. Yeshua said: "Blessed in spirit are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".

In The World And Not Of It

If you call yourself a Christian, Jew, Messianic believer, Evyonim, Nazarene or Muslim, then it is imperative that you learn of the Ebionites who are True Spiritual Israel -- They are the Poor Ones to the ways and thinking of this world --
The Ebionites were the Israelites of the Nazirene Vow
They are/were the Genuine Disciples of Yeshua/Jesus who are in the world and not of it!

Disciples by Imitation of Messiah/Christ

They often quoted the words of Yeshua/Jesus ( Matt. 10: 24- 25 ) as their warrant, and affirmed their motto to be: "We also would be imitators of Christ" (Origen, quoted by Schliemann). Yeshua/Jesus, they asserted, "was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would have been the Christ." Hence "when Ebionites thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs" (Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34). The Ebionites remained faithful to the teachings of Yeshua/Jesus: That he was our elder brother -- that as the Children of God, each of us has the potential to do what he did -- that when we receive the Anointing (Messiah/Christ), that we will know what he knew -- and as Children of the Most High, we can be At-One with Our Heavenly Father by walking in TheWay, and beginning our own return journey of the Prodigal Son/daughter back to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination from which we originally emerged.

And what was the Ebionite Nazirene beliefs about Yeshua/Jesus: "They revered Jesus as the greatest of the prophets, endowed with supernatural virtue and power. They ascribed to his person and to his future reign all the predictions of the Hebrew oracles which relate to the spiritual and everlasting kingdom of the promised Messiah" (Gibbon; Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.2, P.222).

The Essence of TheWay

Yeshua/Jesus did not come to promote belief in the Messiah/Christ - neither did he come to promote the worship of Messiah/Christ - Jesus came to teach the people TheWay to become Messiah/Christ, and fulfill the vision of a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation of Anointed (Messiah/Christ) Disciples who are set aside for the service of the Most High God that Yeshua taught was the Father of all of mankind. The path of TheWay could not be walked by many Jews because they were carnal in their perception of the Law (Torah), and could not use the Key of Knowledge to open the inner door to the Kingdom. In like manner, the majority of the Roman and Greek followers who were too Pagan to embrace the teachings of Yeshua, were not interested in a life of genuine change and spiritual transformation, so they made Jesus their God so they didn't have to pick up their own cross and follow in TheWay. Thus, the Church itself betrayed and crucified Messiah/Christ when it immersed itself in the way of the heathen, and worshiped the messenger instead of imitating the pattern and example that Yeshua set as the required standard for all those who called upon the name of the Lord. The Good News is that once you understand and are willing to live in accordance with the Original teachings of the New Covenant, the Promise is that you will Know the Truth for yourself as you are permitted entrance into the Kingdom within you (Lk 17:20-21).

Yeshua/Jesus Predicted the Corruption of His Teachings

Yeshua/Jesus Said: "But the time cometh when darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people, and the enemies of truth and righteousness shall rule in my name, and set up a kingdom of this world and oppress the peoples.... putting for my doctrines the opinions of men, and teaching in my name that which I have not taught and darkening much that I have taught by their traditions. But be of good cheer, for the time will also come when the truth they have hidden shall be manifested and the light shall shine, and the darkness shall pass away and the true kingdom shall be established which shall be in the world but not of it, and the word of righteousness and love shall go forth from the Center...."

Yeshua/Jesus Said: "There shall arise after you, men of perverse minds who shall through ignorance or through craft, suppress many things which I have spoken unto you, and lay to me things which I never taught....Woe is the time when the spirit of the world entereth into the Church, and my doctrines and precepts are made void through the corruptions of men and women....But the time cometh when the things which they have hidden shall be revealed and made known, and the truth shall make free those which were bound"

Yeshua/Jesus Said: "They shall make alliance with the kings and rulers of the world and seek earthly power, and riches, and domination, and put to death by fire and sword those who seek the truth, and therefore are truly my disciples. And in their days, Jesus, shall be crucified a-fresh and put to open shame, for they will profits to do these things in my name. As I shall be nailed to the cross, so also shall my Church in those days, for she is my Bride and one with me. But the day shall come when this darkness shall pass away, and the true light shall shine.... And my Church shall be filled with Light and give Light unto all nations of the earth...."

