Re: Screening out or buffering polemic

David wrote:
> On Apr 18, 8:24 pm, Rod <icom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> ...
>>    Yes, I wasn't aware that it is a quaker term, but i have also
>>    heard that the essenes used that same term, and I don't see the
>>    quakers claiming to be affiliated with essene ideals in any way
>>    presently known to us.
>> ...
> 
> Essenes used the term Sons of Light as did Jesus Christ.
> 
> Friends, or at least im****tant elements of them, claim to
> be Friends of Christ from John's Gospel.
> 
> The new revelations from Dr. Thiering make clear that
> the flesh and blood Jesus was once an Essene under
> the Zadokite priest John the Baptist but split from the
> Essenes at his baptism.
> 
> The harsh truth is that modern Quakers have no historical
> knowledge of Essene ideals in the first place.  IOW they
> know nothing.
> 
> My rather unique experience in the world was to reveal the
> essentials of Christian Origins in the Spirit over quite a
> few years during Quaker Wor****p and have it go in one
> ear and out the other for a group of 75 people or so.
> 
> What a letdown for the good name of Quakers and what
> they are supposed to stand for!  OTOH I suppose we can
> confine the blame to Wellesley Meeting and their lower
> morality.  Yet, let the dead bury the dead for now.

   Yes, but you need to let go of that. No good will come from
   brooding over things already said and done.


   As for the Essenes, the quickest way to turn me off of looking
   further into understanding quakers and their history is to
   demonstrate ties with christianity.


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> David Christainsen