More on the Ebionites

In a recent post of mine I wondered whether the Ebionites disappeared. Didn't have to worry about that, though, since after a good while of clicking around I was able to find some of the users I was looking for, and also find other users who would fit the description of an Ebionite. I have not found anyone who openly identifies as Ebionite. What I had to do to find people to classify as Ebionite was look for people who identify themselves as followers of YHWH and Yeshua AND who condemn Paul.

The impression that I get from this loose group I have overviewed is that contemporary non-trinitarian Judaic Christianity (they don't call themselves Christian, but I have to use that word anyway) is basically foaming-at-the-mouth evangelical fundamentalism minus Paul's epistles. Whether these users should be classified in the same group as the operators of this website, who openly do identify as Ebionite, can be a matter of debate. Ebionite.org doesn't place a whole lot of emphasis on the end times, while these users do. Maybe the owners of ebionite.org do believe in the end times, and share beliefs about the New World Order and what not, but just decline to advertise it on the website. I should note that the "original" Ebionites probably did have apocalyptic beliefs.

If I were to classify these users' political beliefs, I would call them paleoconservatives of the Alex Jones variety (though I actually don't know where these users stand on Zionism, which paleoconservatives typically virulently oppose). This isn't because they themselves identify as paleoconservatives; I just notice that there's a whole lot of overlap between them and paleoconservatives, especially beliefs about all the world's major political institutions being dominated by a very small group of economic elites, beliefs about apocalyptic political and economic turbulence occuring in the very near future, efforts to prepare for such turbulence, conspiracy theories, and hidden knowledge.

The following is a short list of Youtube users who I would call Ebionite or Ebionite-isch. This isn't all of them; there are definitely more. Maybe many more. And there might be many Ebionites who are quite differnt from these users.

http://www.youtube.com/user/LiveForGodsKingdom Ebionite End-Timer, survivalist, and bi-polar patient who stopped taking his meds during his conversion.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kalamata777

http://www.youtube.com/user/WitnessOfYHWH

http://www.youtube.com/user/wayisnarrow Also an End-Timer.

http://www.youtube.com/user/HisWordsAreTruth

http://www.youtube.com/user/YoelBenYsryael Also anti-NWO

http://www.youtube.com/user/bendixen12 Ebionite worship music

http://www.youtube.com/user/fyrstikken I have no idea if this is an actual Ebionite, but he/she does deny Paul.

Also of interest:
http://www.youtube.com/user/yshuaknesset http://www.congregationisrael.net/ Like the Nation of Islam, but Ebionite-isch