The Nazarenes were known as Baptists, Ebionites and Christians of Saint John. Their belief was that the Messiah was not the Son of God, but he was just a prophet who wanted to follow John.

Origenes -Book II, page 150- noticed that “there are some people who say that John was the Anointed -the Christ”.

When the metaphysical conceptions of the Gnostic groups -which saw in Jesus the Logos and the Anointed one- began to be accepted, the primitive Christians separated from the Nazarenes, who accused Jesus of corrupting the doctrine of John and of changing the Baptism in the Jordan -Codex Nazaraeus II, page 109.

It is an undeniable that during the reign of the emperor Constantine, the Catholic Church was established as official church of the Empire. At that time in history, the Church clearly possessed religious and political power.

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