Who were the Ebionites? The Ebionites (a term that means ‘the poor’) were a Jewish-Christian religious group that believed in following the Old Testament laws.  They denied that Jesus was God in flesh, taught that he was created and that God adopted him at the time of his baptism.  They were vegetarians, rejected the Apostle Paul’s teachings, and accepted only the gospel of Matthew¹Geisler, N. L., & Nix, W. E. (1996, c1986). A general introduction to the Bible, Chicago: Moody Press, p. 302 citing The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, pp. 438-39.. They also denied the virgin birth but did affirm Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.