Writing to Timothy at the end of his life, Paul urged his young disciple to „Preach the Word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their...
So did Mary Magdalene carry ‘with her a secret so powerful that if revealed it threatened to devastate the very foundation of Christianity’ (Da Vinci Code page 322)? The contention of the book is that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’ wife and they had a child. The church has covered up this secret which is contained in the Gnostic gospels but deleted in the four Gospels in the New Testament. As I have...
In order to create the wrong idea of Jesus at the Council of Nicea, the Da Vinci Code claims that the ‘Bible as we know it today was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great … More than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament, and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John among them.’ (page 313). Again this took place at the...
In the Da Vinci Code Teabing claims that at the Council of Nicea the Emperor Constantine led the bishops to declare Jesus as Son of God by a vote – ‘a relatively close vote at that’ (page 315). This was a new idea because ‘Until that moment in history Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless, a mortal.’ In other words Christianity as...
Claims of The Da Vinci Code. The Da Vinci Code is an action packed thriller novel by Dan Brown which has become a best seller and is to be made into a film. It is also a powerful attack on the foundations of Christianity. Of the book’s nearly 600 pages only a few have spiritual significance. I will ignore the story which is a compelling and exciting one (although very far fetched) involving...