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[apilgrimpassingby]

But still, what actually is "rigorism"?

My best guess: Rigorism is the rejection of the decisions made by a given church's hierarchs in favour of an apparently or actually more conservative option (a lot of these groups have "old" or "ancient" in their names), manifesting as contempt towards the hierarchs in question or outright splitting from them. I'm not sure if this is an essential element, but they usually revolve around issues of practice that seem laughably trivial to outsiders; you'll see calendars pop up quite a bit here. Examples, with the issue they split over in brackets, include:

The Essenes in Second Temple Judaism (asceticism, the use of the Enochic calendar and the legitimacy of the Second Temple)

The Donatists and Novatians in Patristic Christianity (readmission of repentant apostates)

Old Calendarists in Greek Orthodoxy (the Gregorian or Julian year for the calendar)

Old Believers in Russian Orthodoxy (icon styles and how to make the sign of the cross)

The Ancient Church of the East in the Church of the East (the Gregorian or Julian year for the calendar)

The Old Catholic Church and Sedevacantism in Roman Catholicism (papal infallibility and the liturgical reforms of Vatican II respectively)

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Mormonism (polygamy and the Adam-God doctrine)

Having made this list, I think there's an additional crucial trait unifying them: they all come from groups that in some fashion or another claim to be the True Church, and that's what gives them their unique character - they insist that they, a small schismatic group, are the only true Christians.

[santmat]

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[theradicalscholar]

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[paulthepoke]

Purim and the marking of time...

[vickihinze]

A Cleansing Stream

https://christians-read.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/img_2447.jpg In Judaism, a mikveh (or sometimes mikvah) is a ritual bath for purification and cleansing to prepare worshippers to enter the temple. The name means “collection of water.” The water must come from a natural source such as a lake, river, lake, ocean, or rain, and must be unmoving, not flowing. The Mishna, the Jewish code of law,…

[bluecollarbiblicalscholar]

Was Jesus a Pharisee?

The Pharisees were really more of a political party than they were a separate sect. However, they appealed to very religious aspects of life and the theology of the people in that they emphasized that the people remain Jewish in the midst of the secular culture of that day. They developed elaborate rules and laws for the Jews to remain ritually pure, but they also thought about the latest…

[knoxvillerose-blog]

Dead Sea Scrolls, Teacher of Righteousness = Jesus? Rare Book

This is a very rare book on Dead Sea Scrolls & the 'Teacher of Righteousness references compared to Jesus One & the same?

One of the theories:

Michael O. Wise posits that the Teacher of Righteousness was the "first messiah", a figure predating Jesus by roughly 100 years. This figure, who Wise believes was named Judah, rose to prominence during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus, and had been a priest and confidant to the king. However, he became dissatisfied with the religious sects in Jerusalem and, in reaction, founded a "crisis cult". 

[santmat]

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[byfaithmedia]

At Qumran, they discovered 2,000 year old ancient copies of the Old Testament, proving that the scripture we read today are the same as the ones they read in the times of Jesus.

[kramlabs]

Did the historical “Jesus” ever claim to be God?

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[andrewpcannon]

Jesus as Prophet and The Personal Salvation Debate Among Jews in the First Century

In these notes, I first show the point of John 3:1-2 by offering a biblical apologetic for Jesus as having the authority of a prophet to reveal new revelation. Then, I explore the theological environment of First Century Judea in order to provide historical context for Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus. It is no surprise that a large part of the debate among Jews was the degree or mode of human…