divorced from Judaism. The Apostles were kicked out from Synagogues and persecuted by mainstream Judaism.
Jesus never intended a second religion.
@@joseportillo61 wht do u mean by liberate?
Are u saying gods law was cursed..
Yes jesus taught pple spirituality but he didnt trhrow the law out of window.. like Christians do nowadays..
Drowning in immorality, fornication and sin is an direct consequence of abandonment of law which tells pple to do good and avoid evil..
Without law u can love God all u want but still be a sinfull person as u will have to idea how to live and wht to do.. about whts allowed and not..
Thts where islam comes its a balance of law and spirituality
It also triped the rest of us up, we all fall down . 😏
Loved it. I'm amazed at the conciseness and depth. Can't wait for more early Christianity episodes.
Just want to say that I appreciate the time you take to teach us the history that happened alongside the "making" of all the different religions you've talk about. I'm not a religious person but I do like hearing the histories of these people's that are well-known now in our time, but long forgotten that they've actually existed once-in-a-lifetime.
I don't know for me your videos gives me a certain of understanding to why there is even a religion to begin with.
So for me I've founded out that religion is a oath that a human take to live among peace and to also not let their savagery instinct that had been passed by their primal ancestors to become the value of life itself. Yes evil still exists but its a better feeling knowing that the good is also out there among us.
Nice comment and thoughts.
Religion is a way of life and believes about God, after-life, death, purnishment and heaven.
To put simply. What is the purpose of man's existence on earth??
According to Islam, God (Allah) created man so that man can Worship him alone, glorify him and perform good acts that will ultimately lead man to his salvation and eternal life in heaven. Failure to submit to God's authority and supremacy as well as not performing good deeds will lead man to God's displeasure and eternal purnishment.
The most important element of the religion is believe in One God who created everything else. He alone deserves respect, worship, awe and glorification. This is called Tawheed (monotheism). Everything else besides him are false deities and sacrilege to the concept of monotheism.
The most important figures of this conception of Tawaheed are Noah, Abraham, Moses and Muhammad.
All were monotheistic preachers whom God sent to guide men and teach them this reality. They called for abandonment of other deities and beings that people held as devine or worthy of worship.
Hence, the meaning of Lailaha illalah ( There is no god worthy of worship except God alone).
Understanding religion or not, it's in people interest.
I disagree with the thinking that people need to form any kind of group or organization to make them feel there is a distinction between good and evil.
It's God's existence that gives you confirmation about that kind of thinking, no matter when, where, or how many people like you out there.
It's people who stray away from the only rightful definition of good and God. Hence, religions, not religion.
Study long enough, read enough, then you will have the urge to seek out the truth.
Seek truth, and you will find it.
It is even more fascinating to know that I have come to believe everything that Ebionates believe without even knowing that such a group ever existed until now. 😮
Its the classical blind following the blind
So you are basically a Muslim.
*ACTUALLY THE TRUE FOLLOWRS OF YESHUAH SAW HIM AS PROPHET NOT A DIVINE GOD, AND BASED IN TORAH TORAH MORAL MITZVAH IS FOR EVERYONE EVEN FOR GOYM NO JEWISH, GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IS EUROPEAN MADE EVEN NAZARINES DIDNT ANTHING TO DO WITH IT.
IM A FORMER CHRISTIAN FOR OVER 35 YEARS AND CHRISTIAN MINISTER, BUT THE ANCESTOS WHO END THE LIFE OF THE JESUS WAS TERMINATED BY THE ANCESTORS OF CHRISTIANITYTHE EUROPEAN, AN THE BEST PROOF IS GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, ONE MORE TIME GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, NOT HEBEW TESTAMENT, THE HEBREW LANGUAGE WAS BOTH THE NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE OF FIRST CENTURY ISRAEL NOT GREEK, THE GREEK LANGUAGE WAS HATED IN THAT TIME, AND THE COMMON LANGUAGE NOT RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE WAS ARAMAIC, JEUS/YESHUAH I NIT THE THE TRUE PROPHET YESHUAH, BUT GECORROMAN GOD JESUS,HA SATAN INVENTION, EVIL INCARNATED.*
ACTUALLY I KNOW ABOUT THEM SINCE THE 80S..
@@RebbeYehoshuahLamberti That makes sense, since The Ebionites started as a new wave group in 1979.
I love Jesus as my prophet. May Allah guide us all to the right path
Allahu akbar
@@ren.8137indeed God is the greatest Alhumdullilah
Ur religion is false and Jesus is more then just prophet
Why you say you love him as your prophet but don’t follow his message and instead are following Mohamed?
@@lisetriskel As a Muslim, I hold immense respect and love for Jesus as a prophet, but I follow Prophet Muhammad because of the authenticity and completeness of his message. The New Testament, which contains Jesus’ teachings, was not written directly by him but by various authors who compiled the texts from oral traditions and second-hand accounts. These texts are often introduced with phrases like “according to Matthew” or “according to John,” and the full identities of these authors remain unknown. Over time, the Bible has undergone significant changes, with more than 30,000 modifications and many verses being added or removed, raising questions about its consistency and authenticity.
In contrast, we believe that Jesus came with a divine message centered on the oneness of God, worshipping with great humility, similar to how Muslims pray today. However, we believe that Jesus’ original teachings, known as the Injil, were corrupted over time by human additions, such as the concept of the Trinity and the belief that God died for humanity’s sins. Prophet Muhammad, on the other hand, brought the final and complete message from God, which aligns with the core teachings of all previous prophets, including Jesus, Abraham, and Adam. This message emphasizes the worship of one God (Allah) and living a life of righteousness.
Furthermore, the Quran, which we believe to be the final scripture, has been preserved in its original form without any alterations, as Allah has promised to protect its authenticity. While we deeply respect Jesus and his teachings, we believe that the Quran represents the final, unaltered message from God, building upon the teachings of all prophets. Our faith is rooted in the belief in one God and the guidance provided through the Quran and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad.
Following Prophet Muhammad does not mean disregarding Jesus’ teachings; rather, it means embracing a continuation and completion of the message that began with earlier prophets. Jesus is revered in Islam, and his message of monotheism and devotion to God is integral to our faith. The teachings of Muhammad provide a comprehensive guide for living a righteous life and worshipping God, preserving the essence of the messages brought by all previous prophets, including Jesus.
Another possibility for the the origins of the word “Ebion” could be from the arabic word “ابى" - “Aba” - To refuse.
أبيون: “Abiune” : Those that refuse
Possible do you think ????
Arabic and Hebrew are distantly related, so a lot of the root words sound similar. Case in point, 'ebyon' comes from an earlier root 'abah,' you can probably see the connection. Considering the location it probably comes from Hebrew.
interesting! Quite possible, I think. Ebionites- those who refuse the official Jewish religion.
@@jared_bowden It probably comes from Hebrew but I would definitely say that Hebrew and Classical Arabic are closely related not distantly. They're both West Semitic languages, that's very very close phylogenetically
good theory , those that refuse the divinity of Jesus
“ Those whom refuse Trinity”
Cavolo, veramente curioso di saperne di più prossimamente! 😮
5:33 I would disagree here given that Luke in Acts does record that while Peter and James were in the pro-circumsition camp initially, Peter later moved to the Paul's camp on that issue and while people would say "Acts isn't reliable" no, Luke has proven in his previous gospel to be as reliable as just about any ancient historian.
But even then, Paul also records in Galatians of Peter coming towards his camp, tho still being pressured by the Judaisers to often outwardly pretend to be on their side, which Paul was calling out.
Kinda interesting that they held James to such high regard given he was the first of the Apostles to die, meaning that he probably held to the position of the Judaizers until his relatively early death while most of the others would have flipped to the position of Paul and Peter.
These are two different James's (in our English translations, really Iakovos or Jacob). The James whose memory was held in high esteem by the Ebionite sect (although he was not one of the Judaizers that Paul had an ongoing dispute with) was James the Just, the brother of the Lord (martyred AD 62), not James the brother of John who died earlier.
Actually Paul was alone in the situation of Galatians 2. Even Barnabas turn off from him.
