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Originally Posted by magnetaress
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I'm going to start a devotional thread tomorrow and pray.
Time is fluid.
Jesus is but a guide post. The more things change the more they remain the same. What once was will come again, anew.
I may not indeed be Christian or a Knight Templer. But I do see the wisdom in the past and also that path before us.
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On the Road to Damascus occured while Saul was otw to the caves of Qumran where the Ebionites exodused to, when Mt. Carmel was no longer safe.
The head of the Ebionite congregation was James, Jesus' brother, with a congregation made up of primarily Essenian converts (I use that word loosely since the Essenian themselves were Messianic preppers, andessentially all of them accepted Christ's Messianic fulfilment as they were the ones who raised him and trained him in their spiritual healing arts)
When the bible says "The Poor", as in
Galatians 2:10
"All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along."
What it means is Remember the Ebionite's way, because Ebionite in Aramaic literally means "the poor" and it is the title of James' Church.
Unfortunately, circa 300ad their adoptionist perspective of the nature of Christ, had them branded as heretics after the Nicene Council declared orthodoxy, and the only accepted form of Christianity under Rome, to be Trinitarian Doctrine, aka the theory of Hypostatic Union, and they were subsequently exterminated to extinction in the century to follow.
The reason why they were called the poor is because they lived a life of deep spiritual devotion to the law of the Torah, not merely as a system of legalism, but as a way of spiritual life (spirit of the law vs letter of the law). Most Essenians/Ebionites were living to the age of 120 because they were vegetarians per Genesis 1:29, and entrance to their community required letting go of the concept of private property and gainful pursuits.
John the baptist is quoted by John of Patmos' as saying:
He must increase, while I must decrease.
John 3:30 CPDV
https://bible.com/bible/42/jhn.3.30.CPDV
What he is saying ego must decrease, for self to emerge.
On the road to Damascus did not occur while Saul was otw to Peter's group.