In the same way that Yeshua warned that his genuine disciples will be rejected by the people of this world -- and especially those of the Counterfeit religions -- The plight of the True Ebionite followers of Messiah/Christ is perhaps best portrayed by Gibbon when he wrote that they were “…rejected from one religion as apostates, and from the other as heretics” (Gibbon: Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, v.1, p.416). The true followers of Yeshua are neither Jewish or Christian -- the True Disciples of Yeshua are rejected by both Jews and Christians -- having undergone a spiritual transformation, they are of the Kingdom, and not of this world! This requirement can then be likened to the words of Yeshua where it is written: "When the Lord was asked by a certain man, when should his kingdom come, he said unto him, when two shall be one and the without as the within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female” From the perspective of the New Covenant and the teachings of TheWay, this can then be interpreted to mean: "When the Lord was asked when should the Kingdom come, he said, when the Inner Kingdom is manifest in the Outer life, the division of heaven and earth overcome in the body, and when the Jew and Christian has been negated, and the Disciple is neither Jew nor Christian -- but One with the Lord -- and you live as Children of the Light -- Only then can the Kingdom come within you!"

The Children of the Light who were the Disciples of TheWay, were neither Christian nor Jew because they were Spiritual Israel -- the Children of the Kingdom. This is perhaps best demonstrated in the words of the Apostle Peter as written by his disciple Clement: “Neither, therefore, are the Hebrews condemned on account of their ignorance of Jesus, by reason of Him who has concealed Him, if, doing the things commanded by Moses, they do not hate Him whom they do not know. Neither are those from among the Gentiles condemned, who know not Moses on account of Him who hath concealed him, provided that these also, doing the things spoken by Jesus, do not hate Him whom they do not know. And some will not be profited by calling the teachers lords, but not doing the works of servants. For on this account our Jesus Himself said to one who often called Him Lord, but did none of the things which He prescribed, ‘Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?’ For it is not saying that will profit any one, but doing. By all means, therefore, is there need of good works. Moreover, if any one has been thought worthy to recognize both as preaching one doctrine, that man has been counted rich in God, understanding both the old things as new in time, and the new things as old.”

While Christians and Jews argue endlessly not only with each other, but also among themselves, each has been alienated from the Kingdom by their own creation of manmade doctrines and traditions. And while the preservation of each is necessary to sustain the teachings of TheWay, the above also demonstrates that each is equally in error by virtue of their own blindness.

Ebionites did not believe Yeshua/Jesus was God

In the manner of the Pagan Gentiles

The early Christian writer Irenaeus states that they: “...represented Jesus as having not been born of a virgin, but as being the son of Joseph and Mary according to the ordinary course of human generation, while he nevertheless was more righteous, prudent, and wise than other men. Moreover, after his baptism, Christ descended upon him in the form of a dove from the Supreme Ruler, and that then he proclaimed the unknown Father, and performed miracles” (Irenaeus, Bk 1, Ch 26, doctrines of Cerinthus). Those who worship Jesus as God, worship a false god. Yeshua commanded to imitate him, not worship him! The Bible teaches that Jesus was a man who became the Messiah/Christ at his baptism, and the Son of God at the crucifixion. His disciples believed that Yeshua was a man who was in mystical union with the Indwelling Son of God. What this means is that modern Christian dogma which is founded upon Plato's Doctrine of the Trinity, and forced upon the religion by the Pagan Emperor Constantine is what is believed by Christians today? History reveals that the followers of Yeshua/Jesus rejected the name Christian because it was already used by enlightened initiates into the Greek Mystery religions prior to the advent of Yeshua. History reveals that those who were taught directly by Yeshua, believed that Yeshua became the Messiah of God by virtue of a “supernatural union of a man and God... In their eyes, Jesus of Nazareth was a mere mortal, the legitimate son of Joseph and Mary: but he was the best and wisest of the human race, selected as the worthy instrument to restore upon earth the worship of the true and supreme Deity. When he was baptized in the Jordan, the Christ, the first of the aeons, the Son of God himself, descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, to inhabit his mind, and direct his actions during the allotted period of his ministry” (Gibbon; The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, V.4, P.366). Which means that in worshiping Jesus instead of imitating him as the pattern for all to follow, modern Christian has reduced themselves to a people who worship a false god and are turned out of TheWay.

