DaVinci Fiction
Title: DaVinci Fiction
Subject: DaVinci Fiction
DaVinci Code (article 2)
Darwin’s Theory
What’s your theory on Dan Brown’s book and movie The DaVinci Code? My answer in a nutshell is that it is fiction based on fiction. “Deadly fiction” is a more accurate term. The DaVinci Code makes the claim that “almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false.” That is a bogus statement. However, in this statement author Dan Brown shows his hand. He reveals his personal agenda to attack Jesus, the Church, and the Bible. He falls short on two counts while trying to do this. First, he does not disprove the Bible, and secondly he makes a poor attempt to prove his point. The book basically ends with a big question mark and no proof of what Brown is trying to convince his readers.
Wendy’s used to have a saying: “Where’s the beef!” Brown falls short in showing any “beef” that Jesus was married, that Jesus was just a man and not God, or that Emperor Constantine “hijacked” the church. Brown does two things well: he gives the reader a great thriller, and he does a great job at getting the reader to doubt. This movie will leave people asking, “Who is Jesus?”
Jesus is God (John 1:1, 14). Jesus is Lord of lords (Revelation 17:14). Jesus had a mother, but He most definitely did not have a wife, as Brown claims. Even when Jesus was on the cross, He was obeying the commandment to honor your father and mother (Exodus 20:12). While on the cross Jesus said to the disciple, ‘Behold your mother!’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his own household” (John 19:27). Don’t you think if Jesus had a wife, he would have been taking care of her too?
I leave you this week with part of the Nicean Creed, which is a big part to Brown’s code. Notice I said Brown’s code... DaVinci would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what this author was saying about him. By the way, Constantine did not write the Nicean Creed. This movie would have you believe Constantine hijacked the Church with this creed. The poor emperor was not even a Christian at that point in history.
The creed reads: “We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.”
A nonchristian emperor did not come up with that. The Church after three hundred years of teaching and studying the gospels wrote this creed to affirm who Jesus is. He is the reality of reality. He will not leave you at the end of His story with a big question mark without proof, but He will leave you with answers to life’s questions, and proof that He is King of kings and Lord of lords.
Darwin’s Theory
What’s your theory on Dan Brown’s book and movie The DaVinci Code? My answer in a nutshell is that it is fiction based on fiction. “Deadly fiction” is a more accurate term. The DaVinci Code makes the claim that “almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false.” That is a bogus statement. However, in this statement author Dan Brown shows his hand. He reveals his personal agenda to attack Jesus, the Church, and the Bible. He falls short on two counts while trying to do this. First, he does not disprove the Bible, and secondly he makes a poor attempt to prove his point. The book basically ends with a big question mark and no proof of what Brown is trying to convince his readers.
Wendy’s used to have a saying: “Where’s the beef!” Brown falls short in showing any “beef” that Jesus was married, that Jesus was just a man and not God, or that Emperor Constantine “hijacked” the church. Brown does two things well: he gives the reader a great thriller, and he does a great job at getting the reader to doubt. This movie will leave people asking, “Who is Jesus?”
Jesus is God (John 1:1, 14). Jesus is Lord of lords (Revelation 17:14). Jesus had a mother, but He most definitely did not have a wife, as Brown claims. Even when Jesus was on the cross, He was obeying the commandment to honor your father and mother (Exodus 20:12). While on the cross Jesus said to the disciple, ‘Behold your mother!’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his own household” (John 19:27). Don’t you think if Jesus had a wife, he would have been taking care of her too?
I leave you this week with part of the Nicean Creed, which is a big part to Brown’s code. Notice I said Brown’s code... DaVinci would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what this author was saying about him. By the way, Constantine did not write the Nicean Creed. This movie would have you believe Constantine hijacked the Church with this creed. The poor emperor was not even a Christian at that point in history.
The creed reads: “We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.”
A nonchristian emperor did not come up with that. The Church after three hundred years of teaching and studying the gospels wrote this creed to affirm who Jesus is. He is the reality of reality. He will not leave you at the end of His story with a big question mark without proof, but He will leave you with answers to life’s questions, and proof that He is King of kings and Lord of lords.