Ebionite Jewish Community
- Ebionite Jewish Community
The Ebionite Jewish Community is a new religious movement and Internet social network created in 1995 as the culmination of a quest for the Jewishness of the historical Jesus undertaken in 1985 by American teacher Shemayah Phillips. [Jesus Family Tomb: Early Christianity & The Ebionites 2007. [http://jesusfamilytomb.com/back_to_basics/early_christianity/ebionites.html] ] [Self Help Guide / Jesus Christ, 2006. [http://selfhelp-guide.com/heros4u/jesus_christ.htm] ] This philo-semitic community claims to be the legitimate revivalists of the authentic views and practices of early Ebionites, a sect of Jewish disciples of Jesus which existed from the 1st to the 5th century of the Common Era. [Historical and Scriptural (NT) references to the original Jesus movement and its Jewish nature. [http://www.half-jewish.org/israelite_christianity.shtml half-jewish.org/israelite_christianity] ]
The Ebionite Jewish Community promotes Yahwism, the recognition of Yeshua (Jesus) as a Jewish prophet (rather than as a Messiah as he is portrayed in Christian writing), and claims that Christianity is not a biblically-based religion. Ebionites actively campaign against missionary work done by Christian groups, and encourages a return to a Tanakh-reliant approach to Judaism among Messianic Jews, Hebrew Christians, Gentile Christians and others.
Modern Ebionites are neither gnostic nor dualist, but strictly monotheistic. Ebionites believe that monotheism disallows a belief in a "Satan" that competes with God. Modern Ebionitism emphasizes the social justice aspect of the Tanakh, and Yahwism as a socio-economic as well as a religious idea. They also reject membership for those involved in occupations deemed to be "exploitive."
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External links
* [http://ebionite.org/index.htm Ebionite Community]
* [http://www.ebionite.org/faq.htm Our Mission: A FAQ on Ebionite Beliefs]
* [http://www.ebionite.org/ebfaq.htm FAQ]
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