Why should you believe what Paul writes as facts in the first place? Christians don’t seem to think critically enough
Ebionites believes that Jesus wasn't born from a virgin (as in Jesus being biological son of Joseph) and crucifixion happened to Jesus, so it's also clashes with common Muslims' beliefs about Jesus (as Wine being partaked in rites is still parts of Kosher diet, but swine and those akin to crabs tend to be forbidden in Kosher dietary law of Ebionites, similar to Rabbinical Judaism), not to mention that the common Muslim beliefs of Jesus escaping Crucifixion presents in the Christian Gnostic Basilidean gospels & texts and certain Apocryphal Sethian texts instead of neither Ebionites, Nazarenes, etc
But Ebionites also have certain similar beliefs with the Sufi Islam's Cosmology of Primordial Man created before Adam as a "Great Angel" (Logos or Christ), which is separate from human Prophet/teacher Jesus, which presents in Mystical Islam as "Nur Muhammad", similar to Valentinian concept of Aeon Anthropos (paired with Aeon Ecclesia, or Aeons Nous & Aletheia) or Sethian concept of Barbelo (as Androgynous creation with both masculine and feminine contradiction paired as a whole of creation template by Sethians), so there was even original mixing points between Gnostic tendencies and Jewish Christian tendencies even in the first century
Remember, aside from Ebionites, a Jewish Christian with Gnostic-like beliefs akin to Cerinthus and Menander and even Simonians existed, each not just having James as their sources of Apostleship lineage (Or Sanad of Sahaba-Tabi'in) in Islamic terms), with Cerinthus dating even earlier than Ebionites and also have "weird" beliefs while also deeming Mosaic Law as necessary despite rejecting YHWH/Elohim as True God and more of a benevolent but deficient world-shaping Angel, Gnostic Justin's Book of Baruch also exists too as parts of the obscurity origin between "Gnostic" and "jewish-Christian" lineages and the "Church Fathers" also recorded them too, which makes things even more confusing to track down the origin, the original Jesus teachings might have combination between 'Gnostic'-like, 'Jewish'-like, 'Orthodox apostolic'-like, etc
Well this was a comment I never thought I needed but am glad I stopped to read. Good show, ol’ man.
Islam is not the way into heaven.
May I ask how do you know so much about this subject?
@@ngmmngw9027 Not for yourself, at least currently.
@@FarhatKCh There are these objects referred to as.........books......
LOVED this one, early and proto Xty is truly fascinating, hope you do some more on this, Thank You!
Very well constructed. Thanks for the hard work.
1- We Muslims believe that Jesus, peace be upon him, is one of the greatest prophets of God, may blessings and peace be upon them all, and we believe that he is the Messiah
And he will return at the end of time, and that will be a major sign of the Hour, as it is his mission to fight the Antichrist and to demonstrate the sincerity of the religion of Islam.
2- We also believe that he was born without a father, as his mother, Mary, peace be upon her, was a virgin (contrary to the belief of the Ebionites).
And he was ordering the Children of Israel to follow the Torah and to fear God, and also to make lawful for them some of what was forbidden to them in the Torah as a punishment for their disobedience, for example the fat of clean animals and some other things
(The one who allows and the one who forbids here is God Almighty, an Islamic example of that. The direction of Muslims’ prayer was Jerusalem, then God made it towards Mecca)
3- The thing that distinguishes Islam in believing in the Gospel is that it is the Book of God that He revealed to His servant Jesus, peace be upon him. As for the many Gospels that exist today, whether they are the known four or others, they contain part of the truth and cannot be fully trusted because their true authors are not known. The names were attributed later.
@Aurora Summer 1-Of course, my brother, faith, as you know, increases and decreases, as it is not stable, and this is the natural thing that is innate in the son of Adam
Perhaps one of the reasons for losing faith are sins, failure to maintain prayer on time, bad company that wastes time, and staying away from the faith environment with which you are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.
There is no human being who is free of sins or whose faith does not diminish. The struggle must be throughout life, and you are keen that your determination is not extinguished.
2- One of the best things to help you regain your faith and make it stronger than before is to contemplate the Noble Qur’an calmly, in which there is healing and mercy for the believers.
You should also feel the greatness of God Almighty and His names and attributes
Like He is the Holy, the Merciful, the Wise, and the Lord of all creation
And you should feel that he is always watching you and always with you wherever you are. Raise your hands to the sky and prostrate and pray and weep before him and ask him to be firm on his religion.
And be sure to choose good companionship that helps you in doing good deeds so that you will receive reward from God Almighty
3- These were some tips from your brother, who also needs the mercy and stability of God. We all face problems in life, and the only one who will make us overcome difficulties is God Almighty. ❤️
@Aurora Summer
What's the reason if you don't mind me asking? I'm muslim bye the way .
@@dani4157 Do you want to discuss religion with me and clarify the facts with their evidence? I accept the discussion with open arms and let us make the satisfaction of God Almighty upon us our goal. What do you say?
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Ha.
Bible reliable.
I pissed myself laughing.
The four gospels were written in the same century as Christ's birth, life and crucifixion while the Quran is a work from centuries later. It's pretty obvious that the gospels are the more reliable source.
We muslims believe Jesus peace be upon him was a human a prophet messiah son of Mary who was born without father a sign and miracle for romans and jews
@@TheRoundtable_RTG both it is in Quran so our believe and faith is from God's book we dont believe or say things by our own selves but whatever is written in Quran and what our Prophet taught us
And our Prophet also told us that Jesus will come 2nd time from heavens with 2 angels in modern day Syria where he will chase antichrist and kill him on the gates of Jerusalem and he will establish the global caliphate from Jerusalem that what you christans calls it the kingdom of heaven from Jerusalem i think
@@TheRoundtable_RTG Wether we search on our own, everything we have is taught by others.
@@TheRoundtable_RTG i dont think so
Because the prophices are being fulfilled and we are literally living in the times of antichrist in the times of great deceptions
@@TheRoundtable_RTG the prophecy on the khorasan region
@@TheRoundtable_RTG just keep assuming.
Btw there's a thing called google if you don't know
The belief in the Future Messiah is arguably older than Judaism itself, also existing in Zoroastrianism, and other religious traditions.
In 2nd Temple Judaism, there were different messianic ideas floating around:
Basically one that of a Human Messiah, a Davidic King, and there's even the belief in two more messiahs: a Priest and a Prophet.
And other of a Heavenly Messiah, the "Son of Man", the Son of God, the Son of the Most High, a Spiritual being who would sit on the throne of God and set in the Last Judgement.
Most interesting thing about Christianity is that it conflates all of these notions: Jesus is the Davidic King Messiah, Priest, Prophet, the Son of Man, the Son of God.
In Islam there are two messiahs: Jesus's second coming and the Mehdi, the latter is supposed to be a just political leader not a prophet. They and the anti-christ are supposed to appear around the same time.
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@@aladinsura121 Not true. Imam Mahdi is not a Messiah he is just a leader amongst muslims. Only Jesus pbuh is the Messiah
Was Jesus ever a priest?
Zoroaster or Zarathrushstra, according to the more recent scholarly consensus, lived in the 6th century BC, so not older than Judaism.
Being vegetarian, while seemingly a minor dietary quirk, actually makes a lot of sense within their framework. It's a pretty common belief that when moshiach comes that we will be vegetarians (and only the mincha offerings in the beis hamikdash). Rav Kook actually took it further promoting vegetarianism today to hasten the coming of the messiah.
While the oral torah was still being compiled somewhat contemporaneously, the belief in vegetarianism is mentioned in both talmud babli as well as the yerushalmi.
This is a world of mouths, where everything eats and is eaten, that even time itself will have you between its teeth and grind you down to the dust that you are.
The body requires life in order to live, likewise you cut the sacrifice of sustainance to pieces with the serrations of your mouth.
Don't you understand that creation and destruction are one? That there can be no life without murder, and there can be no murder without life?
You hurl the corpses of the dead into your mouths and give thanks for their sacrifice, just as one day you will become food to other living beings just the same.
And do not think yourselves better for eating leafs and drinking the sap, and do not think others worse for eating meat and drinking the blood.
You yourself will deny your sacrifice to those who depend on it, thinking yourself wise and proper while you are arrogant in your understanding. Yet no one can destroy the life that is the spirit, who amongst man has the power to destroy that which is indestructible?
You hypocrites, whoever has eaten the cow has also eaten the grass the cow is made of, and whoever has eaten the grass has also eaten the cow the grass is made of.
When you die will you deny the world the food of your body also?
Do you not understand that the life of the body cannot be destroyed nor wasted? That life itself cannot be killed but is merely passed on from one being to another?
Cease your arrogance and frivolous pity, for these belong to the hypocrites and not to the righteous.
@@larocdokarnap3227 i make no comments on any individuals diet. I only point out that their prqctice of vegetarianism would have been seen within their cultural background as a normative practice for Jews who believed the messiah had come. It is even today a common belief among orthodox Jews that when the messiah comes we (Jews) will be vegetarian (technically pescatarian as Jewish religious law does not consider fish meat).
