A Brief History of Christianity before Jesus Christ

ca gemal of Syria memorial Notes from the Damascus Document 1. The scroll opens by pointing let come on that during the time before the exile to Babylon when infidelity was prevalent, causing God to bring round his wrath upon the state. 2. Then there came cardinal years in which a final stage of the people knew their own guilt and move to find a way to the travel guidebook of piece-handedness, until God provided them with a Teacher of obligation who revealight-emitting diode the leave behind of God. 3.The instructor of righteousness was con cardinald by the Man of Mockery who brought ab bulge out(predicate) persecution to the theme led whatsoever of them into both sorts of unrighteous acts and sinfulness. The Man of Mockery led some of the people to sin through with(predicate) the defilement of the temple and causing the people to wonder in a inaccessible wildernessabolishing the ways of righteousness 4. The teacher of righteousness was passed away at some poin t and the source pointed out that the concomitant marked the beginning of the end of all(a)(prenominal) the fighters who deserted to the Liar.The writer also pointed out that period lasted about forty years. It seems as though the writer is saying that go through away of the teacher of righteousness (perhaps killed) by the Man of Mockery, was began the forty year languish war which ended all wars. 5. The righteous members of the throng became the the Separatists when they left the Holy urban center. 6. The writer of the document foretells the coming of two Messiahs out to the House of Aaron and Israel. Perhaps this may brook been a reference to the John the Baptist (House of Aaron) and to deliverer the Christ (House of Israel).The exception to this theory is that technically Jesus was from the House of Judah, but collectively he Judah was Israels son, hence, the house of Israel would suffice. 7. The writer of the document explains the administrative hierarchy for members o f the covenant. The peerless above all was the superintendent of the assembly. The document instructs that the Overseer shall teach the groups the ordinances of God and arrest decisions as to who can join the group and determine the rank that each will collect. The Overseer shall be from thirty to liter years old and will have final say on all the groups activities. The Overseer was the last authority that settled disputes between members. 8. The Document also stated that congregation shall be divided into groups of ten and every group of ten members required a priest that rules the group of ten. each(prenominal) group of ten was to be registered by name and the inaugural one to be enrolled was the priest followed by the Levites and then came the regular Israelites with the proselytes being the last. The corresponding order followed when members were settled during meals and assembly meetings. Each of the members was assigned a rank. 9.From here the documents provides a lo ng succession of rules that governed the members including keeping the Sabbath (even a restriction from assisting an animal to give stand or pull it out of pit if the animal falls on the Sabbath) prohibitions against dormancy with a woman in the City of the Sanctuary rules for bathing restrictions against selling of clean animals or birds to gentiles in case they would affirm them in sacrifices rules to members with children that require them to force their children to scoot an oath to the covenant upon the age of registration directives to the members to contribute two days of every months incomes to the poor and destitute rules demanding all new members to study for a full year under the Overseer before partial membership if grant and rules prohibiting any membership for lunatics, the maimed, madmen, the deaf, the blind, simpletons, the lame, and the underage.