docphin5
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(Please note that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the greatest archaeological discovery in the history of nation Israel so I am placing this OP in the Archaeology thread.)
Based on Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo's tractates, Paul's epistles, Nag Hammadi, and Trismegistic literature, it is readily apparent that the Gospel Jesus and John the Baptist are Jewish-Christian cyphers for Paul and the Teacher of Righteousness, respectively. I have touched on it in other posts but I think people have a hard time seeing it. Therefore, I put this graph together to help demonstrate how the GoMark evangelist came up with his story of Jesus and John the Baptist.
The graph below places key events and people in relation to each other for the right perspective. I think many times when we talk about historical events they tend to get lumped together as if they all happened at one time. We smash history together but that doesn't really represent what happened. Ideas evolved over time and at a later time the evangelists wrote a story smashing all the events together into a single story. Hundred of years later readers take the smashed story literally rather than realize it is the cliff notes version of what actually happened.
The key points based on ACTUAL evidence and reason.
1) 100 BC: The Teacher of Righteousness (TOR) led a group of Jewish-Christians 100 years before the beginning of our era. He called his group "the Way" ("Oessnes" is what others called them, possibly meaning "doers of the Law") and he predicted two messianic figures IN THE FUTURE. One of those Messianic figures, namely, Yeshua (English= Joshua or Jesus) would present himself in approximately 50 Jubilee years. Water baptism was used to identify the coming Messianic figure, hence, the forerunner and baptizer of the coming Messiah. This is all in the Dead Sea Scrolls folks, --plain as Day!
2) 50 CE: Paul and James were self proclaimed leaders of the "Party of Christ". Paul led the party outside of Jerusalem and James led the party inside Palestine. They disagreed on matters of circumcision, Sabbath, Temple rituals, but on everything else they agreed. It led to some bitter disputes and division within the Essene community, especially, inside Jerusalem where Jewish life was centered around the Jewish Temple still standing.
3) 100 CE: Jewish Christians write GoMark to canonize the writings of the TOR and Paul as the leaders of the "Party of Christ". James, Peter, John, et. al., are presumably subordinate to Paul/inner Jesus in authority (as characterized in GoMark) because Temple rituals, circumcision, and Sabbath observance don't seem to matter anymore (the Jewish Temple no longer exists), just as Paul tried to tell everyone: it is what is on the inside that matters. Therefore, Jewish Christians conclude that the inner Jesus of Paul is the "true prophet". Later, Jewish Christians will compose "Acts of the Apostles" to heal the divide between Paul and James, Peter, and John, to wash over their differences as minor, although, in life, Paul and James were bitter opponents for the leadership of the "party of Christ".
Based on Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo's tractates, Paul's epistles, Nag Hammadi, and Trismegistic literature, it is readily apparent that the Gospel Jesus and John the Baptist are Jewish-Christian cyphers for Paul and the Teacher of Righteousness, respectively. I have touched on it in other posts but I think people have a hard time seeing it. Therefore, I put this graph together to help demonstrate how the GoMark evangelist came up with his story of Jesus and John the Baptist.
The graph below places key events and people in relation to each other for the right perspective. I think many times when we talk about historical events they tend to get lumped together as if they all happened at one time. We smash history together but that doesn't really represent what happened. Ideas evolved over time and at a later time the evangelists wrote a story smashing all the events together into a single story. Hundred of years later readers take the smashed story literally rather than realize it is the cliff notes version of what actually happened.
100 CE | Gospel of Mark smashes actual history of two Messianic figures (TOR and Paul) into a single story. Predicts a third Messianic figure to come. | |||||
50 CE | Paul = inner "Anointed Jesus" allegorizing the Law and writing extensively of celestial Messiah | |||||
0 CE | Philo of Alexandria allegorizing the Law writing extensively about the "virgin birth" of the virtuous soul and the divine Logos. | |||||
50 BC | King Herod appointed by Rome | |||||
100 BC | Teacher of Righteousness = "John the Baptist", who allegorizes the Law, baptizes fellow Jews into "new Covenant", martyred at Qumran by Pharisees | |||||
150 BC | Essenes allegorizing the Law, synthesizing many apocryphal writings: Book of Jubilees, Enoch literature, Twelve patriarchs, Jasher, etc. | |||||
200 BC | 150 BC | 100 BC | 50 BC | 0 CE | 50 CE | 100 CE |
The key points based on ACTUAL evidence and reason.
1) 100 BC: The Teacher of Righteousness (TOR) led a group of Jewish-Christians 100 years before the beginning of our era. He called his group "the Way" ("Oessnes" is what others called them, possibly meaning "doers of the Law") and he predicted two messianic figures IN THE FUTURE. One of those Messianic figures, namely, Yeshua (English= Joshua or Jesus) would present himself in approximately 50 Jubilee years. Water baptism was used to identify the coming Messianic figure, hence, the forerunner and baptizer of the coming Messiah. This is all in the Dead Sea Scrolls folks, --plain as Day!
2) 50 CE: Paul and James were self proclaimed leaders of the "Party of Christ". Paul led the party outside of Jerusalem and James led the party inside Palestine. They disagreed on matters of circumcision, Sabbath, Temple rituals, but on everything else they agreed. It led to some bitter disputes and division within the Essene community, especially, inside Jerusalem where Jewish life was centered around the Jewish Temple still standing.
3) 100 CE: Jewish Christians write GoMark to canonize the writings of the TOR and Paul as the leaders of the "Party of Christ". James, Peter, John, et. al., are presumably subordinate to Paul/inner Jesus in authority (as characterized in GoMark) because Temple rituals, circumcision, and Sabbath observance don't seem to matter anymore (the Jewish Temple no longer exists), just as Paul tried to tell everyone: it is what is on the inside that matters. Therefore, Jewish Christians conclude that the inner Jesus of Paul is the "true prophet". Later, Jewish Christians will compose "Acts of the Apostles" to heal the divide between Paul and James, Peter, and John, to wash over their differences as minor, although, in life, Paul and James were bitter opponents for the leadership of the "party of Christ".
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