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God has given to man from every seed bearing plant and tree to everything that lives and moves about, for them to eat as food. Sometimes God requires a sacrifice of your crops and herds, he does not prefer one or the other cause God requires both, and so should you. The prophet declared all foods clean, he says not to worry about what you will eat, because God will provide what you need if you are willing to accept it. So if there is grain nearby he will lead you to it, and if there is meat nearby it will come to you.
God does not offer bad gifts, you should never vow to yourself to not eat or kill anything at all, but be ready to accept it. It is exceptional luxury to eat or not eat according your desire or tradition. So if you are out in the field God offers you grain, if you are out in the wilderness God offers you meat, if you are out on the sea God offers you fish. The fish is not above the grain, nor is the meat above the fish, nor the grain above the meat, all of these are there to benefit you and you should despise none of them.
Let rituals be understood for what they are, and the law be understood for what it serves to accomplish.
@@larocdokarnap3227 again my comment was not about any individual dietary choice, nor indicative of my own. It was about the cultural background of second temple judaism as it relates to the subject matter of the video. Please save your personal views of vegetarianism for someone who cares.
I'd seen this video on my recommendations before but I decided to go find it because I was wondering about the possibility of similar groups surviving into the 7th century and influencing Islam so I'm glad you included that part at the end :)
The speaker omits the crucial fact that the Ebionites appeared after the fall of the Jerusalem temple. Also their beliefs coincide with what we find in Galatians. Paul was clearly disputing with these same people, showing that Christianity arose at this time.
Thank you for covering this topic Philip, as someone who is inspired by the Dharmic traditions, seeing Jesus personally more as a God-realized Yogī, - He is mentioned as such in the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa - the Ebionite perspective is somewhat closer to my personal perspective. I’ve also heard many Muslim scholars point to the Ebionites as the original followers of Jesus from the Quranic perspective
That vision isn't supported by the Bible. In the Bible you don't gain spiritual status by "illumination". The original followers of Jesus were the Netzarim (Acts 24)
What is the Bhavisya Purana? How does it mention Jesus?
@@CarlosMdz72 Jesus never mentioned the Trinity either but many Christians follow that teaching. I am not Christian and I don't understand how people can have so many interpretations of the scripture. Seems like much of Christianity evolved over time.
From Islamic point of view, not exactly. Quran admited the virgin birth of Jusus peace upon him, his case as Adam created for uniqueness purpose, his massage extended from Moses as the case of Mohammed massage. He came to change many concepts such as the ethnicity such as the sons of God also he came to correct what was changed in the beleive due to human writing and translation based on culture, language and personal inclinations. As he will make radical shift that will cause backlash in the faith, affecting thought and emotion, and to absorbing that reactions he equipped with powerful miracles and the most powerful one is his birth.
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Please watch from 1hr 27mins the speaker is covering the Bhavisya Purana and Jesus Christ
I appreciate all you do!! Thank you
Theresa
The Ebionites may have been closest to original Christianity
Yes.
Like believing that Jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of sin?
Lol
Nope. I don't see any of the pillars of the faith for them not just Paul. Nor any of the disciples of the Apostles, for them.
Ebionites is one of the most interesting groups of "christians" ever existed! I would love to know more about their practices! Thank you for this excellent analysis.
Ebionites where not christians they where EBIONITES...If anything the Christians are the Ebionites of today...what do you think?
As nazarene we are confused with ebionites which are said to be heretical for saying that jesus wasn't god's manifestation neither he's son born of a virgin, which nazarenes do not believe. The nazarenes or nazorene say to be the first christians. Paul and james did not disagree, it is about how you interpret their verses and about the fact that there are still nazarenes remaining and who admit that the bible suffered from miss traductions who change the meanings of these verse who look disagreeing and also the Jewish custom and culture of the time referred about in some of these verses not understable from pagan perspective 2000years later.
Great study! You missed the part where the Roman Church persecuted them until they were utterly destroyed
As Gabriele Boccaccini has pointed out, there are so many similarities between the Essenes (who referred to themselves as Ebionim "the poor") and the Jewish Christian Ebionites that the latter may have been a subset of the (Jewish) Essenes who also venerated Jesus.
Jesus was a men and the messenger of God Peace be upon him
There sure is much debate on who exactly Jesus was. At this point I don't think there's any way to find out so many people throughout history interpreted his life differently. Even all Christians don't agree on what he really was. This is why I couldn't never be religious there are countless different views on everything.
Islam is not the way. Mat 19 17.
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@brenosantana1458 as muslims we have no problem with that verse.
@@LisaAnn777the 1st criteria to find God is to question yourself who God is.
God is most powerful, so God can't be weak. God is eternal and Immortal, so God can't be killed.
God can't be ignorant and stupid. God can't be square circle.
Can God create a stone that he can't lift? Or can't destroy? No. The stone that can't be lift or destroyed means the stone has attributes of God, and it means can God create God? No.
Thank you for another great video, Filip! I have always called them the EH-bionites. Before there were the gentile Christians who followed Paul, there were the Jewish Christians who followed Jesus. Paul basically hijacked the emerging Christian religion. This will indeed be a fertile field of study for future videos.
Paul didn't hijack it, he converted to Christianity
Paul stopped killing when converted to Christianity
Mhmd started killing when starting islam
There's your difference
@@feduntu This is very probably the time of the great falling away prophesied of in the Bible. Heresy is rising to a fever pitch. Look to Islam for the coming Antichrist.
@@feduntu No, you are mistaken about this, as are the vast majority of Christian believers. And surprisingly enough, the clues are right in your Bible, in the Book of Acts, and Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. Yeah, Paul supposedly had his conversion on the road to Damascus, a story that Paul's wingman and PR agent Luke tells no less than three times in the Book of Acts - yet there are significant discrepancies in the details between all three accounts that would raise eyebrows in a court of law. Paul converted the fledgling Jesus movement to his own way of thinking at least as much as he himself was converted - that much is clear. Another thing that is clear from the Book of Acts is that Paul had major disagreements with James the Just, who both Paul and Luke call the Brother of the Lord (Jesus) . The original Jesus movement, and Jesus' original followers, were thoroughly Jewish and Torah observant, and we can safely assume that Jesus was also, which is backed up in the Gospel of Matthew. In chapter 15 of the Book of Acts, at the Jerusalem Council, Paul succeeds in getting James to agree to a drastically shortened list of Jewish observances. In chapter 21 of the Book of Acts, James orders Paul to go through a week long ritual of penance and purification to prove his allegiance to the Jerusalem Church and the Law, because James has heard by that point that Paul has been preaching to the Jews of the diaspora to forsake the Law of Moses, and the customs, and urging them not to circumcise their male children. At the end of this period of penance and purification, Paul goes down to the Jerusalem Temple to make a final offering, and he is confronted by an angry mob due to rumors that he has admitted gentiles into the temple to defile it, and also that he has been preaching against the Law. This bad blood between Paul and the Jews is so serious that there are even plots to murder him that are so serious that Paul finally reveals his Roman citizenship and is escorted by armed guard to the Roman port city of Caesarea to save his life. Read this in chapters 21 to 23 of the Book of Acts. You can also read about Paul's haughty, defiant attitude towards the Jerusalem Church leadership, and his confrontation of Peter, another leader or pillar of the Jerusalem Church in Antioch, calling him a hypocrite to his face. You can also infer from Paul's haughty, defiant attitude that he does not submit to their authority. The original schism between the gentile followers of Paul and the Jewish Jerusalem Church of Jesus' original Jewish followers came along so early in the history of Christianity that it totally falls under the radar of most Christians - but it happened, and written evidence of it is there, even in your Bibles. And even Luke in the Book of Acts, who is otherwise eager to portray Paul in the best light possible, cannot cover up these serious schisms and disagreements between Paul and the original Jesus movement; to his credit, these conflicts were so large and significant that Luke had to admit them, and could not gloss over them or sweep them under the rug.
@@naiman4535 what part is the mistake abdool?
Did mhmd not commit murder after converting to Islam?
Yet Paul did the opposite when converted to Christianity, that alone is good enough argument to debunk your 7th century Nestorian stone worshipping beliefs
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Strangely enough, over the course of 21 years of my life after studying most of that time, I ended up with beliefs just like the Ebionites. I do not have faith anymore but I still practice many of the ideas found in the Ebionites.
