Posted on 04/11/2006 3:41:19 PM PDT by Rockitz
It undermines the Bible itself.
Man those trees are in the forest's way for you.
Da Vinci Code is simply an attempt to cash in on the interest in alternatives to the Christian tradition, reflected in the fanciful scholarship of Pagels and Crossan, and the end result of two hundred years of scholarship hostile to the Church.
Another phase of the on-going Enlightenment project to discredit Christianity. The"illumanti" are so caught up in that that they will promote the most fanciful notions. If they read, say, the Gospel of John they would know that Jesus was not primarily a "teacher " or even as a healer, nor as a public personality was he different from other charismatical figures of the time, the best know of whom was John the Baptist. What distinguished him was the events of Holy Week. Christianity, as the Holy Father has pointed out, is not about words, but about the Word, about the events. He is remarkable not for what he said, but what he did.
Your faith is just that; faith. You believe in the word of God because, well, I'm not sure why. It speaks to you, perhaps. But faith is fallible. There are those who have faith in religions wholly at odds with Christianity. Is their faith wrong? What makes yours right?
The beliefs surrounding God has changed much over the centuries. It is not a constant. I don't find it particularly difficult to believe that a so-called heretical sect was wiped out of existence and left out of the record books. Remember, for a good long while only clerics were literate. If the Church wanted a story gone, who would preserve it?
And the submarine comment did not follow from anything I previously said. It was a strawman argument.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to think unthinkable thoughts that will damn me for all Eternity.
Yes. thank you..
Sez who? Where is the registry where I get my Christianity permit? Who is the authority for defining a Christian? If you tell me it's scripture then explain why there are hundreds of, sometimes warring, factions that all call themselves Christian all holding to a variety of books all called bibles. No one can define what a Christian is in objective terms and no one has a right to say that another person who professes to be a Christian is not.
Dan Brown may offend you. Others may find Baptists, Catholics or Methodists offensive. Deal with it.
As already stated, the DVC makes no mention about the resurrection or divinity and does not contradict those at all. Ya really should READ a book before being critical of it.
In what way? State a specific idea that is put forth by the DVC that is contradictory to the Bible. And before ya throw out that whole "The Bible says Jesus was not married" bit, that is untrue.. the Bible does not say he was married, but does not specifically say he wasn't either. The DVC undermines the RCC if anything, but that is hardly the same thing. People really SHOULD read a book before trying to critique it.
Are you really not seeing it?
Honestly?
Think about it.
If the "idea that is put forth by the DVC," the big idea, were true, then the "real truth" about Jesus has been suppressed - by orthodoxy.
And what you thought was true, the Bible, is part of the plot.
A "specific idea" of DVC is you ain't reading any of that in the canon. Ergo..
You see now? The conspiracy won, the real truth was hidden, defeated and destroyed.
Q.E.D.
Ya really should READ a book before being critical of it.
I read it in one long sitting in B&N - a waste of time. It's "Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which I've also read, with some rediculous flourishes. The spur for both, Priory of Sion, is a proven hoax. (You did read the link, yes?)
The idea of Mary Magdalen traveling to France is a very old legend, still held by a great many. They believe she traveled there with Lazarus and his sister, was responsible for converting France, spent her last 30 years in solitude and died there.
I've read the Gospel of Mary Magdalen, the Gospel of Thomas, a great deal of the Nag Hamadi and Pagel and King on the gnostics.
I do know the story. Very well.
Good, glad to hear it. It's more than some of my supposedly conservative catholic relatives will do. They act like any criticism of the church will see them struck instantly dead. As do many of the Catholic poster here on FR. Glad you're not one of them.
If people want to read Dan Brown’s trash all the power to them. My point is people believe what they want to believe, including non-Christians, many of which take Dan Brown’s fiction as the gospel truth. For instance it was my sister who first told me about the book. Apparently women were treated as equals until the Christians came and oppressed them, she says. Nice little bit of historical revisionism there. People are now going to tell us Christians that Dan Brown has blown our faith apart. The fact is his charges are not new.
H>...a Rabbi must be married (by Jewish Talmudic laws)
R>Is there a specific reference for this? Thanks.
63 posted on 04/11/2006 5:48:35 PM MDT by Rockitz
But where is it stated in the Holy Word of G-d?
b'shem Y'shua
Cool. Thanks.
It wasn't as good as the English Assassin, but Silva writes well. Like early Ludlum.
Check some out from the library. I think you'll like them. Make sure they have Gabriel Allond (?) as the main character. Silva has written a couple that aren't about the art restorer guy; I can't vouch for those.
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