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'''Mandaeans''' represent a [[Religion|religious]] [[sect]] that views [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] as a [[Deceit|deceiver]] and a false [[messiah]] but reveres [[John the Baptist]] as a true prophet, the last and greatest of the prophets of God, who, according to their doctrine, performed [[miracle]]s of healing through baptism, which the Mandaeans of the first century viewed as a magical process giving immortality, purification, and physical health. There is historical evidence that the sect of the Mandaeans predated the first century of [[Christianity]]. '''Mandaeism''' or '''Mandaeanism''' since that time has professed a form of [[Gnosticism]].  

'''Mandaeans''' represent a [[Religion|religious]] [[sect]] that views [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] as a [[Deceit|deceiver]] and a false [[messiah]] but reveres [[John the Baptist]] as a true prophet, the last and greatest of the prophets of God, who, according to their doctrine, performed [[miracle]]s of healing through baptism, which the Mandaeans of the first century viewed as a magical process giving immortality, purification, and physical health. There is historical evidence that the sect of the Mandaeans predated the first century of [[Christianity]]. '''Mandaeism''' or '''Mandaeanism''' since that time has professed a form of [[Gnosticism]].  

Most communities of Mandaeans actively practicing their faith have been found in [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]]. They have been [[Persecution|persecuted]] for their faith by [[Islam]]ic fundamentalists.

Most communities of Mandaeans actively practicing their faith have been found in [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]]. They have been [[Persecution|persecuted]] for their faith by [[Islamic terrorism|Islamic governments sponsoring fundamentalist and extremist terrorism]].

== Rejection of Jesus ==

== Rejection of Jesus ==