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The Da Vinci Code and The Gnostic Gospels Fact or Fiction? (Part 3)

The Da Vinci Code and The Gnostic Gospels Fact or Fiction? (Part 3).

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The Da Vinci Code and The Gnostic Gospels Fact or Fiction? (Part 3)

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  1. The Da Vinci Code and The Gnostic Gospels Fact or Fiction? (Part 3) Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.(1 John 4:1-3)

  2. “I think there’s real doubt as to whether Jesus existed or not.” Robert Price - The Jesus Seminar

  3. The Claims of TDVC • Da Vinci’s “’The Last Supper’ practically shouts at the viewer that Jesus and Magdalene were a pair.” • Sophie examined the figure to Jesus’ immediate right … a wave of astonishment rose within her. The individual had flowing red hair, delicate folded hands, and the hint of a bosom. It was, without a doubt… female.

  4. Fact • Da Vinci habitually painted younger men with a more feminine look as witness his portrayals of John the Baptist and Jesus Himself.

  5. Fact • If Da Vinci intended to paint Mary into the picture, there would have been 14 figures. • If the figure at Jesus’ right is Magdalene, where is the missing John?

  6. The Claims of TDVC • “The early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex. In the Temple no less. Early Jews believed that the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Temple housed not only God but also His powerful female equal, Shekinah.”

  7. Fact • A jaw-dropping, ridiculous fantasy. • Nothing was or is as basic to the Hebrews as their foundational belief in one God (not two or more). • Attaching sexuality of any kind to this one God was so abhorrent to Jews that they did not even have a word in Hebrew for goddess. • “Shekinah” refers to the glory of God and His presence.

  8. The Claims of TDVC "I thought Constantine was a Christian," Sophie said. "Hardly," Teabing scoffed. "He was a lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed, too weak to protest..

  9. Fact • Historians agree that Constantine became a genuine Christian convert, repaid the church for its terrible losses during persecutions, built many churches throughout his empire - and desired baptism near death. • Delayed baptism was a mistaken custom of the time to wipe your slate clean at the end of life.

  10. The Claims of TDVC “Nothing in Christianity is original…Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans." "What do you mean?" "Originally," Langdon said, "Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration day of the sun." He paused, grinning. "To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute—Sunday."

  11. Fact • The earliest Christians started worshipping on the “first day of the week,” Sunday, which they called “The Lord’s Day,” to honor the day on which Christ rose from the dead. This is obvious from both the New Testament (Acts 20:7, 1 Cor. 16:2, Rev. 1:10), as well as the writings of the earliest church fathers.

  12. “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” (1John 4:4)

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