Inspiration
1. The meat of this book are collected essays glued together with chapters that provide insight and context to how they all fit together and to my personal journey of deconstruction and reconstruction. You will find the essays will often have a different tone and style compared to the ‘glue chapters’ as the essays were written some time ago.
2. My use of “deconstruction” and “reconstruction” will be a little loose in this book. My use of deconstruction aligns mostly with Postmodernism. My use of reconstruction, on the other hand, has little resemblance to related ideas (eg. Reconstructionism, Reconstructivism, etc.). I am using the word in this book to show the opposite process to deconstruction.
Prisms and Principles
3. Again, me. I’m the author.
Do you believe in God? Provide your reasoning.
4. https://twitter.com/LayahHeilpern/status/1586800646010720256
5. https://twitter.com/shovas/status/1586914566121848832
We have to go back
6. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Flash_sideways/Theories
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_noncontradiction
Preparation
9. I distinctly recall my thinking more specifically being along the lines of: If my faith and the bible are true then my faith and the bible will stand up under scrutiny. I will dive into all the atheists’ and skeptics’ challenges and see if the bible really is right or wrong.
Those who mourn are blessed: Reading scripture backwards.
10. The Author’s Note paragraph was part of the original piece and is not new to this book. The referenced piece, ‘Be perfect’, is included in this book.
Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect – Wait, what?
11. https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/a/4910/23560
12. The Book of Matthew is well understood to have been written in Hebrew or Aramaic, to fellow Jews in their own language, but our only surviving manuscripts found so far are in Greek. See: https://www.catholic.com/qa/was-matthews-gospel-first-written-in-aramaic-or-hebrew
Revelation
13. Big Death in the Jordan B. Peterson sense of ‘catastrophe you can’t recover from’.
Unhitched: Inception
14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmoTAtH3zus
15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBX08olAoFw
16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pShxFTNRCWI
Unhitched: Aftermath
17. For a particularly excellent reading of Andrea del Sarto, try the following YouTube link or search YouTube for “Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning (read by Tom O’Bedlam)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiw42N_qx_k