The Ebionites were Torah/Law Observant

But NOT Torah Observant in the Ritualistic Manner of the Jews

On the central theme of the alleged beliefs ascribed to the Ebionites, the early church writer Hippolytus tells us: “They live conformably to the customs of the Jews, alleging that they are justified according to the law, and saying that Jesus was justified by fulfilling the law. And therefore it was, (according to the Ebionaeans,) that (the Savior) was named (the) Christ of God and Jesus, since not one of the rest (of mankind) had observed completely the law. For if even any other had fulfilled the commandments (contained) in the law, he would have been that Christ. And the (Ebionaeans allege) that they themselves also, when in like manner they fulfill (the law), are able to become Christs; for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in a like sense with all the rest of the human family” (Hippolytus; The Refutation of All Heresies, Bk 7, Ch 22, Doctrine of the Ebionaeans).

The Ebionites were the believers and disciples of Yeshua who were originally Essenes, and came to be called "the poor ones" (Ebionites) with the advent of Yeshus and the charge to be in the world and not of it. Gibbon writes that the family of Yeshua were Ebionites. The Nazoreans were the Pharisee converts to the teachings of Yeshua, and they embraced a more literal and ritualistic interpretation of the Law (Torah). Like the Essenes, the Ebionites were Jewish Mystics and Gnostics (experiential spiritual knowledge) who interpreted the Law as a Living Threefold Revelation. They used only the most ancient and original of the Gospels written in Hebrew Characters, and interpreted it allegorically as seen in the words of St. Jerome: "A difficult work is enjoined, since this translation has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist, did not wish to be openly written. For if it had not been Secret, he would have added to the evangel that which he gave forth was his; but he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such a way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious, who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, and its text they related some one way and some another".

This Secret more Spiritual version of the Book of Matthew was referred to by Gibbon where he wrote: "But the secret and authentic history has been recorded in several copies of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, which these sectaries long preserved in the original Hebrew, as the sole evidence of their faith." Additional information regarding the original Hebrew Gospel of Matthew is provided by Jerome in his work, O Illustrious Men, on James the Lord's brother: "Further, the Hebrew itself (or original) is preserved to this day in the library at Caesarea which was collected with such care by the martyr Pamphilus. I also had an opportunity of copying it afforded me by the Nazarenes who use the book, at Beroea, a city of Syria". Of the Hebrew original of Matthew, Gibbon writes: "the fact is attested by a chain of fathers - Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Jerome, etc… But this Hebrew Gospel of St. Matthew is most unaccountably lost; and we may accuse the diligence or fidelity of the primitive churches, who have preferred the unauthorized version of some nameless Greek". Gibbon rightfully calls our copy of Matthew the "unauthorized version of some nameless Greek", because the only true Gospel attributed to Matthew is the original Hebrew version which was never given to the Gentile Church, and we no longer possess today.

The Sacred Knowledge entrusted to the Ebionite followers of Yeshua was kept so secret, that even Epiphanius, writing as early as the end of the fourth century, confesses his ignorance as to their real doctrine and writes that "they neither call themselves Iessaens, nor continue to hold the name of the Jews, nor name themselves Christians, but Nazarenes ... The resurrection of the dead is confessed by them ... concerning Christ, I cannot say whether they think him a mere man, or as the truth is, confess that he was born through the Holy Pneuma from the Virgin."

The Children Of Hell!

