The Age of Reason BIBLE STUDY CONTENTS with descriptions

All of the individual chapters in the AOR Bible study's Historical Section (14 chapters) and Doctrinal Section (36 chapters) are briefly described below.  To go to a chapter, click its title...and you may read the chapter as a web page, or you may open it as a PDF document with specialized info-rich bookmarks – and then save it if you wish.

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Chapter 1

Moses, the Alphabet, the Pentateuch, and the “Original Sacred Languages”

Topics covered: ►They said Adam & Eve were fictitious...until they dug up Tepe Gawra & Tell Halaf. ►Uncovering Gobekli Tepe won't be finished for another 100 years, but it has already turned evolution and the development of the human race on its head. ►They said King Hezekiah and the Pool of Siloam never existed...until 2004 when bulldozers began renovating Jerusalem's sewer system. ►Miscellaneous Topics: What we've learned about what the universe consists of; gravity is losing its hold on the universe; how entropy has made it so we no longer live for hundreds of years, how entropy makes the present state of the universe a calendar...& these new facts are causing people to question their belief in evolution. ►They said Moses' vocabulary in the Bible didn't exist until centuries later. ►They said the alphabet wasn't invented until centuries after Moses...so he couldn't write. ►Then in 2012 newly-discovered ancient inscriptions engraved in stone turned out to be the world's first alphabet...and that Hebrew alphabet changed everything. ►When scholars talk about the "original" "sacred" languages, do they know what they're talking about?

 

Chapter 2

      War, The Great Commission, and The Manuscript Mess

Why God made Abraham's people special.  This (with D7 & D8) explains why saints are different from pagans, and how the world's different religions developed.

 

Chapter 3

   Origen’s Quest to Find the True Text and Thereby End the Manuscript Mess

Pagan nations could not defeat God's people, so Balaam, up on Peor, taught them how to corrupt God’s saints.

 

Chapter 4

       Jerome and the Thousand-Year Latin Vulgate Bible

Just as apostasy caused God to divide humans into saints and pagans, apostasy divided the 12 tribes into Judah and Israel.

 

Chapter 5

       The Masoretes, Their OT Manuscript, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

He conquered the world and spread the leaven of Greek philosophy/Reason, which corrupted pure faith in Thus saith the Lord.

 

Chapter 6

       How the End of Feudalism Helped Enslave Society

He became popular and influential by subtly using Greek philosophy to “interpret” Christian doctrines.  His philosophy- and human-Reason-based writings became the foundation of Roman Catholicism, and led to the “Enlightenment", theology, morality, and modern secular society.

 

Chapter 7

       The Advent of Mere Bible Versions

Barbarians almost extinguished Enlightened scholarship (Greek philosophy) ...but the Crusades and Catholic scholars brought it back, leading to the Inquisition and to Albertus Magnus' defense of Augustine's acceptance of Plato's theory that all souls are immortal.

 

Chapter 8

       The AV1611: The Living Word of Our Living God

Aquinas had a massive impact on Christianity, in part because Augustine had been exposed as intellectually pedestrian, which threatened the continued existence of the Catholic Church.  So Aquinas formally blended Greek philosophy with Catholic doctrine, which made Greek philosophy-based Reason (theology) become “Christian,” and Reason quickly displaced Scripture as the foundation of Catholicism...as well as all of Western civilization.