@@senu6046 No belief in the preexistence, deity, or resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. No belief in faith-based salvation. No embellishment from the texts added much later or the teachings of Paul. What we find in the original followers of the Nazarene is radically different than what we find in later additions from the so-called followers of Jesus of Nazareth. In essence, be a good person, do good works, repent of bad practices, and seek grace from the Divine.
@@DiscipleToki So you are basically a Muslim like me (who of course does not believe that Muhammad is the last messenger of god).
@@pillow7672 Not really, I am not a follower of any Scriptures but rather take the wisdom from them. I am far too skeptical to accept the things people say on faith because I know my limitations. I practice love and forgiveness as well as compassion to all people, whether Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist. I am not fit to judge anyone, that is up to the Divine who I dare not claim to be able to comprehend or understand. Love to you kin. 🥰
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Great video! It's pretty interesting how circular is the history of Christianity. This debate could easily be had during the Reform in the 1500 or between an atheist and a believer 5 minutes ago. Nothing really new.
Matthew 4:1 Jesus was tempted
James 1:13 God cannot be tempted
John 1:29 Jesus was seen
John 4:12 No man has ever seen God
Acts 2:22 Jesus was and is a man sent by god
Numbers 23:19 God is not human
Hebrews 5:89 Jesus had to grow and learn
Isaiah 40:28 God doesn't need to learn
Corinthians 15: 3-4 Jesus Died
Timothy 1:17 God cannot Die
Hebrew 5:7 Jesus needed salvation
Luke 1:37 God doesn't need Salvation
John 4:6 Jesus grow weary
Isaiah 40:28 God cannot grow weary
Mark 4:38 Jesus Slept
Psalm 121: 2-4 God Doesn't Sleep
John 5:19 Jesus is not all powerful
Isaiah 45: 5-7 God is All powerful
Mark 13:32 Jesus wasn't all knowing
Isaiah 46:9 God is all knowing
So, Christians please read Bible carefully. Do you really think Trinity is real?
I love how much more professionally produced and polished your content as got over time as the channel as grown but you stick to using your original opening still of you standing looking deep in thought infront of the religious symbols. I like that 👍🏻
Great production and smooth narration.
I am often surprised by how little one knows of early Christianity, the ebionites I heard of lately, they were derided by early church fathers like Eusebius as the poor ones and heretics though they claim continuity with James brother of Jesus.
The gradual realization is borne out that much of early Christianity seem different from current dogma.
The Bible says that there were heretics with the Antichrist spirit from the very beginning, and that they broke away from true Christianity. The orthodox forms of Christianity are true, because if they weren't, they would have vanished from history. Instead, they have become the largest identifiable faith on Earth. Meanwhile, Ebionites and all these other heresies disappeared very early.
@@sechrima9998 your presumption then is that the more "Orthodox" or large the following a group is the more "truthful" they are bound to be.
A large number of people may display preferences for pop songs than classical ones yet it does not imply the former is the most true form of music.
What is dominant/Orthodox can be a function of power and the interpretations of that power. Imperial Rome was the most powerful state at the time, once it adopted Pauline Christianity as the official state religion of Rome and empire it set about harmonizing Christianity as a common faith by persecuting all those who hold plural views of religion including their texts which were now branded heresies with consequences for those who bore them, the might and power of roman imperial reach meant it succeeded to a large extent.
Consequently what we now call the bible codified largely by church leaders aligned to Rome and roman values became the only sanctioned narrative of Christianity, thus all the rich diversity of Christianity such as those relating to James the just, brother and successor of Jesus who knew him better than all was left out and those apologetic to Rome brought in.
Even more poignant is the fact that Jesus a Jewish man who practiced the Jewish faith, and upheld Jewish law lived in an environment of political fervour with most Jews opposed to Rome and hankering after messianic tendencies for both a political figure a davidic descendant and a spiritual messiah possibly of levite heritage to free them from what they perceived as a pagan power constantly imposing demands upon them. Jesus like his brethrens were in opposition to Rome, Jews do not kill by crucifixion, and why would they celebrate the killing of their fellow country men when most of them shared the hopes of messianic redemption ?
As such Rome once it adopted Christianity would not countenance the idea of a Jewish upstart who challenged Rome, hence the Pauline strain of Christianity which allowed for accomodation with Rome and watered down Jewish law was accepted. Alas with money and power an entity such as Rome can decide what is truth, or best standard and what is not and this became received literature constantly reproduced over time.
The ebionites like many early christians before Rome were Jewish sect, they did not differ much with the Jewish faith save the claim of Jesus as prophet and messiah which they upheld, some may have folded back in to Judaism but some of the teachings of these early christians and immediate successors to Jesus wound it's way in to Islam so their teachings in some form is still extant.
@@Adad-ki5dh James may have known Jesus the man best, but he was neither the best disciple nor the leader of the disciples according to Jesus in the Gospels. Those distinctions belonged to John and Peter, both of whom were apostles to the Romans. If James attempted to use his familial ties to Christ to impose himself as the leader of the disciples after Christ’s ascension to Heaven, then he did so against the express wishes of the Lord as confirmed by the Holy Spirit.
If God had wanted to save the world by means taught by the Ebionites, then he would have preserved the Ebionites. Instead, he gave the historic victory to the orthodox traditions. The greatest disciples were sent to the Romans, to carry out the Great Commission of converting the pagan gentiles. That James lingered among the Jews and attempted to gain some spurious inherited authority even suggests that he was less obedient to Christ’s commands than the others.
If Islam indeed has roots in Ebionite traditions, then it only confirms that the Bible’s warnings of the Antichrist are true, and we should look to Islam for his coming.
@@sechrima9998 James did not linger among the Jews he is a Jew as was Jesus, it is preposterous to think that Jesus (yeshua) was an apostate to the Jewish faith.
Even Paul and Peter talked about the church in Jerusalem under James the brother of the lord, Paul even recognized their authority he referenced at one instance of carrying donations to the church in Jerusalem, not to mention the illustrious incident in which delegations from the Jerusalem church berated him for his revisionist teachings of Jesus Christ to the gentiles whom he admonished not to partake in Jewish laws.
The bible is a collection of narratives cherry picked from amongst many come to think of it how do these Jewish apostle nutured in Jewish law of works and faith come to celebrate partaking symbolically in drinking blood, eating flesh, trinitarian concepts and other things that would have stirred utter repulsion .
@@Adad-ki5dh Of course God can’t be an apostate. Jesus was the fulfilment of Jewish faith.
Jesus’ final command to his disciples was to preach to all the nations. If James stayed home, then he was neglecting his responsibilities. That’s not to say he wasn’t Christian, just that he was imperfect. He took authority upon himself that the Lord never assigned to him. Paul obviously went along with James to maintain unity (a matter of great importance to Paul), not necessarily because he agreed with James. There was no need to create a schism in the Church over those matters at that time.
The fact that you don’t understand the Eucharist tells me all I need to know about you. Perhaps your name is not written in the Book of Life, as you seem spiritually blind. You need to read John 6 carefully. I pray the Father will give you to the Son.
I have been fascinated by James the Just and the Torah observant followers of Jesus since trading of James as a 16 yr old schoolboy.
A quote from a book I once read goes something like “ what are we to make of the passing parade of Nazarites, Rechabites Zealots and Zadokites who inhabit the background if the Gospel story?”
There is much more to the story of the Ebyonim such as what the Pseudo Clemintines might tell us. Imagine how marvellous it would be if a cache is Ebyonite documents were to be discovered, ( sigh ). .. if only!
What did you receive in trade for a 16 year old schoolboy?
Steven it should have read since learning of James the Just as a 16 year old.
By the time i posted it spellcheck had changed it. Glad you picked it up though as it shows that someone is reading my posts ha!!
We already have sufficient documents to live on.
Just to inform you nazarenes not nazarites and if you want to learn more about us we can have a conversation.
Awesome! I cannot wait to see this video.
I am a Muslim and in my study to interpret words in my al-Quran and going extra-Quraic & Hadith, I tried to dig the Bibles for clues. And I must say I found a lot of it in one non-canonised gospel which is available in the net. It is called "The Gospel of the Holy Twelves" a. k a. " The Gospel of the Nazarenes". It is just that there are many of the Jesus narratives in there that suggest strong interconectivities with narratives in the al-Quran, especially I the construct of a scriptural "6 Day Creation" and Semitic reincarnation hypothesis / theory / doctrine. Salam/Shalom/Namaste
Jesus Christ has nothing to do with the child raping false prophet Muhammad or his vile filth and lies in the Qur’an. Jesus Christ accepted the worship of his disciples (Matthew 28:16-28:20) before his ascension into heaven and he proclaimed himself to be the Son that Daniel the prophet spoke that was seated at the right hand of the Father (Daniel 7:13-14 & Matthew 26:57-75), none of which has anything to do with the false god allah. However, he did note the likes of the false prophet Muhammad were inevitable in Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's. clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
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could you make a video of the following topic: "different versions of Jesus life from age 5 to 30"?