Yeshua/Jesus, Moses, as well as all enlightened Jewish and Christian visionaries, all taught that there are Two Ways -- TheWay of Life, and the "broad-way" that leads to destruction! Because the Jewish sects of the Sadducees and Pharisees at the time that Yeshua walked the earth were blind to the inner spiritual meaning of the Law (Torah), and in their blindness they misled the people with their manmade traditions and their literal and ritual interpretations of the written word, Yeshua called them the offspring of the god of this world (Satan). Thus, the teachings of TheWay which were known as the New Covenant among the Spiritual Israelites known as the Essenes, came to be formalized by Yeshua in order to free the people from having to follow the way of the Jewish priests and teachers of the Law -- whose manmade doctrines brought about the peoples suffering and spiritual destruction. In time a very worldly and unspiritual group of non-Jewish converts arose and referred to themselves as Orthodox Christians -- and these worldly believers who lived in the manner of the heathen, continued to embrace the redemptive philosophy of Mithraism, and condemned the Spiritual Christians who they labeled as heretics and Gnostics -- and then entered into a covenant reelationship with Rome that permitted the Emperor to dictate all religious doctrine of the new church which they called Roman Catholic, and as a consequence of this covenant with Rome, the Ebionite/Nazirenes as well as the Spiritual Christians were all hunted down and murdered. The result was that the teachings of TheWay became obstructed by the unspiritual mindset that had become foundational to the new church which now called itself Christian. The result was that the people once again became alienated from the Kingdom within (Luke 17:20-21), in much the same way that the people were alienated from the spiritual knowledge of TheWay by the priests and teachers of the Jewish sects of the Sadducees and Pharisees. In fact, it was this corruption of the teachings of TheWay that caused Muhammad to create a new religion founded upon the framework of teachings of both Judaism and Christianity where Yeshua was no longer portrayed as God in the manner that Pagan Rome recreated him. Muhammad's first wife was the daughter of the Ebionite Elder of Mecca, and he had himself been taught by the Nestorian Monks who had been banished from the Empire because they being Gnostic, refused to accept the religion of the Emperor. Thus, the foundation of Islam prior to it becoming institutionalized, is actually a synthesis of Ebionite and Christian Gnostic teachings.

Who Can Be An Ebionite?

Those who seek Truth over doctrine -- Knowledge over dogma -- Light over darkness -- Spirit over flesh -- who live by the Vow of the Nazirene -- who pick up their own cross and follow in the footsteps of the Master of TheWay -- who live a consecrated life in total dedication to the Lord -- who overcome their lower nature through the process of spiritual transformation -- who turn the Key of Knowledge which is the Law/Torah and other scriptures within them, in the endeavor to travail in the "narrow path" and open the "inner door" as they seek to undergo the next stage of birth in the Kingdom within. An Ebionite does not belong to a synagogue, church, temple or mosque of this world -- because temples of this world being an image and pattern of what is in Heaven, is idolatry -- an Ebionite enters the Inner Kingdom, and worships in the Temple made without hands that is Eternal.

