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death by beheading was fictitious. His doctrine of baptism<br />
was changed to became a symbolic action, <strong>and</strong> the deceivers<br />
used the name which the people had chosen for the presaged<br />
Prophet, the Saviour, (Joshua), <strong>and</strong> invented a different figure<br />
with the same name, who proclaimed a wholly different<br />
teaching <strong>and</strong> assumed a different identity, who drank wine,<br />
consumed meat, etc. He allegedly healed the sick through<br />
miracles <strong>and</strong> raised the dead <strong>and</strong> otherwise performed many<br />
wonders.<br />
The deceivers exchanged the concept of "virginity" with sexual<br />
abstinence (celibacy) <strong>and</strong> duped their followers using the<br />
words of figure of Paul concerning celibacy that they were<br />
capable of preserving sexual virginity, a goal that led to the<br />
perversion of the true meaning of virginity, causing a great<br />
deal of distress among priests <strong>and</strong> clergy, because those persons<br />
were compelled to consider their natural sexual desires,<br />
which they tried to suppress, as spiritual failure. The true<br />
meaning of virginity in the sense of the Essene Baptist, however,<br />
has nothing to do with the exclusion of sexuality between<br />
man <strong>and</strong> woman, which is a natural necessity <strong>and</strong><br />
corresponds to the divine call to "multiply,". It is the attainment<br />
of the original purity through rebirth <strong>and</strong> observance of<br />
the Divine Comm<strong>and</strong>ments, regardless of whether sexuality<br />
ever takes place.<br />
The forgers did not delay spreading the rumor that people<br />
cannot alter their evil nature, that this Jesus, the Son of God,<br />
had come to die for their sins. The Jews were vilified as<br />
those who caused his crucifixion. To prove this, the deceivers<br />
invented many scenarios in which the Jewish authorities<br />
plotted to take Jesus’ life. They also invented a Satan, <strong>and</strong> a<br />
hell in which those who do not accept the divine gift of grace<br />
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