There are many teories, and it would be intersting to find out how you investigate them to find out which seems to have any chances to be true. Some of them say that Jesus traveled to places as far east as India an Kashmir and was influence by buddist texts and teachings, others say hindu vedic texts, etc. There are also countless theories what happen to Jesus after deth - from resurection to escape and preaching to people from very distant land like England, Japan, and America... they all seem a bite fantastic but it's intersting that they all have their own followers today and some become even very popular like Mormonizm. Could you explore this topic more? It would be appreciated.
What do you think of the possibility alleged by some historians that the Ebionites were similar to today's Messianic Jews, in that instead of being Jesus-following Jews continuing the Jacobian tradition they were actually Christians who reverted back into Judaism then adopted James as their progenitor?
That is of course entirely possible, but we just don't have any documentation either way of how they came into existence.
@@michaels4255 It's the original accusation made by Irenaeus against Ebionites. He specifically called them "Judaizers", which in his understanding were Christians who went back to their Judaistic roots. While Justin Martyr talked about Jewish Christians who kept the Law, he never called them Ebionites. So the very first documentation of Ebionites we have from their contemporaries started with the accusation that they were Christians who went back into the Law, instead of Law-abiding Jewish Christians. This is why some historians have argued to separate Justin's account from Irenaeus'.
I think .Ebionites were genuine followers of Jesus' teaching.
When I point out to a devout Christian that early Christianity was extremely diverse, I get the same reply. That god made sure that the “true” Christianity would win out; hence what we call Orthodoxy is what god wanted. Got rid of all those “heretics” such as the Ebionites, Gnostics, Marcions, etc.
It’s interesting Paul’s perspective won out for Gentiles, when the half brother who actually knew personally our Messiah, James was not considered to know better the obedience God desires for all men.
Enjoyed the video, please do more like this.
Great video, I enjoyed it. Apparently, these folks (or some similar group) were last heard of sometime in the 12th century. I wonder if they were persecuted to extinction or died out through failure to proselytize. Also interesting is that, as nominal vegetarians, one of the raging controversies of early Christianity, namely the consumption of meat sacrificed to pagan gods, would have been utterly outside their belief system.
A question I like to pose to all who want to look into these splits is this. Why do Christians adhere more to a Pauline Christian theology, when Paul never met Yeshua?
On the other hand, James the brother of Yeshua, was left in charge, and seems to be all but forgotten within the religion.
Who's more credible? The eye witness, or the persecutor.
Yes one can change, like from Saul to Paul, but the question really is, why does James differ from Paul's teachings. I say look in to the past. I would start at 70 A.D.
It's often hard to break with tradition.
James never believed in Christ nor followed him when Jesus was alive.
@@gianlucarossi5672 James and his community likely did "believe in" the Yashua (Jesus) the Christ (anointed), just differently from Paul/Saul and others.
Awesome comment.
It s because they want to believe the pauline christianity, the mythology that paul created.
And they won't search into the past because they don t want to know the truth. That is that yeshoua the Man that existed, is not the Christ of faith who is only a fiction, a mythology created by the imagination of Paul.
The apostles are more credible than Paul.
It seems, from Acts, that even after Paul's (also Jewish first) influence that Christianity was meant to have a group of people who followed the Jewish covenant as well as those who didn't need to. The deep asketic tradition in Christianity that took root and continues today (in many long- founded monastic groups) is still rooted most deeply in the Psalms of David, those works Jesus himself quoted most often.
Dan , I am Jewish and you are correct. It is counter-intuitive. If Jesus was a religious Jew he did NOT think the Mosaic law applied to genitiles. Most think since he himself is perfectly following the Mosaic Law he must have wanted gentiles to. That was not the belief of religious Jews in the first century.
Everything the Ebionites believed in came straight from either Jesus, Matthew and James. They truly looked up to Matthew and followed his actual books completely.
Thank you so much for being so informative, it's almost impossible to get information in such a clear, concise and religious agenda free manner
Exactly.This gentleman and religion for breakfast have really helped on my way through a very difficult existential crisis. The most important ingredient for that which caught my attention was this stern academic impartialism.
This was a crisis which continued for the past 25 years, since my teens almost solved in 2 years with serious reading and watching videos for direction. I feel i have created many more intriguing questions in the past 2 years, but never waste time or lower my quality of life anymore, for someone else's historical perspective (modern religion)
@@c5quared626 here is an answer from AFRICAN perspective : THEY ARE ALL MADE UP, IMAGINARY IDEAS!!!
Great series, keep it up!
Why is the story and the traditions of the Ebionites reminding me of the traditions and life styles of my people in east Africa, i.e., Tigraians? Tigraians are of Semitic origin but they are Orthodox religion followers. However, their traditions are almost entirely Jewish and they have many elements of the Ebionites mentioned in the video. May be some Ebionites made it to that part of the world at some point of time.
thanks for your transparency
From the 2012 online article: "What do you know about the Ebionites and the Nazarenes?" by John Oakes:
"Another heretical group in the first century was known to later Orthodox Christians as the Ebionites. The name derives from a Hebrew word meaning “the poor ones.” Unlike the Judaizers, the origin and exact nature of what this group taught is somewhat obscure. Although their beginning was certainly in the first century, we do not have a New Testament book directed against this teaching (unlike the Judaizers and the Gnostics). Eusebius reported that the Ebionites were descended from the Jewish Christians who fled across the Jordan River to Pella when Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70. We cannot take this as authoritative, but it is logical as this was an essentially Jewish sect of Christianity which taught the necessity of obeying the Law of Moses. In this sense, of course, they were like the Judaizers, but they went much farther from the apostolic message. In the words of Eusebius, “They considered him a plain and common man and justified only by his advances in virtue.” In other words, according to Eusebius, this group denied the deity of Jesus. They also denied the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection of Jesus. They demanded observance of the Sabbath, yet they worshipped Jesus on Sundays. Eusebius’ comments are polemical in nature. It is possible he exaggerates their teaching. Justin Martyr described groups much like the Ebionites in his book Dialogue with Trypho. Irenaeus applied the label Ebionite to Judaizing Christians in AD 180. The church fathers agreed that this group rejected most of the New Testament, using only a Hebrew translation of Matthew they called the Gospel of the Hebrews."
"Liberal scholars have tried to create the impression that the Ebionites were a major movement which represents the original teaching of Jesus Christ more accurately than traditional, Orthodox Christianity. Their conclusions reflect more their own anti-Christian predilections than the historical facts. Although this Jewish sect of Christianity did create a bit of a ripple in the early church, all the evidence supports the idea that from the very beginning they were a small group. In fact, their importance may have been exaggerated both in what they taught and their influence in order to serve as a foil against which the church fathers taught. There is no reliable evidence that the heretical groups which came to be known as Ebionites were ever anything other than a minor Jewish sect of Christianity which tried to hold on to their Jewish identity after AD 70 when Christianity moved decisively away from its Jewish roots."
It seems like Islam by embracing Christian monotheism absorbed "heretical" Christians and Jews who liked moral and spiritual aspects of Christianity but couldn't deal with the "paganism" in the orthodoxy over time. Its interesting to think how many of these groups would still be around.
Not really there isent substantial evidence for splinter groups of Christians living in Arabia. A lot of the early Christian’s were murdered by the orthodox institution of Christianity.
@@AmonsRealm Yemen was Christian Lakhmids in Syria and Gassanids in Iraq were Christian
@Lalibela Dogo Indeed, I would believed that Islam is just a 'brand' name made by the followers. prophet Muhammad even said that His teaching is to conform the teachings of the previous prophet and their books, just like Jesus have said.
Christianity is not a monotheistic religion to begin with, at least not compared to Islam.
@@ansaif1976 have you asked the christian, they have one god or three god?
As a Unitarian I've wondered if this group could be considered to be one of my faith's "ancestors" although we don't have many Jewish (or traditional Christian) features nowadays.
11:06 that reminded me of Thomas Jefferson's Bible even though he went further and took out all the supernatural aspects of the Gospel stories.