		The Law is Spiritual! Yeshua commanded his disciples to Observe and Fulfill the Law/Torah. Not in the ritualistic manner of the Jews, but in a Spiritual manner by turning the Torah within them in the endeavor to open the Inner Narrow Door to the Kingdom. By doing this, Yeshua became the Lord's Anointed (Messiah/Christ), and One with that Principle known as the Indwelling Son of God.
		The Disciple of the Lord is always a Nazirene -- i.e., the People of the Vow -- a Consecrated and Anointed Chosen One of the Lord who is set apart from the world. Only those who are of the Vow of the Nazirene can know the Mysteries of God and the inner meaning of the Law/Torah that is the Keys of Knowledge that opens the Inner Door to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.
		The path of the Disciple of TheWay is a personal calling for the more mature believer. The Disciple must be willing to make the service to God the paramount and exclusive focus of their life. Such a person must become a person of absolute dedication to the Lord as a Servant in the calling and care of His flock.
		One Teacher and Rabbi in TheWay: In the Purity of the teachings of The Way, there can be no sects -- no opinions -- no manmade doctrines of belief -- no churches which call themselves by a name that separates them from another! In the Purity of the teachings of The Way, there is only One Teacher -- The Messiah -- and all genuine shepherds who are faithful to the Lord are merely guides who point The Way to the Presence of the Son of God. The disciple must therefore learn to apply the Key of Knowledge in their life so they can use it to open the inner "strait gate" to the Kingdom within.
		The Kingdom Must be Entered While Physically Alive: As the Disciple follows in the footsteps of Yeshua and journeys in The Way, they are not only able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the "strait gate", but as they continue to develop spiritually, they are able to simultaneously exist both in this world and in the Kingdom at the same time. This is the fulfillment of the Commandment of the Lord to be in the world and not of it!
		The Soul That Evolves to Perfection: Yeshua/Jesus taught that the soul of man evolves to perfection over the course of many lives. The Disciples of TheWay believed in reincarnation? You, therefore, cannot even be considered a true follower of Yeshua/Jesus, and not believe in reincarnation? Click the Lighthouse on the left and learn the answer to this profound and all-important paradoxical question that Jews and Christians today are unable to answer! It will shock you to learn the truth!
		You Must Be Born Again to Enter the Kingdom: Jews and Christians of the simple faith are as a fetus when compared to a Mature Disciple of Messiah/Christ! Are you pro-life? Traditional Church doctrines abort more Christians with respect to entering into Life, than does all the abortion clinics in the world. More Jews and Christians die by walking the Broad-way of Destruction because they cling to manmade doctrines of belief! They fail to embrace the words of Yeshua/Jesus when he commanded: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matt 7:13-14 NIV)
		How Did Yeshua Become the Messiah/Christ? The Bible teaches that Jesus was a man who became the Messiah/Christ for the first time at his baptism, and the Son of God at the crucifixion. His disciples believed that Jesus was a man who was in mystical union with the Indwelling Logos/Word. How much of modern Christian dogma which is founded upon Plato's Doctrine of the Trinity is valid in the life of the modern Christian today? You will be shocked to learn the truth!
		Things Christians Never Told Jews About the New Testament Scriptures. Did you know that the New Testament states that G-d did not want the majority of Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah? Not only the New Testament scriptures, but this fact is also confirmed in the Epistles of Paul, as well as the writings of Clement, the disciple of the Apostle Peter! Why? Because it was known beforehand that many of the Gentiles would be unable to embrace the higher concepts of the teachings of TheWay which came to be called Christianity -- and because the teachings themselves would become defiled and corrupted with Pagan/heathen concepts of religion, Judaism needed to be preserved separate, in order to preserve the bedrock from which truth could once again emerge more easily in the future.
		The Orthodox Corruption of the Scriptures: Was the Bible rewritten? Prof. Nestle writes: "Learned men, so called Correctores were, following the church meeting at Nicea 325 AD, selected by the church authorities to scrutinize the sacred texts and rewrite them in order to correct their meaning in accordance with the views which the church had just sanctioned." To ignore the facts is to alienate oneself from the Living Word of God
		The Gospel of the Nazirenes: What did the Gospels look like before being edited and re-written by the Church of Rome? What were the original beliefs of the first followers of Yeshua? You will be astonished when you read a surviving text of The Gospel of the Nazirenes which was hidden away from the corrupters of the Roman Church. Are you ready for a truly enlightening experience?
		The Secret Doctrine of Christianity: The Original Church was Spiritually Wholistic. It served the needs of the sinner through the milk of the simple faith - the seeker through the revelation of the Minor Mysteries - the Spiritually Mature through Gnostic Revelation. Come and learn the true teachings of Jesus that was taught only to his genuine disciples.

The Problem With Paul

Of the Ebionites it was noted by the early Church writer Irenaeus: "Those who are called Ebionites agree that the world was made by God... they use the Gospel of Matthew only, and repudiate the Apostle Paul, maintaining that he was an apostate from the Law." What does this mean? Did the Ebionites condemn Paul? Or did they condemn the misunderstandings of the Law that many spiritually ignorant non-Jews assumed Paul to be promoting? The problem is not so much with Paul -- but rather, the ignorance of both the Jews and the Christians with respect to why the Ebionites seemingly condemned Paul. Because few Jews today understand the Inner Spiritual Revelation of the Torah, the great majority of modern Jews have been alienated from their own religion. And because most non-Jews are too carnal to comprehend the very Gnostic Epistles of Paul, and in not understanding the inner meaning they falsely believe that Yeshua did away with the Law, the greater number of Christians and Messianic Jews have in fact alienated themselves from the teachings of TheWay that they claim to champion.

In the excellent book Christ or Paul?, the Rev. V.A. Holmes-Gore wrote: "Let the reader contrast the true Christian standard with that of Paul and he will see the terrible betrayal of all that the Master taught....For the surest way to betray a great Teacher is to misrepresent his message....That is what Paul and his followers did, and because the Church has followed Paul in his error it has failed lamentably to redeem the world....The teachings given by the blessed Master Christ, which the disciples John and Peter and James, the brother of the Master, tried in vain to defend and preserve intact were as utterly opposed to the Pauline Gospel as the light is opposed to the darkness."

