From what we know of that period, before the council of Nicea, Christianity was pretty fragmented. Due to a lack of decent Internet access, one community believed in a Jesus that was different from the next. Some believed he was Divine, and some held him like Hercules, but a more tragic figure. It would be later that all of these would be brought together to accept a single story, weeding out the bad bits here and there.
This Ebionite movement today is one screwed up cult. They are trying to recreate something, like the Callifornia "Karites", who are non-Jews or Reform Jews who hate the term "reform", so they try to recreate something that have little knowledge about. They appear to sort of mixing up a few dogmas and making a bizarre stew. Trying to give Jesis a Jewish name, and calling his mother "Maria" is a tad weird. It appears to be a competing "Noahide" movement that the Chabad group tossed together. Although with the Ebionites, you don't get to be controlled by a seperate wacky cult, you get to be part of your own wacky cult!
This Ebionite movement today is one screwed up cult. They are trying to recreate something, like the Callifornia "Karites", who are non-Jews or Reform Jews who hate the term "reform", so they try to recreate something that have little knowledge about. They appear to sort of mixing up a few dogmas and making a bizarre stew. Trying to give Jesis a Jewish name, and calling his mother "Maria" is a tad weird. It appears to be a competing "Noahide" movement that the Chabad group tossed together. Although with the Ebionites, you don't get to be controlled by a seperate wacky cult, you get to be part of your own wacky cult!
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