You are correct they were in many ways the father of the faith . But what happened was the Church so hated them they branded them as heretics and crushed them. I am Jewish so they are of great interest to me. But I don't want to give you a wrong impression . Their theology was not always correct. The book of Isaiah has a "Unitarian flair " to it (and the Jewish Messiah was taken mainly from Isaiah). Isaiah clearly said the Messiah would be "for the world" and they said Jesus was only for the Jews.
Be careful of that though it does seem to make logical sense. Many only believed in the miracles , both Jew and Gentile . Why would you exclude those wonderful people. In the Torah it says , if you recite a Hebrew prayer and do not know what the Hebrew means (very common among Jews) the prayer goes still goes to heaven.
@@winstonshipman8734"only for the Jews" means they believed that gentiles had to convert and become Jewish.
What's a Unitarian? Is it a Christian sect? What's your belief?
Well .. Unitarianism is fairly modern .... But I guess I can see the conceptual connection you're making.
Great video. Learning about the Ebonite's was a key phase in my deconstruction of Evangelicalism. I had the idea that there was this perfect "ur-Christianity", but that's very clearly not the case. But that's ok, because every religion is like that, which is part of the fun in studying them.
My Episcopalian priest explained it using a metaphor of tree. All kinds of trees but anyone can look at them and go “yup that’s a tree”. Are their edge cases like the Banzai or certain woody bushes? Sure, but the category still stands
Yeah - talk about deconstructing the evangelicals - now those are some people who seriously need to be deconstructed! They're so keen on ferreting out heresy and false doctrine because the truth is that THEY were the first heretics, and Paul, their founder was the original apostate from the true faith.
@@dstinnettmusic yep, ALL are IMAGINARY! !!
@@tesmith47
But, this doesn’t mean they can’t point to truths. The idea of certain particles or various elements of nature envisioned in antiquity was just abstract metaphysical speculation until science and experimentation started confirming some of these ideas. I think of some kind of God or creator in the same way. Yeah like all ideas, it’s man-made, but that doesn’t automatically make it false.
Hello can you elaborate exactly what learning about ebionites taught you?
Both the Essene Ebionim and Christian Ebionites called their life style "The Way." Both were vegetarian. Both emphasized a simple, austere way of life. Both embraced a "Two Ways" doctrine and contrasted the "children of light and darkness." Both were apocalyptic. Both shared their belongings within their community. Both believed in resurrection/eternal life and had an eschatological view of "the end times." Both revered angels. Both considered the Book of Enoch to be scripture.
'I am.. THE WAY to the Father'..
'Forsake all and follow (imitate) Me'.
@@davidlissowski5030 David, that was John's take on what Jesus said. I was referring to the fact that the followers of Jesus referred to their faith as "the way," just as the essenes did.
@@davidlissowski5030 Also found in the Didache: "There are two Ways: a Way of Life and a Way of Death, and the difference between these two Ways is great. The Way of Life is this: "Thou shalt love first the Lord thy Creator, and secondly thy neighbour as thyself...""
He was a Jew who said “I came to uphold the law not to replace it”, he also celebrated Passover- that was the last supper. Greeks turned him into a pagan god.
No, they didn’t.
Very interesting as usual Filip, and it kinds of confirm my view that Paul was the "inventor" of Christianity as we know it, while he, Jesus, came as a prophet in the line of the previous prophets, and never meant to create his own religion and name it after himself.
Paul did not invent Christianity nor did he intend on creating a new religion. He just proposed that Jesus had grafted gentiles into the covenant.
@@1otterclan no, Paul also taught anti-obedience to the God of Jesus
Can you make a video about the Native religions of the Caucasus? I heard it is a bit more in Abxazia and the non native religions in Caucasus were effcted by them. They get almost no attention
Nice clear summary of first century events. I highly recommend Reza Aslan's book "Zealot" and Monty Python's movie "Life of Brian". It can't be emphasized enough how many "messiahs" and splinter groups were part of the scene at the time. Kind of like upstate New York in the early 19th century but without the Roman wine, aqueducts, sewer systems, low crime rates... The fact that Paul was literate and saw recruitment and spread as prime directives left James and his crew in the dust.
I think what left Jesus brother James 'in the dust ' was being pushed off a building !
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The core belief that Jesus was there to make subtle amendments to Judaism rather than totally rejecting it is also in line with the views of Islam, with Jesus calling himself "a Prophet to the sons of Israel" and that he is sent to allow "some" of what they'd been forbidden to do. Their presence in Arabia is definitely an exciting topic
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If James; brother of Jesus was Jewish and obeyed the Jewish law and had a Church of Jewish followers; who followed their own gospel according to very Jewish customs, why would it be written in Greek or Aramaic. Would these lost gospels been written in Hebrew, for a Jewish audience living in Jerusalem?
Thoughts?
By the 1st century Hebrew (meaning Paleo-Hebrew; the language of the Jews of the OT) was an archaic language that wasn't commonly spoken anymore.
Hebrew started to die out as a spoken language around 600 years before Jesus at the time of the invasion by the Babylonians. This was replaced by Aramaic, and by the time of Jesus, Jews in Jerusalem and the Holy Land would have been speaking either Aramaic or Greek as their first language. Hebrew would have been a language that only Rabbis and those who studied the Torah would have been taught and understood. It would probably have been to Jesus and his followers much like Old English or Latin is to the average English speaking person today.
The original gospels were almost certainly written in Greek, although some scholars believe they may have been written in Aramaic first and then translated into Greek. But either way, these are the languages that the average 1st century Jew would have understood and used on a daily basis.
According to Papias the gospel of Matthew was written in Hebrew.
As always an excelente and very comprehensive video. Thanks for your work
Loved this!
Wonder if the prophet Muhammad first wife “Khadeja” has anything to do with the ebonites mindset. I recall something about her initially being Christian before accepting islam
khadeja(r.a) belong to a arabian monotheistic sect called 'hanif',these people didn't associate their religion with jews or christians,they believed that this was the religion of their father(ishmeal) and didn't sacrifice animals to idols.They just believed in the god of abraham.
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That’s interesting, is there any known historical documents or known historical locations where “ hanifs “ used to reside?
Muhammad's wife khadija was following the religion of pre islamic quraish
There is a recorded authentic hadith in musnad ahmed that muhammad says to her he will never worship allat or uzza this imply she worshiped the arabian gods before Muhammad's first revelation
Her cousin maybe was an ebionite
Aisha, the wife of Muhammad said that waraqa was writing the gospel in hebrew the mainstream christinity write the gospels in greek or latin but the ebionite wrote in hebrew maybe this is why waraka was interested in muhammad's encounter in cave hira
@@pokerthejoker2164 No, there isn't, but then again historical records of pre-Islamic Arabia are nearly impossible to get a hold of.
I just remembered that I once went to a Lecture at Macquarie University in which the speaker indicated he thought there was a “ seperate” Jesus movement in the Galilee centred around the family of Jesus but he offered no proof or evidence. I always wondered what it might have been as there was certainly something happening in Damascus at the time of James in Jerusalem.
There supposedly have been some mosaics found in the Gailee area which poss show Jesus (and Mary - and choose your own mary to fit I guess), but there might be a difference between 'Worship' and following the words attributed to Jesus in terms of lifestyle within the general Jewish, monothestic, framework.
@@highpath4776 yes. Certainly the sense one gets from writings such as Thomas is that knowing Jesus’ words and acting in them is the supreme task. Actually this is emphisized in John 15 also …. Know and do the words of Jesus. Unfortunately I have met so many folk who have “faith” but are blissfully ignorant of the majority of what Jesus said except for a handful of favourite chapters which the read over and over for their psych- spiritual comfort.
I have long wondered when the Ebionites split off, because, if they were there in Paul's churches, then, as people began to perceive Jesus as G-d, Paul would have been talking about how to reconcile this difference - to people who recited the Sh'ma every day (there is only one God), and well before the development of the concept of the Trinity, this would have been completely unacceptable. But Paul didn't talk about that - the conflict he talked about, between Jewish and Gentile church members was over food, and his stricture was more of the nature of 'since some of your congregation don't eat pork, it isn't nice to bring bacon butties to the shared meal'.
This is an interesting bit of History, I'm sure you are familiar with the book of Sirach. I was reading through it a couple weeks ago and noticed something rather interesting, the exact layout and wording of that book is almost identical to the middle length discourses of the Buddha. Now I know Yeshua Ben Siroc is not remembered as Jesus but some people do believe that this man was Christ and that the two figures were one in the same. I have no idea simply because I haven't read that much into it but if that is Jesus then this video ties together the Buddha and Christ that much more. I know there's discrepancies with the dates however as imperfect beings that we are we have a tendency to get small things wrong, it's just food for thought and I think it's highly fascinating because what if actually those two figures are one in the same?
