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| From: (Anonymous) |
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January 16th, 2008 05:55 am (UTC)
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I recognize two types of Christianity. On being Roman (Mithra) Christianity, the other is Jewish Christianity, which is what Jesus would have been. Jewish Christians would not call themselves Christians. The word Christian coems from the Greek and Roman world. Jewish Christian sects would have included earlier followers of Jesus , such as the Ebionites, Nazarenes, Notzrim, Elcesaites (an Ebionite sub-group) and the Nazoraean. (offshoot of Nazarenes) All of these groups have there own set of writings about Jesus (or Yeshua as the Hebrew/Aramaic would call him) and did not call themselves Christians. They all share similarities with the other Essene Jews There are many branches of Roman Christianity (including but probably not limited to Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Baptist, Mormon and Evangelical)
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| From: (Anonymous) |
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January 27th, 2008 06:34 am (UTC)
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Eastern Orthodoxy is Jewish Christianity. The origins of the Eastern Orthodox are with the Temple cult of Jerusalem, while modern Judaism has its origins in the Pharisee sect of Babylonian diaspora origin. The early Jewish Christians were divided between Hellenic Jews and their Gentile converts, and Semitic-speaking Jews. The latter group had a division over inclusion of the Gentile converts by the Hellenic Jewish Christians. The group claiming exclusivity did not survive beyond the fourth century after the destruction of Jerusalem. The other (Orthodox) group continued: the Hellenic Jews becoming the 'Greek' (Roum/Rum or 'Roman') tradition of Christianity with its centers in Antioch, Alexandria, Rome and later Constantinople, and the Semitic tradition with its centers in Edessa, Seleucia-Ctesiphon, and other areas that continued with the Aramaic language. The Aramaic tongue spoken by Jewish Christians later came to be called Syriac, though the Christians of Malloula in Syria still speak Palestinian Christian Aramaic (similar to Judeo-Aramaic, spoken by Jewish people of local Palestinian origin.) While most of the Jewish Christians became intermarried with their Christian converts of Gentile origin, some groups of Jewish Christians maintained their separate identity with Eastern Orthodoxy. This is particularly true with the separated [i]parasynagogus[/i] (insubordinate to their Patriarchs) called variously 'Oriental' or 'Non-Chalcedonian' Orthodox. These relict populations are most visibly amongst the Ethiopian Orthodox, and in the Knanaya branch of the Malankara Syriac Mar Thomas Orthodox Christians of Kerala, India. Otherwise, various clans or villages in the Antiochian Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Syriac Orthodox or Syrian Catholic traditions that remember and maintain their origins with those who followed the preaching of Jesus Christ and/or his disciples. More recently, large numbers of people of Jewish origin (roots in the Pharisee branch of old Israel, rather than the Temple branch) have become Eastern Orthodox - especially in Russia and Israel (where the latter are called the Rum Orthodox Ivri - Roman Orthodox Hebrews.)
In Western Christianity there was a memory of origins with the Jewish Christians, especially in Rome, Southern Gaul, Northern Spain, and Britain. The separation of the Western part of the Church from the East only obscured that identity, especially due to the barbarian takeover of Western Christianity and the eventual Western obsession with pre-Christian Latin and Hellenic paganism (the Enlightenment, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation.)
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