Who was

Jesus the Nazarene

(Jesus the son of Mary, the Nazarene
Yahoshua ben Mariam ha-nosri)

and what were his teachings?

What is a Nazarene?

There are some who say that Jesus was called Nazarene because he was from a tiny village called Nazareth; others that he founded a group called Nazarenes. Jesus could not have founded the sect because the term "Nazarene" was already old enough in Jesus' day that people understood its meaning when Jesus was said to be a Nazarene.

Rather than Nazarene meaning "a person from Nazareth", the village of Nazareth was given that name from its founding, (decades after Jesus' death), by Nazarenes that settled there after the destruction of Jerusalem.

The term Nazarene came into use about the time of the Hasmonean revolt, for members of a religious sect that dates back to the time of Isaiah.

Jesus was a leader in the Nazarene sect.

What are the core Nazarene doctrines?

We are to love the Lord our God with all our body, with all our life, and with all our resources; further, we are to love our neighbors as ourselves.

The Lord our God desires our willing obedience to his simple plan: no more, no less. There is no "sacrifice" or "offering" acceptable as a substitute for obedience.

The Lord our God FORBIDS idols of any kind; an idol is any object held to have divine attributes.. (a coin is an image but not an idol since it has no "divinity") When oaths are taken on a "holy" book, the book becomes a forbidden idol. "The Idols of Judah", mentioned often, were not statues of the Canaanite Baals, but rather objects of veneration held to have divine attributes.. The Ark of the Covenant, the bronze snake made by Moses, and even the Temple on Zion

How are Nazarenes different from Pharisees or Sadducees?

Sadducees hold that the Torah, the five "books of Moses", are holy and divine, and endow them with political power and the right to judge men's souls.

The Pharisees add oral tradition to the "Holy word", claiming their own political rights and authority over souls.

Nazarenes deny the holy perfection of any book, and deny that the Lord our God authorized ANY person to usurp his place on the Mercy Seat.

How are the Nazarenes different from Christians?

Jesus and all his followers were Nazarenes. Christians have discarded Jesus' teachings to follow the teachings of Saul of Tarsus, a Benjamite Pharisee (Pharisees are not Nazarenes).

The list of Christian doctrines that disagree with Nazarene doctrines is quite long: We do not believe that the Lord our God lied to Ezekiel when he said that forgiveness of sin required true repentance, only;

the Christians prate on about 'no forgiveness without blood' , a teaching created by a priesthood that placed mutton on their supper table with 'blood sacrifice.'

Christians also teach that people can "inherit" sin or righteousness, in spite of Ezekiel being told by the Lord our God "All souls belong to me, the soul that dies in sin dies for his own sin. A son does not die for the father's sin, and the father does not die for the son's sin."

We do not believe Jesus was divine, or that Jesus died as an unneeded blood sacrifice.

We do not believe that the Lord our God gave us a Law to live that could not be followed, The Lord our God is NOT A DECEIVER.

The Lord our God did not transfer the priesthood to Rome as a reward for their human blood sacrifices, whatever the Roman Vatican may claim.

We believe that when Jesus said "I am the Way, Follow me", he meant that we should always live our lives by his example.

Christians claim holy perfection for their entire book, including the collection of old songs in the Psalms, the part where Jesus said he did not come to make any change in the Law of God, and the part where Saul of Tarsus blithely proclaims Jesus a liar who did change the Law of God. We, of course, do not worship any book as divinely perfect.

Does that make Nazarenes Jews?

The Priests in Anathoth and Jerusalem tried to kill Jeremiah for teaching Nazarene doctrines,

and proclaiming their new Torah Scroll a counterfeit.

While we follow a tradition older than Orthodox Judaism, the Orthodox rabbis have proclaimed us heretics and prayed to the Lord to curse us.. the only "Nazarene" that the Orthodox can tolerate is a bogus teacher claiming that Nazarene came from "Netzer" instead of "Nosri" We are "the ones who Observe the True Torah", and not a secret society of royal lineage.

Who was the last and greatest prophet?

Last? the Lord our God created time, he is not a servant to time, he sends a people a prophet when they need one; There cannot be a "last" prophet as long as time itself exists. As to the greatest, that is a matter of perspective and opinion; contenders on the list must include Moses, Jesus, Muhammad (sent to the Arabs, and misused by their clerics as Jesus is by the Christians), Isaiah ben Amoz, Jeremiah and Ezekiel of course.. don't forget Amos and Hosea. In twentieth century America a great movement toward Justice showed that the Lord our God can use even a Christian preacher as his prophet, so include Martin Luther King in the list.

Which is it, Jesus or Yahoshua?

It's not important. The Lord our God knows our hearts and minds. Yahoshua ben Mariam was a prophet, teaching us by his example, and how we say his name is not going to save us or damn us, unless we believe him to be devine, in which case whatever we consider his name becomes "the name of God" in the commandment against "using the name in vain." Of course, considering him devine and according him worship is already a violation of the Commandment.

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