@dpmartin,
The will of the flesh creates the pleasures of the flesh,
for the will of the Spirit to enjoy.
Matters of the heart.
which we all shall share.
Thanks for the reply.
Oh no,
thank you,
What spirit would that be, that you are referring to?
The spirit of life?,
from God?,
which we all shall share?,
within infinity?
Damned straight.
From what God, or maybe better said, the God of who or what?
The God of Truth,
The God of Righteousness,
The God of LOVE!
Now we are having a proper conversation,
One worthy of the Kingdom.
The Essene had to learn this as a discipline,
Here is definition of three brotherhoods of thought and reason.
Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes
By Mitchell G. Bard
Of the various factions that emerged under Hasmonean rule, three are of particular interest: the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes.
The Pharisees
The most important of the three were the Pharisees because they are the spiritual fathers of modern Judaism. Their main distinguishing characteristic was a belief in an Oral Law that God gave to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah. The Torah or Written Law was akin to the U.S. Constitution in the sense that it set down a series of laws that were open to interpretation. The Pharisees believed that God also gave Moses the knowledge of what these laws meant and how they should be applied. This oral tradition was codified and written down roughly three centuries later in what is known as the Talmud.
The Pharisees also maintained that an afterlife existed and that God punished the wicked and rewarded the righteous in the world to come. They also believed in a messiah who would herald an era of world peace.
Pharisees were in a sense blue-collar Jews who adhered to the tenets developed after the destruction of the Temple; that is, such things as individual prayer and assembly in synagogues.
The Sadducees
The Sadducees were elitists who wanted to maintain the priestly caste, but they were also liberal in their willingness to incorporate Hellenism into their lives, something the Pharisees opposed. The Sadducees rejected the idea of the Oral Law and insisted on a literal interpretation of the Written Law; consequently, they did not believe in an afterlife, since it is not mentioned in the Torah. The main focus of Sadducee life was rituals associated with the Temple.
The Sadducees disappeared around 70 A.D., after the destruction of the Second Temple (see below). None of the writings of the Sadducees survived, so the little we know about them comes from their Pharisaic opponents.
These two "parties" served in the Great Sanhedrin, a kind of Jewish Supreme Court made up of 71 members whose responsibility was to interpret civil and religious laws.
The Dead Sea Sect
A third faction, the Essenes, emerged out of disgust with the other two. This sect believed the others had corrupted the city and the Temple. They moved out of Jerusalem and lived a monastic life in the desert, adopting strict dietary laws and a commitment to celibacy.
The Essenes are particularly interesting to scholars because they are believed to be an offshoot of the group that lived in Qumran, near the Dead Sea. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd stumbled into a cave containing various ancient artifacts and jars containing manuscripts describing the beliefs of the sect and events of the time.
The most important documents, often only parchment fragments that had to be meticulously restored, were the earliest known copies of the Old Testament. The similarity of the substance of the material found in the scrolls to that in the modern scriptures has confirmed the authenticity of the Bible used today.
John the baptist was raised by the Essene.
I am the son of a father,
You may call me Dameon.
It means, Dame-on.
Or Damn for short.
The God of a,
Cross eyed,
4 eyed,
Flying,
Stupid Mother ******.
Son of a crazy son of a bitch.
With God as my father.
my laydee sick,
Do u know Mylaydee?
Let me youdal it to ya,
Myoldlaydee Hooooooo...?
She is the crown of creation,
At the heart of inspiration,
The reason we are.
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That's a funny word, Bish ops
