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WHAT IS THE DA VINCI CODE ABOUT MOVIE

WHAT IS THE DA VINCI CODE ABOUT MOVIE

The Da Vinci Code came and went (including the movie with Tom Hanks and millions of people being treated to the conspiracy theory of Jesus’ marriage with Mary Magdalene), but this liberal “myth of Christian origins” still persists. One more thing: This spiritual quest will also involve reconnecting with the “sacred feminine” that the church suppressed in its early goings. Rather than destroy Christianity, as may be surmised, this actually will revive the truth for which Jesus lived and for which he died. Discover whatever faith you find that you can believe in.

Here is the payoff: Give up, as historically unwarranted, theologically unjustified, and spiritually and socially damaging, the traditional understanding of Jesus and Christian origins and instead, get in touch with a different form of spirituality based on religious feeling.

This, incidentally, goes over particularly well with those who are trying to escape from fundamentalism or certain forms of Roman Catholicism. Mainstream Christianity, including Roman Catholicism as well as all other mainline denominations and other forms of institutionalized Christianity, is sexist, anti-women, and anti-sex.

Christianity as we know it is based on a gigantic mistake.

Rather, he is much more like the person depicted in those alternative documents: he was a mere human, a teacher of wonderful, lofty ethical and moral teaching-oh, and he may have been married, maybe with a child on the way when his career was tragically cut short.

In fact, however, Jesus was not at all who is portrayed to be in the four canonical Gospels.

The deity of Jesus is not so much a sincere, early theological belief grounded in Jesus’ own divine self-consciousness and the testimony of his first followers but a function of ecclesiastical power and control. The four canonical Gospels are later products of the church that seek to elevate Jesus to the status of deity and that claim power and prestige for the church.In order to know what Jesus really was we must expand our horizons to include these other, more pristine, sources. Besides the four canonical Gospels there are hundreds of other documents about Jesus that present him as a human being and that tell us the “real truth” about Jesus.According to this “myth of Christian origins,” I think the well-known New Testament scholar Tom Wright has put his finger on the pulse of this issue when he writes that the thesis underlying The Da Vinci Code is part of the mainstream liberal American “myth of Christian origins” that is found at elite educational institutions such as Harvard, moderate Southern Baptist churches, and leading scholarly societies such as the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature alike. So, why has this novel been so wildly successful when its plot inventions add up to some “hefty speeding tickets” for its author, as Amy Bernstein aptly noted? But why cover up evidence that does not exist? How does one cover up non-existing evidence? And why cover up evidence about a relationship that never existed in the first place? Such is the “logic” of The Da Vinci Code, and the above non sequiturs already make clear that the conspiracy theory underlying the book has holes so large to accommodate much more than the proverbial Mack truck.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a book about a non-existent code to provide clues to uncover suppressed evidence about a marriage that never took place. The following is excerpted from an article I wrote for Reformation 21: