10/25/2024
OCTOBER BOOK CLUB Revelation Retold
The word SIN is used widely without reference to what exactly we mean. The significance of what we mean by SIN shapes how we think of crime, evil, free-will and issues of regarding addiction that lead to violence.
Have you ever wondered about the origin of Original Sin and why only Protestant Christian’s adopt this doctrine Catholics and Orthodox Christians do not?
We start with the very idea of revelation – how God communicates to us.
Primary Revelation – Nature: The earliest experience of the human species (at least c.300,000 years ago)
Secondary Revelation – Scripture: Emerged with human writing (c.5000 years ago), specifically the Hebrew Bible (c.2500 years ago), the final form of the Christian Bible (c.1700 years ago) and its various editions.
Tertiary Revelation – Reception: How the texts have been interpretated geohistorically, i.e., at different times in different places. Our prime example is the reception history of Original Sin, from sin as
~500 BC: something a person chose to do.
~AD 50: a voluntarily wicked act.
~AD 500: an inescapably evil act (genetic theory of sin called concupiscence).
~AD 1300: a failure of reason (theological inheritance of sin).
21st century: Most Christian traditions do not subscribe to the idea of original sin.
We shall probe a bit into Sin in the Age of the Brain (Paleoanthropology and Neuroscience) and possible the issue of the Sin of Su***de.
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Rewriting Revelation: Science & Revelation
Join us tomorrow, to unpack Chapter 10 - Part 1 of my 2021 book, World’s Oldest Bible: Science & the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Date: Saturday, Oct 26, 2024
Time: 9:00am EST (New York EST) or 9:00pm Malaysia-Singapore time
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