Halting Toward Zion

"Your ultimate priorities generate your ethics"

Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they continue their discussion of the 10 commandments. Why should we not kill? What does kill even mean? What is the significance of the marriage covenant? Why are liars grouped together with murderers and adulterers? Who and what defines ethics and why can't ethics change as time moves on?

Our hosts discuss all these questions and more in this weeks episode

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-worldview-that-shaped-western?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Moses went up to Mount Sinai and received the law from God. What does that mean for Isreal? For us? for all cultures? Join Greg, Rachel, and Emily as they discuss the first 4 of the 10 commandments.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-law-on-mount-sinai?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Why does having an accurate record of history matter in God's story? Why does it matter that we tell a story in order? Why is it that secular histories refuse to consider the Bible an accurate historical text?

Join Greg, Rachel, and Emily as they discuss all this and more in this week's episode.

Transcript:

https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/6c193884-cbf8-4048-a736-f348d5160ff6

Greg, Rachel, and Emily discuss "the gift of the Nile" -Egyptian. Tune in for their discussion of Egyptian Geography, Mythology, and death rituals, along with plenty more. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/egypt-reaching-for-deity?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

"He really didn’t do much. He didn’t lead Israel out of Egypt. He didn’t call fire down from heaven. He didn’t raise the dead. He didn’t survive a world flood. He mostly lived out in the wilderness and raised some good sheep and cattle. But God promised to do something incredible through him and his seed, and without him everything afterwards falls apart."

Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as the discuss Abraham, who his seed are, and justification by faith.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/by-faith-abraham?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

"As promised, we will talk about dinosaurs today – dinosaurs and the deification of the dead – and I hope we’ll get to Abraham as well, but let’s start with dinosaurs."

Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they discuss dinosaurs, the implications of the cultural shift from Dragons to Dinosaurs, and what past cultures believed about the diety of the dead.

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/i-believe-in-dragons?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=truehttps://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/i-believe-in-dragons?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

"We left off last time right on the precipice before the Tower of Babel..."

Mankind reached for godhood, building a tower they imagined was unto heaven, building a society in rebellion to God's command to "Fill the earth." God quickly showed them that wasn't going to happen.

Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they discuss the post-flood world,

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-tower?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What are the sons of God in Genesis 4? What was the actual scope of the flood? What happened to culture after the flood? Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss all this and more in this week's episode.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/htz-2023-12-28?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss the way culture grew in the first 2,000 years of history, from Cain and Abel to the flood and the technology and other advancements of the time.

Transcript:

https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-world-before-the-flood?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

"I think we’re wrapping up and beginning the long trudge through 6,000 years of human history."

Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss what exactly we are looking forward to, what (who) the substitute really is, and the aspects of a good story that we get directly from God's storytelling.

Transcript:

https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/674540dc-48dc-43a4-845b-f2f380bc11dc