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It's
Just a Novel (Movie)
1. Story of The Da Vinci
Code: Murder Mystery
2. Story of The Da
Vinci Code: Historical Secret
3. Leonardo’s Last
Supper
4. Derivation of
'Holy Grail'
5. Mary Magdalene in
the Bible
6. Priory of Sion
6a. Opus Dei
7. Questions of
Jesus’s True Identity
8. Non-Christian
Sources
9. Christian Sources:
Biblical Texts
10. Other Apostolic
Texts
11. St.
Ignatius of Antioch – AD 110
12. "Alternate"
Gospels: Gospel of Peter (c. AD 130)
13. St. Justin,
Martyr – AD 151
14. St. Irenaeus of
Lyon – AD189
15. "Alternate"
Christianities
16. Gnostic
Scriptures
17. The
‘Muratorian’ Canon – c. AD 200
18. Constantine
19. Council of
Nicaea - AD 325
20. St. Eusebius,
Bishop of Caesarea (c. AD 330)
21. Constantine’s
Bibles
22. Codex Sinaiticus
23. Closing the
Canon
24. Philosophical
Issues: Diversity of Christianities
25. Philosophical
Issues: Subjectivism of Belief
26. Theological
Issue: Was Jesus married?
27. Other Historical
Claims
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Philosophical Issues: Diversity of Christianities
The Da Vinci Code
Sophie was startled. "There exists
a family tree of Jesus Christ?"
"Indeed. And it is purportedly one
of the cornerstones of the Sangrael documents. A complete genealogy of
the early descendants of Christ."
"But what good is a documented
genealogy of Christ’s bloodline?" Sophie asked. "It’s
not proof. Historians could not possibly confirm its
authenticity."
Teabing chuckled. "No more so than
they can confirm the authenticity of the Bible."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning that history is always
written by the winners. . . . By its very nature, history is always a
one-sided account."
Sophie had never thought of it that
way.
"The Sangrael documents simply
tell the other side of the Christ story. In the end, which side of the
story you believe becomes a matter of faith and personal exploration,
but at least the information has survived. . . ." DVC 255-6
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Myth (underlying DVC and much attention given
to Gnostics – e.g., Gospel of Judas)
There were many different forms of
Christianity among the followers of Jesus
Each form (Gnostic (docetic), Arian,
'orthodox') is equally legitimate; they are just different
interpretations of a remarkable person, Jesus. Who he really was
or is, is impossible to determine being so far removed from his time.
All records of his life are biased -- there are no objective records.
The accepted or "orthodox"
view is what happened to survived (through political alliances (with
Constantine) and by eliminating its rivals)
The followers of Jesus were a small
cohesive band of followers with powerful personal experience of the
Risen Jesus Christ. They were persecuted and never imagined
having any prospect of political power.
This persecuted Church passed on the
true Gospel received from Him: He is the Only Son of God, and we can
have life through faith in Him and the Church He founded.
Later generations also had a personal
experience of Jesus as Lord; they judged authentic Scripture in the
light of the faith in Christ they were living.
The Church eventually approved
(canonized) authentic Scripture and condemned as false and dangerous
those texts and interpretations of the Gospel that changed that Truth.
The condemned texts disappeared through disuse, by not being copied.
They were never burned. (In fact, most of what we know about the
condemned texts has survived in the writings of orthodox Christians
like Irenaeus and Eusebius.)
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