(July 5, 2016 at 3:00 pm)SteveII Wrote:(July 5, 2016 at 2:17 pm)pocaracas Wrote: How about if that "growing church" was just an evolution of the Essene cult?
How would you explain the content of Paul's letters to them?
I don't see how they contradict the messianic notion already present in the figure of the Teacher of Righteousness.
Nor how this small group was shunned by the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Nor how the main gathering (or town) of these people was precisely on the famous road to Damascus...