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...judge ruled that testimony may not be accepted from a witness who does not believe in heaven or hell. Judge Claude Prevost refused to allow the plaintiff in a damage action to give evidence under oath, because she belongs to La Mission de L'Esprit Saint, a Protestant sect which does not believe in reward or punishment after death...
Adin was forthwith "shunned" by the whole sect. Friends stopped talking to him. Neighbors came to visit his wife when he was in the fields, left as soon as he returned. Irritated by his lonely existence, Adin finally lit on a group of neighbors and told them to stay away altogether. About this time a nephew decided Adin was showing signs of insanity. He had a talk with Psychologist Jacob Goering at Brook Lane, a Mennonite hospital for mental care. On the basis of the nephew's description, bolstered by talks with Adin's wife, Goering decided that...
...Differences. Like most other scholars, Allegro identifies the Qumran sect with the Essenes, who almost surely had a monastery near the Dead Sea at the same point as the Qumran ruins. The Essenes, says Allegro, had a kind of "Third Order" of laymen living according to a modified rule in the towns and villages of Palestine, and "it seems reasonable to assume that Jesus was acquainted with such people." He adds: "It is possible that the 'great company of priests' who were 'obedient to the faith,' mentioned in Acts 6:7, included at least part...
...comparative religion at Dropsie College, Gaster prints the virtually complete text of the scrolls, together with a concordance of passages in the scrolls that also appear in the Old and New Testaments. Most informative is the "Manual of Discipline," which sets down the moral code of the Qumran sect, with detailed stipulations: "Everyone is to be judged by the standard of his spirituality. Intercourse with him is to be determined by the purity of his deeds, and consort with him by the degree of his intelligence. This alone is to determine the degree to which...
...hymns of the Qumran sect, now completely translated and accessible to the layman for the first time, give readers an authentic feeling of what the scrolls are like. They also offer a moving insight into an ancient mode and mood of worship as well as haunting echoes of Biblical psalms. Excerpts...