The great theologian Soren Kierkegaard, writing in The Journals, echoes the above sentiment: "In the teachings of Christ, religion is completely present tense: Jesus is the prototype and our task is to imitate him, become a disciple. But then through Paul came a basic alteration. Paul draws attention away from imitating Christ and fixes attention on the death of Christ The Atoner. What Martin Luther. in his reformation, failed to realize is that even before Catholicism, Christianity had become degenerate at the hands of Paul. Paul made Christianity the religion of Paul, not of Christ Paul threw the Christianity of Christ away, completely turning it upside down. making it just the opposite of the original proclamation of Christ"

The brilliant theologian Ernest Renan, in his book Saint Paul, wrote: "True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock. the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology."

Albert Schweitzer, winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, has been called "one of the greatest Christians of his time." He was a philosopher, physician, musician, clergyman, missionary, and theologian. In his The Quest for the Historical Jesus and his Mysticism of Paul he writes: "Paul....did not desire to know Christ....Paul shows us with what complete indifference the earthly life of Jesus was regarded....What is the significance for our faith and for our religious life, the fact that the Gospel of Paul is different from the Gospel of Jesus?....The attitude which Paul himself takes up towards the Gospel of Jesus is that he does not repeat it in the words of Jesus, and does not appeal to its authority....The fateful thing is that the Greek, the Catholic, and the Protestant theologies all contain the Gospel of Paul in a form which does not continue the Gospel of Jesus, but displaces it."

William Wrede, in his excellent book Paul, informs us: "The oblivious contradictions in the three accounts given by Paul in regard to his conversion are enough to arouse distrust....The moral majesty of Jesus, his purity and piety, his ministry among his people, his manner as a prophet, the whole concrete ethical-religious content of his earthly life, signifies for Paul's Christology nothing whatever....The name 'disciple of Jesus' has little applicability to Paul....Jesus or Paul: this alternative characterizes, at least in part, the religious and theological warfare of the present day"

Rudolf Bultman, one of the most respected theologians of this century, wrote in his Significance of the Historical Jesus for the Theology of Paul: "It is most obvious that Paul does not appeal to the words of the Lord in support of his....views. when the essentially Pauline conceptions are considered, it is clear that Paul is not dependent on Jesus. Jesus' teaching is -- to all intents and purposes -- irrelevant for Paul."

Walter Bauer, another eminent theologian, wrote in his Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity: "If one may be allowed to speak rather pointedly the Apostle Paul was the only Arch-Heretic known to the apostolic age."

George Bernard Shaw, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925; in his Androcles and the Lion, we read: "There is not one word of Pauline Christianity in the characteristic utterances of Jesus....There has really never been a more monstrous imposition perpetrated than the imposition of Paul's soul upon the soul of Jesus....It is now easy to understand how the Christianity of Jesus....was suppressed by the police and the Church, while Paulinism overran the whole western civilized world, which was at that time the Roman Empire, and was adopted by it as its official faith."

Will Durant; in his Caesar and Christ, he wrote: "Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ....Through these interpretations Paul could neglect the actual life and sayings of Jesus, which he had not directly known....Paul replaced conduct with creed as the test of virtue. It was a tragic change."

Martin Buber, the most respected Jewish philosopher of this century, wrote in Two Types of Faith: "The Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount is completely opposed to Paul"

In one of the best books on early Christianity, Those Incredible Christians, Dr. High Schonfield reports: "It was not only the teaching and activities of Paul which made him obnoxious to the Christian leaders: but their awareness that he set his revelations above their authority and claimed an intimacy with the mind of Jesus, greater than that of those who had companied with him on earth and had been chosen by him....It was an abomination, especially as his ideas were so contrary to what they knew of Jesus, that he should pose as the embodiment of the Messiah 's will....Paul was seen as the demon-driven enemy of the Messiah....For the legitimate Church, Paul was a dangerous and disruptive influence, bent on enlisting a large following among the Gentiles in order to provide himself with a numerical superiority with the support of which he could set at defiance the Elders at Jerusalem. Paul had been the enemy from the beginning. and because he failed in his former open hostility he had craftily insinuated himself into the fold to destroy it from within."