Interesting, but you'd have to provide some evidence. The Book of Sirach talks about God. The Lord constantly. Pretty sure Buddha doesn't.
@@elsoil3387 well you can start with the book in the Buddha's words and obviously the book of sirach, not bringing God into this the wording of everything and its meaning are the same between a lot of passages and in the same order
When I hear something like this, my first thought is typically to inquire into the dating of the texts. Unfortunately, such efforts seem to have been applied much less thoroughly to texts outside the western tradition, but such work as has been done indicates that the dates of composition of all of the Buddhist canon is very uncertain. For example, I found this with google: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li_Canon
Scholars generally agree that the early books include some later additions.[52] Aspects of these late additions are or may be from a much earlier period.[53][54][55] Other aspects of the Pali Canon, such as the information about society and South Asian history, are in doubt because the Pali Canon was extensively redacted in the 5th- or 6th-century CE, nearly a thousand years after the death of the Buddha.[10] Further, this redacted Pali Canon of Sri Lanka itself mentions that the compilation had previously been redacted towards the end of 1st-century BCE. According to the Early Buddhism scholar Lars Fogelin, the Pali Canon of Sri Lanka is a modified Canon and "there is no good reason to assume that Sri Lankan Buddhism resembles Early Buddhism in the mainland, and there are numerous reasons to argue that it does not."
AND: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majjhima_Nik%C4%81ya
The Majjhima Nikāya (-nikāya; "Collection of Middle-length Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture....Composed between 3rd century BCE and 2nd century CE.
Ecclesiasticus was written by ben Sirach circa 180 BC. Thus any influence (and I have not read the Buddhist canon so I am in no position to weigh in on the evidence for or against borrowings) could have gone in either direction, but there appears to have been more time for it to flow from Hellenized Judaism to the Indian subcontinent than vice versa.
@@michaels4255 I believe it's the diamond sutra which is not theravada Buddhism but mahayana which is a huge difference but going through that sutra you will find similarities with the book of sirach.
Filip, I LOVE your channel, and this is a great video. One caveat: most contemporary Paul scholars agree that Paul does not free Jewish followers of Jesus from Torah, but only insists on gentile inclusion apart from rites of conversion/Torah observance. This view-the “Paul Within Judaism Schule”-is rightly displacing the “New Perspective.”
I agree, his information on this point is somewhat outdated.
Hey, Perennial Digression! I'm a subscriber of both your and Filip's work so very cool to see you here. I used to do a lot of reading in Wright's "New Perspective," his Paul trilogy, etc. What's the definitive work from the "Paul Within Judaism" School? Thanks!
@@joelcerimele3217 A good representative is Paula Fredriksen, Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle.
Paul is definitely not a friend of the Jewish christians, James the Just and Peter. Even if Paul was more pro Torah then was suggested, Paul failed in that and because of his letters, gentile christianity emerged and took over the original jewish teaching of Jesus. I believe 95% of all that is because of Paul, wether he meant it or not
@@jasonstewart7834 His letters are addressed to his apostolate: gentiles. He should not be conflated with his later readers who assumed his intentions were antisemitic.
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In any religious or intellectual or cultural conflict there are 'winners' and 'losers.' While the 'winners' usually write the history, the 'losers' are so fascinating.
The Apostle Paul and his followers became the 'winners' in this early debate over Christianity's relationship to Judaism and the Ebionites became the 'losers' and as a result are so interesting.
I think part of the reason that 'losers' are so fascinating is the counterfactual question: "What if?" What if the 'losers' had won? How would the course of history have changed?
What if the Ebionites had become the 'winners"? What would Christianity look like today? It probably wouldn't be the largest religion in the world as it is presently. Paul's more universalist and less rigorous version of Christianity helped Christianity to adapt to many different cultures and aided it's future growth.
I like the evolution of your beard. Also, great video.
Hey bro! Great video! James and Peter were not apposed to Paul, peter baptized the first gentile believers in the Church Acts ch 10, and also advocated that the Gentile believers of Jesus weren’t permitted to follow The Law which James agreed on in the Jerusalem counsel Acts 15:5-21. Peter affirms Paul and even his writings as scripture in 2peter 3:14-16. there is no writings to my knowledge suggesting Paul, Peter and James were against each other but that they were moving in a way to advance Gods message starting with the Jews and then moving on to including Gentiles who took on faith to the Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ.
Another interesting video here ! Quick correction/contention at 5:35. James and Peter were *not* the ones who argued that gentiles should have to convert to Judaism,circumcise, nor follow mosaic law.
In fact James agreed with Paul but simply tried to reach a compromise.
This whole situation is best highlighted in the Council of Jerusalem (51 AD) found in Acts 15.
It was specifically the Jewish converts who were former Pharisees who were arguing for gentiles to convert ;
Acts 15:5
[5] But *some believers* who belonged to the *party of the Pharisees* rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”
Peter then responds disagreeing with the Pharisees and supporting Paul ;
Acts 15:7-13
[7] And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers ……. [10] Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?”
Lastly James, the brother of Jesus and the de facto leader agrees with Paul, and finalizes the matter ; Acts 15:19-20
[19] Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, [20] but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.”
This turned out pretty long lol, but in conclusion it was mainly the Pharistic sect of Jewish Christians (who the Ebionites would truly mimic down the line) who held that position.
Peter and James were actually in agreement with Paul and after consideration formed a compromise and consensus.
Not saying you did so here, but a lot of people like to exaggerate the rift between Paul and the disciples (+James). I Don think that to be the case.
The problem with the evidence you present is that it was written by a Pauline Christian who would have reason to misconstrue the events as favouring Paul’s interpretation of events. It also isn’t historically accurate, not being written by an eyewitness at all.
@@mugikuyu9403 “written by a Pauline Christian “ That’s a Genetic Fallacy right there, the position of the source for the documentation of the council of Jerusalem has no bearing on whether it was transmitted faithfully.
To assume that, we would need to see some evidence of misconstruing of the account.
“not historically accurate, not being written by eyewitness at all” Firstly an account doesn’t need to be written by an eyewitness in order to be historically accurate.
We have 0 eyewitnesses sources for Hannibal’s trek into the Alps for example , doesn’t mean the accounts we have are automatically historically inaccurate.
With that said, that’s also not true, the author of Acts states that he was present when Paul returned to Jerusalem after the council, and met with James when James was issuing the the letter that agreed with Paul’s position.
This can be noted from acts 20:6 when the author begins to use “us” and “we” as he accompanies Paul.
And specifically when the meet James in Acts 21:17-18 it states “[17] When *we* had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. [18] On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.
Thus not only was the author an eyewitness to James stating that he sent out a letter to the gentiles during the council affirming Paul’s position (Acts 21).
But he also would’ve had the opportunity to verify the accounts of the council back in Acts 15.
Now to be fair, this is what the author claims, and since we weren’t there we can’t confirm or deny that with 100% certainty.
But there is 0 basis to simply say definitively that the author is not an eyewitness.
Also regarding historical accuracy the author of acts is extremely precise in his historical documentation.
For more on this, see “The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History” by Colin Hemer were he lays out 80+ historical facts Acts gets correct about it’s era & region.
Cheers.
By what Paul had written you can test him.
Interesting topic, especially for Muslims, as this is one of the major conflicts depicted in the Quran regarding Jesus.
According to the Quran, Jesus was sent to Jewish people. He was never called "Jewish" but he's certainly a "messenger" and "prophet" sent to Jewish people (Quran 3:50). The Quran however distincts between Christians and Jews. The Quran calls Jewish people to stick to the teachings they have in the Torah, while also calling for Christians to stick to their Gospel (Quran 5:43 - 5:47). God (Allah) in the Quran acknowledges that people were given different religious laws (books, teachings etc..) yet the essence of the message in each of them is similar (Quran 22:67). The essential message among all prophets/messengers is that there's one God only, and nothing else to be worshiped or compared to Him. But here's where the conflict starts when it comes to Christianity and their view of Jesus. See, Jews believe in one God which makes their message in line with what all the prophets taught, yet Christianity (more accurately - Christians) deviated from this notion.
In the Qur'aan, Jewishness is not recial or ethnic but a faith; but as ethnic they are referred to as a banuu- / banii-Israa'iil
Islam is not the way. Mat 19 17
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I'm vibing with this.
