"Errors
In The Da Vinci Code?"
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I
really liked reading Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code."
I thought it was a good work of fiction. I'm sure I'll
probably like the movie too.
One
Problem
But, I have one problem with the story. My problem is that
Dan Brown tries to blur the line between truth and fiction when
he begins the book stating, "All descriptions of artwork,
architecture, documents and secrets in this novel are accurate."
It's just not true!
Inaccuracies
In The Book
Here are just a couple of the inaccuracies in the story...
Dan Brown says
that the Dead Sea scrolls contained some gospels, but there
isn't ONE gospel in all the Dead Sea scrolls. The
Dead Sea scrolls are believed to have been the library of an ascetic
Jewish group, not a Christian group.
Dan Brown also says that Constantine chose the books of the Bible
through the Council of Nicaea. That also isn't true.
The council met to discuss how to talk about Jesus' divinity
and humanity, not choose books for the Bible.
Secret
Truths?
I think that Dan Brown's use of inaccuracies disguised as "fact"
will confuse people and cause them to believe that they are
hearing the real, "secret truths" about Jesus and the
Bible.
People who
read the book and see the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie need to remember
that the facts stated by Dan Brown's fictional historian, Leigh
Teabing, are not coming from an ACTUAL expert.
They are coming from the research of Dan Brown and his
wife Blythe. The words of Teabing are in reality the words
of a former English teacher and an art history buff.
I'm not an expert myself, but even I was able, through simple
research, to discover how inaccurate their "facts" are.
That's why we'll
begin a four-week sermon series on May 21st entitled,
"The Da Vinci Code Uncovered".
I want to use
this series to help people sift through the claims of the book
and compare them with the historical facts. I think you'll
be surprised at what you discover!
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recording of what we talked talked
about over the last 3 Sundays. You
can read the intro and stream or download the recording
"The Truth About Jesus And Mary Magdalene" here.
I
talked about these things on previous Sundays:
*
How the process that brought the Bible we have in our hands today
into being was the normal and correct way ANY historical event
is recorded.
* Why the gospels we have in our Bibles are the most reliable
ones.
* We saw that Jesus claimed to be God from the very beginning. Costantine
had nothing to do with him "becoming divine"!
* We saw that Constantine had NOTHING to do with choosing the
books of the Bible
* We saw how the way that the books we have in the Bible were
chosen to be included in Bible is a pretty common sense way
* We saw that when you put the writings of the Bible against
any other ancient document (that isnt questioned) that the Bible
proves its as reliable or more than they are!
*What Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" painting
really reveals!
*The Truth about the book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"!
(You
can hear these talks online here.)
You
can read the intro and stream or download the recording
"The
Truth About Jesus And Mary Magdalene" here!
My last talk
will be uploaded later this week. On it I will reveal:
- Did
Jesus pass of the authority of the church to Mary Magdalene?
Did the church suppress this to hold back women/ destroy the concept
of divine feminine?
- The
hidden code/clue in Dan Brown's book that reveals what he is really
trying to get across in his book. It will show you what his
real motive in writing the book could've been.
- We'll
end our search for the truth and discover where this all leads
us in trying to know what's true in life.
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