The Nazirene Gospel

Introduction to the Nazirene Gospel

Introduction to the Nazirene Gospel.

CHRISTIANS POSSESSED WITH OLD WINE SYNDROME: Jesus said: "And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is better’" (Luke 5:39 NIV). Thus, the problem -- i.e., Once the Emperor Constantine fixed the doctrines and manner of thinking of what came to be called the Christian Church -- reinvented the teachings of the New Covenant to make it compatible with the thinking and culture of Pagan Rome -- replaced spiritual disciplines intended to open the believer’s mind to the reality of the indwelling Word with rituals -- and recreated the religion of the New Covenant in the body and form of a quasi-secular institution -- change by way of the restoral of Truth and Light became impossible for the body of believers.

Introduction to the Nazirene Gospel Pt2

INTRODUCTION TO THE NAZIRENE GOSPEL Part II

THE TEACHINGS OF THE WAY

AND THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SOUL

In their elevated perception of Life and Creation, the disciples of The Way recognized that this world responds to the manner in which we live it. In the University of Life that God Created, this world reacts to our own personal needs. There are no accidents or random events that victimize us. Whatever events we experience is the direct result of something that we initiated in our own past. Our conditions under which we are born is directly related to what we have accomplished in our own previous lives. In the words of the Church Father Origen: "Every soul… comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life" (Origen, De Principiis). That we do not remember the events of the past that brought about our present circumstances of life, is our own fault. The knowledge to the answers to the test of life is given only to those who become active servants of the Master of The Way.

Introduction to the Nazirene Gospel Pt3

INTRODUCTION TO THE NAZIRENE GOSPEL

Part III

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND THE SEED

When Jesus warned that "The Way", is straight and narrow, what he cautioned his followers was that we cannot attempt to carry the great weight of the doctrines of this world along with us in our walk with the Lord. In the writings of the fifth century monk John Cassian, he often quotes the scriptures as he explored the idea of who is even worthy of being given the opportunity of Walking in The Way in the Imitation of Christ: "Wherefore, as Scripture says, 'when you go forth to serve the Lord stand in the fear of the Lord, and prepare your mind' not for repose or carelessness or delights, but for temptations and troubles. For 'through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.' For 'strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be which find it.' Consider therefore that you belong to the few and elect; and do not grow cold after the examples of the lukewarmness of many: but live as the few, that with the few you may be worthy of a place in the kingdom of God: for 'many are called, but few chosen', and it is a 'little flock to which it is the Father's good pleasure to give' an inheritance. You should therefore realize that it is no light sin for one who has made profession of perfection to follow after what is imperfect" (Church Fathers, Nicene & Post-Nicene, Vol. 11, Page 467).