I am no scholar but I remember reading somewhere, perhaps in a Wikipedia article, that the prophet Mani's (founder of Manichaeism) mother was an Ebionite. I don't know what scholarly basis that might have but it sounds interesting and would witness to the continuing strength and survival of Ebionitism in that part of the world and at that time.
I think Mani’a parents were Elkasites, yet another Judson- Christian movement.
Makes you wonder how many we don’t know about.
I think Mani knew a great deal more being that the stories of the Buddha, Zoroaster, and Jesus are very similar, I think he understood that this was a narrative of a broader spiritual enlightenment, that could take multiple forms.
I never heard of Druze until a few years ago when I met a Syrian refugee in Hamburg of Druze heritage, but secularized.
He told me that in Druze religion they discuss Jesus, John the Baptist, Socrates, Empedocles, Mohammed, Moses, and others whom they considered prophets, this variation of high regard for near East and Greek philosophy was striking as it seemed like a demand to preserve a classics education.
Elevation of Jesus beyond philosopher IMO has done more harm than good.
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Some years ago, when I was teaching English at a small Methodist College, I happened to mention in class that Jesus was a Jew. A young man with a Middle European name became quite upset at this idea. To keep the class on topic, I told him to come see me in my office later.
He showed up in my office a day or two later, carrying his ratty old cloth bound notebook; I tried to explain to him that Jesus and all his original apostles were Jewish, born and raised in Palestine. He only became more upset at the idea. I happened to glance down at his notebook; there were swastikas drawn with a ballpoint pen all over the cover.
I calmed his best I could and escorted him to the door.
So proof racists are stupid?
Press X to doubt.
Did you ask him why it upset him so much?
The obedient must be slaves
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What age was this student - Im assuming 6th form?
@@chendaforest It was in the US. First year college class. I'd guess he was 18 or so
Another fascinating episode. Thanks from an unrepentant atheist in Vienna, Scott
Perhaps it would be worth an exploration of the spice caravans that carried goods from Aden ( from India and beyond ) along the Red Sea from Yemen to Damascus. This was an important route 2000+ years ago and there are a couple of Jewish cemeteries near today's Yemen. There was a story in the papers in the 1970s that at one point the digs for the Jewish cemetery was discontinued abruptly, cancelled by the Saudi government. Any more news on this ?
Question. Bart Ehrman said that the Ebionites believed that Jesus sacrificed himself for the sins of mankind. That thought was taught by Paul and they saw him as a false apostle. This means that Barts statement was inaccurate?
As Muslims we believe there was a minor religion in Hijaz known as Hanifi, who believed in the Jewish prophets and Jesus as a human prophet. Muhammad pbuh and some of his relatives belonged to this religion. What he preached at 40 was based on this foundation, and what we now know as Islam is only a perfection of the Hanifi doctrine.
@@athifmuhammed8817 They did believe in the prophethood of Abraham and his sons, i.e that they were sent by God to preach the true religion.
Hanif is strict monotheism worshiping God alone no kids no partners no images no idols no creation or created beings
Islam says that since first man Adam Islam existed but mankind got corrupted and worshipped nature man etc
Poll: Let’s change the name “Christianity” to “Paulinity”.
Every Christian today: praise Paul and eat that swine!
Your videos are amazing. I appreciate your channel a lot man! Keep it up! (Also, can we please get a video on Zen? Christian author and monk Thomas Merton wrote very interesting books on Zen from a Christian perspective, it sparked my interested given the fact that it has become quite popular in the West)
Are you talking about Zen buddhism?
@@experience741Real Zen in Zen Buddhism. Zen Buddhism is without any influence from other religions
Imagine a podcast between this scholar and Jordan Peterson, I would pay for it!
Jordan Peterson is not a scholar of religion
@@SonofSethoitae you're right, he's not, but he is very interested in religion as of late, so an interview kind of podcast between him and philip would be stellar
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Hi Filip!
Would you ever consider doing a video on the Sabbateans or the Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi and his descendants?
It's quite a controversial topic and all that I can find are from extremely biased sources
There's a video on the RUclips channel Religion for Breakfast about him. Also, Filip does mention Sabbatai Zevi in his video on Hasidism.
There is an essential mistake in this, which is identifying James and Peter with the “Judaizers” as opponents of Paul. Acts 15 completely contradicts such an idea.
Yep. Peter and James agreed with Paul that Gentiles don't need to keep Jewish Law. This guy also pretends that James had higher authority than Paul which wasn't the case. In fact James was late to the party since he didn't believe in Jesus when he was alive.
@@gianlucarossi5672: He believed in him after he was alive again. So says I Cor. 15: “Afterward he appeared to James and all the Apostles.”
Great episode. Very interesting topic, and intriguing possibilities around connections between Ebionites in the Arabian peninsula and future threads of religious thought. Not surprising given that there were Jewish communities in Arabia before the rise of Islam, and there had been trade going on between the peninsula and the Levant along different routes.
It's hard to know if those Jews were from the original tribes or Arab converts. If you look at their pictures on line they look like converts with a few Jewish faces . That was probaly what happened.
@@winstonshipman8734 Did people of the Jewish faith in the Middle East look much different from their Arab neighbors, native Egyptians, other non-Hellenistic peoples of the Middle East back in the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries? So not talking Ashkenazi Jews, but those who lived in across the Middle East prior to the rise of that category of Sephardic Jews (narrowly are defined as members of Iberian Jewish communities that got expelled in the 15th century, and migrated across the Mediterranean).
This is pure speculation my Christian brothers , but the story the non-believing Jews told about Jesus was that he was the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier . I do not say this as an insult because "endless Christians " might be very happy to have him half European instead of fully Jewish . Perhaps this story is why Constantine was so quick to accept him as Messiah.
This would also explain his European appearance in the famous paintings.
@@winstonshipman8734 There is not much in the way of physical description of Jesus (or Yeshua, his Jewish name). As for representations in famous paintings, believe those were done by Europeans long after his death, like centuries. Not sure that those works were very representative of what everyone who belonged to the various Jewish communities in the Middle East looked like.
The question then is, what art is there of clearly Jewish people in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia from the first, second, third, fourth centuries, etc.? Is there the equivalent of painted portraits of Fayum found on coffins?
As for the Jesus dad story, that seems to be something that Origen referred to, when noting the criticisms of Celsus, in the second century AD. Celsus was a Greek philosopher who wrote attacks on Christianity. Origen was from a Hellenized Alexandrian family, a city that was noted for early Jewish pogroms, born at the end of the second century. The Panthera legionary story may have come from Jewish sects angered at the claims of the various Christian sects, but those broadcasting it over a hundred and fifty years later were Greeks, or quite Hellenized persons, who were rhetoricians putting forth arguments.
the Isrealites were from the Levent and they look just like modern Syrians and Palestinians and not much diffrent from the Arabs of the peninsula " just little bite lighter " @@winstonshipman8734
A beautiful, beautiful video, Filip! Yes, it is a terrible pity that not much of the early Jewish Christians survives - we don't have a library of recently discovered literature, like we do with the Gnostics. And of course, you have to distinguish these early Jewish Christians, who were truly Jewish, from the modern "Jews for Jesus" movement - folks who are evangelical Christian wolves in Jewish sheep's clothing.
Hey LTR, can you explain how Jesus became such a big deal? He only preached for 3 years and Roman records of him are scant. How did his ideas go onto to have such an impact on the Jewish groups?
Apparently some people thought he was "more" than just a man.
If Josephus is to be believed (and James the Just is the apostle James) then it wasn't Jesus who had an impact on the Jewish groups but James. Josephus descibes James as being the most Judaically pure and righteous Jewish leader in the Jerusalem of his time, and widely acclaimed as such DESPITE claiming his brother was the Messiah. According to Josephus it was James' death that had a direct political impact on the Jewish world, not Jesus'. James lived on until right near the start of the First Romano-Jewish War, well over thirty years after Jesus' crucifixion and nearly twenty years after Paul disappeared off the records (probably executed). That's a long time to cement his brother's legacy in the Jewish community.
Every prophet is given by God some miracles and unusual powers to bring The change in society and revolution right on time. So any prophet who would come even for a year he will leave behind a powerful revolution because he is aided by God and angels. And certain unusual events will happen that would shake up society. Prophet Jesus (pbuh) were given the most unusual miracles that were not given to any other prophet. His birth was miraculous, He could raise the dead by the will of God. He is the only prophet who is still alive and will come back second time on earth. I think God gave Jesus (pbuh) the most unusual kind of miracles that no other prophet has been given.