It is important to understand the relationship between the teachings of Jesus, and the theology that has been created from the perspective of the Epistles of the Apostle Paul -- a man who never met Jesus in his lifetime. Under the heading of Jesus and Paul, the Encyclopedia Britannica writes: “In calling Paulinism 'Christocentric', one raises the question as to its relation to the Gospel proclaimed by Jesus... how far he unconsciously modified the Gospel by making Christ its subject matter rather than its revealer.... Paul... put all into so fresh a perspective as to change the relative emphasis on points central to the teaching of Jesus, and so alter its spirit. A school of writers, by no means unappreciative of Paul as they understand him, of whom W. Wrede may be taken as example, answer that Paul so changed Christianity as to become its 'second founder' - the real founder of ecclesiastical Christianity as distinct from the Christianity of Jesus. They say, 'either Jesus or Paul' it cannot be both at once’”.

		No Jew Has Ever Read The Law/Torah: The Jewish world today is in spiritual turmoil. Only a very small majority of Jews are Torah Observant. The majority of Reformed and Conservative Jews live as non-Jews -- neither observing the Sabbath or keeping the tenets of the written Law. Many Jews consider themselves Atheists. A massive number of Jews are daily being converted to Messianic Judaism -- a Christian based doctrinal system which has cloaked itself in a Jewish facade in order to convert Jews to Christianity. Others call themselves Nazarene Jews or Ebionites, but because they have been spiritually disenfranchised, they remain counterfeit with respect to the names and terms they espouse. And while there are the very few enlightened Jews (Spiritual Israelites) who know the truth, the Jewish, Christian and Muslim world remains ignorant as to the Truth that is only known by these very few.
		The Spiritual Law/Torah: Once understood, Paul taught a parable doctrine with respect to the Law as was embraced by the Ebionites. The problem is that modern Jews remain in bondage to the written word, while Christians who fail to comprehend the true meaning of the Law, dwell in lawless abandonment that makes them apostates to the Kingdom of God.
		The Law is Spiritual! Yeshua commanded his disciples to Observe and Fulfill the Law/Torah. Not in the ritualistic manner of the Jews, but in a Spiritual manner by turning the Torah within them in the endeavor to open the Inner Narrow Door to the Kingdom. By doing this, Yeshua became the Lord's Anointed (Messiah/Christ), and One with that Principle known as the Indwelling Son of God.

The Gnostic Paul: The above authors and scholars are correct! Because many of the converts failed to comprehend the essence of a Spiritual Church vs a secularized institutionalized Church, and their misinterpretation of Paul eventually led to the destruction of the teachings of TheWay. Faith to the Apostle Paul meant something entirely different than it did to Martin Luther and the modern believer today. Until we begin to understand faith from the more enlightened Spiritual/Gnostic perception of Paul, our modern religious experience will not bring about the results we envision -- and will in fact lead to our own spiritual destruction.

When Prof. John Allegro was quoted as saying that what has been revealed in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is a great amount of overwhelming evidence that “...may upset a great many basic teachings of the Christian Church. This in turn would greatly upset many Christian Theologians and believers. The heart of the matter is, in fact, the source and originality of Christian doctrine” (August 1966 issue of Harpers Magazine); what he was in fact stating is that, everything that we now know about Christian beginnings demonstrate that the Essene/Ebionites were not the heretics, as they were falsely portrayed by the later Gentile church, but were in fact the body of genuine believers that held fast to the authentic teachings of Yeshua/Jesus and the New Covenant.

The Counterfeit Structure of Modern Christianity

The profound long-suspected truth about Christianity became an indisputable fact when Dead Sea Scroll expert and biblical scholar A. Powell Davies expressed the immortal words when he said: “Biblical scholars were not disturbed by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed to have been” (quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls). Worse yet, Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls further raised the question as to what difference it makes if “Jesus... had been trained in the discipline and imbued with the thought of a certain Jewish sect, and that he had learned from it the role that he afterwards lived...” (The Scrolls From The Dead Sea). To the uninformed and unknowing believer, it made all the difference in the world!

At about the same time the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in a cave, a library of early Christian scriptures was uncovered at Nag Hammaddi in upper Egypt. Because of the nature of these writings, our scholars believe that these scriptures belonged to a sect of Gnostic Christians. Yet, the understanding that was engendered from the study of these writings was profound, even from a purely historical perspective. What they learned from the study of these writings again confirmed that the faithful flock had once again for a very long time believed a lie with respect to the first Gentile Christians -- a lie that again had been published by the Church of Constantine. In the words of Prof. Elaine Pagles in her book, The Gnostic Gospels, the condemnation of the early Gnostic Christians by the Roman Church had “political implications”. What she said was that the denunciation of the Gnostic Christians was “crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as heresy; ideas which implicitly support it become orthodox”. What this meant was that what is today considered traditional Christian doctrine, was formed in the fourth century for purely political reasons in order to support the Church that the Roman Emperor Constantine authored and founded.

