Convergent Friends Community cannot say they are reviving Primitive Christianity
crunch
I find their website interesting in its own right.
Do check it out.
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However, we cannot turn back the clock. I have
already shown on SRQ that the First Christians
were derived from the Essenes. Their political
circumstances heavily influenced their theology.
They were not mainstream Jewish - instead, they
had a tight hierarchy and valued celibacy. They
were harshly legalistic. They led the life of
Pythagoras according to Josephus. They held
property in common. Their apocalyptic timetable
did not materialize. They were wrong to insist
so heavily that God put order into the universe.
Their spirit was dedicated to religion but we cannot
go back to them.
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David Christainsen
Sir David
> http://www.quakerquaker.org/
Just a ploy, your real subject is ...
> I have already shown on SRQ that the First Christians
> were derived from the Essenes.
No you haven't. All you've done is to flog your hobbyhorse.
crunch
> On Nov 18, 8:53 pm, Crunchy <pchristain...@yahoo.com> defecated:
>
> >http://www.quakerquaker.org/
>
> Just a ploy, your real subject is ...
Not a ploy at all. You are an aggressive distorter.
I think people see thru you; you are unreliable.
> > I have already shown on SRQ that the First Christians
> > were derived from the Essenes.
>
> No you haven't. All you've done is to flog your hobbyhorse.
There is plenty in the professional literature to support my
position.
David Christainsen
(<<Kelly>>)
> I think people see thru you; you are unreliable.
Projecting.
> There is plenty in the professional literature to support my
> position.
You don't have a "position", you just have hobbyhorses.