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 | | Others such as Mormons believe in the Trinity, but maintain that God the Father created Jesus as God the Son, that Jesus created the universe, and add their own sacred texts that continue on past the New Testament; and thus form a different sort of overall Christian history. |
 | | Culturally, Jews had to grapple with the values and philosophy of Hellenism, together with the paradox that their Torah applied only to them, but revealed universal truths. |
 | | Isolated in small communities from these Main groups, by choice, lived the Essenes, whose theology and philosophy are perceived as having influenced Jesus and/or John the Baptist by many scholars. |
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