Proof of just how far the Christian Church has deviated from its original spiritual path known as TheWay, is seen in the fact that throughout most of the Christian world today the words mysticism and gnosticism are words more appropriately used to describe heresy and heretics -- and yet, in the words of Dead Sea Scroll expert Prof. John Allegro in is book, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity, he writes: “It is a fact that the Qumran Library has profoundly affected the study of the Johannine writings and many longheld conceptions have had to be radically revised. No longer can John be regarded as the most Hellenistic of the Evangelists; his gnosticism, and the whole framework of his thought is seen now to spring directly from a Jewish sectarianism rooted in Palestinian soil, and his material recognized as founded in the earliest layers of Gospel traditions.” What these words mean is that such common phrases as faith, belief, born again, and even the manner in which Christians worship, must be radically altered and turned back onto the original course that Yeshua/Jesus ordained, in order for the modern believers to even be considered followers, and inherit the promise of Eternal Life.

The Teachings of TheWay

The teachings of Yeshua/Jesus which are known as TheWay was a purely spiritual religion -- practiced by a purely spiritual people known and Essenes, Nazirenes and Ebionites. These sacred teachings became impure when placed in the hands of the Gentiles, and totally corrupted under Constantine and Pagan Rome.

As Essene/Ebionites who live in accordance with the Vow of the Nazirenes, we know that it is sinful and turned out of TheWay to argue over manmade doctrines and carnal concepts of the meaning of the scriptures. As disciples of the Vow of the Nazirene, we seek Total and Absolute Oneness with the Lord in the manner that Yeshua/Jesus taught, and the whole focus of our religion is to learn what we must do in our lives to bring this Intimate Union with our Creator/God about. As the Prodigal Sons and Daughters of our Heavenly Father, we seek to release ourselves from the carnal and elemental limitations of this world, and walk in TheWay on our return journey back to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination that we emerged from in the beginning.

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	The Nazirene HomePage: The original spiritual teachings of Yeshua/Jesus as practiced by the people of The Way who where known historically as the Essenes, Ebionites, and Nazirenes. The teachings of The Way are Spiritual -- and provide a means to open the "strait gate" into the Kingdom while still physically alive in the body/vessel.
	The Messianic Nazirene Disciple of TheWay: While many teach that believers are saved by faith, the journey of the disciple of Yeshua is one of absolute dedication to The Way. The disciple who becomes a brother to Yeshua must live as he lived, and become a Nazirene who is consecrated and wholly set apart as they walk the Narrow Way, enter into the Kingdom through the Strait Gate, and learn directly from the L-rd -- the One Rabbi and Teacher of the Mysteries of G-d.
	TheWay of the Nazirene Rings HomePage: This is the Ring Home page of TheWay of the Nazirene. It will provide you with a listing of all the Nazirene Rings, and a brief description of the importance of walking in The Way and entering the Kingdom of God before physical death occurs. Come visit and learn the essence of the teachings of Jesus/Yeshua that were lost by the institutionalized church.
	The Long Island Mystic and Nazirene Disciple of TheWay: The Organizational HomePage of The Nazirene -- the Long Island Mystic, Evangelical Minister, and Prophet of TheWay -- who God bestowed upon him the gift of the recall of his previous life as a Disciple of Messiah/Christ -- and thus has re-entered this world at the present time in order to restore the Spiritual Essence and Teachings of his Master, Yeshua/Jesus. The Kingdom is within! And we must sojourn the narrow path of TheWay, enter the "strait gate" to the Inner Spiritual Temple, while still alive in the physical body. Thus, modern Christians have misunderstood the words of Yeshua -- he never said that we must physically die to enter the Edenic Kingdom of Origination -- but rather, we must die to the culture, mindset and ways of this world in order to enter the Kingdom!
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*	Allan Cronshaw, The Long Island Mystic

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