ACT - Ron Choong
eBook is now available: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
We launched the hardcover coffee table version of this book in 2023 and we are excited to announce that the eBook (PDF) version is now available for purchase for only $9.99*!
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When we read of Moses the Hebrew who grew up in Egypt, who fled to Midian in Saudi Arabia and who returned to Egypt to lead the Exodus of a newly-named people called the Israelites, to Canaan, it is possible to identify the approximate times and places.*
In 2022, I had the opportunity to explore the narratives regarding Moses, Pharaoh and Mount Sinai on expeditions to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. One of the most surprising discoveries for me was the existence of a second Mount Sinai in the Tabuk region of Saudi Arabia. I decided to write a photobook in a coffee-table format full of maps, charts, my personal photographs and timelines to show the story of Christianity in the context of Saudi Arabia's own history.
The Bible tells us that in their moments of escape and renewal, Moses of the Hebrew Bible and Saint Paul of the New Testament called Arabia home. Even Babylonia’s last king, mentioned in the book of Daniel, moved his capital to the Arabian desert.
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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