The blockbuster best selling novel, Da Vinci Code, declares

that it has a secret contained in its pages that has the power

to destroy the entire Christian church, by exposing its

foundations to be fraudulent. 

 

 Jesus Christ was God in the flesh.  Not just a good teacher,

or a philosopher, an earthly king, or even just a very brave

man.  The crucifixion was not an accident or an afterthought or

a mistake, or a bad result of some other failed plan. He did

not come here to start a natural human family.   Every soul has

to come face to face with the question, what am I going to do

with  this Jesus, who calls Himself God?

 

  Among those who refuse to believe, there has always been the

devil's evangelists, who have used various means to try to

destroy the faith of those who do believe. The attempt to

alledgedly prove that Jesus was not the divine God in the flesh

that He said he was, is not new, nor surprising.  The new

wrinkle that comes with the Da Vinci Code, is that a writer has

created a fiction story, woven it together with a little bit of

true history, a little bit of legend, and a  whole lot of

lies,and is trying to confuse it all in the mind of the reader,

so the reader will accept as historical truth that which is a

complete lie.

 

As fiction books go, it is well written and exciting. The

 plot is a well-used design.   Innocent man

gets caught up in circumstances beyond his control. The bad

guys are after him. Our hero is joined by a new friend, who

believes him and wants to help him. So now it's two innocents

running from the bad guys.    In the Da Vinci Code, the French

police, and an organization called Opus Dei, are after a

college professor, a specialist in religious symbology. The

French police are after him because they think he murdered an

art curator in the Louvre museum.   His newly acquired sidekick

turns out to be the grand daughter of the murdered man.

Together they decipher a coded message the murdered man wrote

to his granddaughter in his last moments of life.   This begins

a frantic chase across France, involving our heroes, The French

Gendarmes, and a murderous albino monk.   

 

What everybody is chasing is a "deep dark secret".  That

alledged secret is that Jesus Christ was a married man. That

Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and that they had a child.

and that that child began a bloodline that eventually became a

long line of French royalty, called the Merevingians. The

descendants of the Merevingians are likely to someday come out

of hiding, and claim the political power that they think they

have inherited.   

 

  Author Dan Brown writes a fiction book, and labels most of it

as fact.

 

 

The idea is put forth in the book, that Jesus was not divine,

and never claimed to be.   It is claimed that His divinity was

something made up later, by Emperor Constantine.

 

In actual fact, the New Testament is overflowing  with Jesus'

plain statements as to who He is. John 10;30. I and my father

are one.  John 10;38. the Father is in Me and I in Him.  John

5;26, the Father has life in Himself.  The Son has life in

Himself. John 11;25 I am the resurrection and the life.  John

12;45. He that sees Me, sees Him that sent Me. John 14;6. I am

the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father

except by me. If you do not believe that I am He, you have no

life in you.  He that sees me, sees the Father.

 

Some people once went to stone him, and when He asked them, for

what good work do you want to stone me? They answered, for no

good work.  But you, being a man, make yourself equal to God.

The statement that some people make that Jesus never claimed

divinity is absolutely false.  Not only false, but totally

idiotic.   

 

Another strange doctrine taught from these books is that a

group of writings called the gnostic gospels are a truer

picture of christ than the new testament, and the the New

Testament was a re-write of the gnostic gospels, in order to

sell Constantine's alledged male dominant idea of religion.

 

The novel sets up this non-existant straw man of Constantine

re-writing the gnostic gospels to favor male dominance. Then it

tears down the non-existant straw man by endorsing worship of

something called the divine feminine.  The action of the story

strongly suggests, that because of this alledged relationship

between Jesus and the Magdalene, that Mary Magdalene represents

this divine feminine principle, the divine goddess, and as

such, is a proper person to worship. 

 

  This sacred feminine divine goddess idea has been present in

all pagan religions since the beginning of religion itself, and

since the third and fourth century, has pushed its way into

Christianity. But whether you call her Astarte, Sophia, Cybele,

Isis, Semiramis, Diana of the Ephesians, Athena, Mary, or Mary

Magdalene, female goddess worship is always idol worship, and a

breaking of the first commandment.  I am the Lord your God. You

shall have no other Gods before me. Which part of that

commandment don't we understand?  2 timothy 3;16 says, all

scripture is given by God, and is profitable to you for

doctrine, for reproof, and instruction in righteousness. You

can't take just any old writings, even if they claim to be

about Jesus, and call them the Holy Bible. The gnostic writings

were written in the third century, and have nothing in them

that in any way can be called inspired by the mind of God. 

 

 

 The next thing we have to deal with is the claim that Jesus

Christ and Mary Magdalene were married.  If you want to believe

that in his human life on this earth Jesus took a wife, help

yourself. It does not subtract a half a featherweight from his

sinless perfection.  Nor does it cancel the appointment you

have with Him at the end of your life, to meet Him as your

sinless Saviour.    Or your sinless Judge. Whichever you

prefer. 

 

 

 As far as having a child is concerned.  The divinely conceived

Son of the Everlasting Father, fully man in this life, had no

room in the plan of salvation to father a natural child.   In

his capacity as fully divinely begotten of the Father, he did

not come to earth to start a natural family, to confuse the

sinful vs the sinless in a natural bloodline. There is no room

in the eternal trinity for a fourth member.  God has no only

begotten grandson.

 

 

   Concerning those alledged secret societies with their secret

documents,and their world shaking ancient secrets, there are

none.  There never have been any. There are no secret

documents. There is no deep dark secret protected down thru the

ages. There is no crazed albino monk sent out by Opus Dei to

spread murder across the face of France. There aren't any French

police chasing an electronic tracking bug stuck in a bar of

soap. The whole thing is a made up story.

 

 Leonardo Da Vinci painted little details in his paintings,

because that is what painters do. Mr. Da Vinci is not available

for interviews. So Dan Brown feels free to plagiarize Da

Vinci's art work, for his own use and purposes, without having

to answer to anyone for it.

 

 On several occasions,the author re-invents and re-writes

history with his own fictional ideas presented as fact.  In the

book, Dan Brown accuses Emperor Constantine of making up a

religion of his own.

 

Thru the pages of this book, Dan Brown is doing exactly the

same thing he accuses Emperor Constantine of doing.  He is

inventing a religion.  He is setting Mary Magdalene up as a

goddess, and is inviting his readers to worship her.

 

2 timothy 2;19. the foundation of God stands sure. 2 peter 1;19

says, we have a more sure word of prophesy. Ephesians 4;14

says, from now on, we should no more be children, tossed to and

fro with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, and

cunning craftyness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.  We

should never let our faith in the eternal truth of Almighty

God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ,  be disturbed by the

imaginative fantasies of unbelievers, no matter what kind of

exciting books they can write.