DECONSTRUCTING the Code - Softcover

Forbes, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099970690X ISBN 13: 9780999706909

Verlag: Jack A. Fleischli, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

DECONSTRUCTING THE CODE is a story of love and lost meaning, treachery and distrust, creative expression and blatant forgery, book burnings and the chance discovery of priceless writings of antiquity. In a new epic play by writer Jack Forbes, DECONSTRUCTING the Code tells the true story of the origins of Christianity and reveals long-hidden truths of ancient Gnostic Gospels (the "Nag Hammadi Books"). Saul of Tarsus is tormented by Jehovah’s mandate that Gentiles, including Saul’s childhood friend Thecla, could not be saved. As an ordained Rabbi, Saul recognized countless contradictions and impossible edicts within the Torah. Along the road to Tarsus (the so-called "Road to Damascus"), however, Saul experiences a liberating spiritual revelation in a mandate from God—a new religion of a metaphorical Christ where "the Christ is in you." But the Apostle Paul (his Greek, or "Hellenized," name) could never have anticipated how his new, "Gnostic" (Knowledge) Christian religion would later become distorted, challenged and annihilated by the Catholic Church in a violent conspiracy of convenience with Roman Emperor Constantine. For centuries, the literalist Christian church became the sole claimant to Christian doctrines—until one day in 1945 with discovery of the Nag Hammadi Books.

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Jack Forbes was a professional athlete at age 6, as a water ski racer in Long Beach, California sponsored by Piper Skis. Growing up, Jack played baseball, surfed, played guitar, lettered three years in water polo during high school, and graduated with Honors. Jack graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Honors, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Sociology, from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was also a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon (Sig Eps) fraternity. Jack graduated with a Juris Doctor degree, Cum Laude, at Pepperdine University, School of Law. Within a few years of becoming a lawyer in California, Jack added careers as a professional actor in commercials, television and film, a writer of, and vocalist in, three albums of music available online throughout the world (album titles all begin with "WARNING"), and several books available at barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com. Jack worked as a professional ski patrolman in Sun Valley, Idaho and, as a PSIA-certified Alpine 1 Ski Instructor at a local Southern California mountain resort. Currently, Jack's ongoing sport is indoors Doubles Badminton

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jack A. Fleischli
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 099970690X
• ISBN 13: 9780999706909
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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