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THE

• DAVINCI

CODE
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FACT All descriptions of artwork,
architecture, documents, and secret rituals in
this novel are accurate.
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• almost everything our fathers taught us about
  Christ is false.
• Jesus divinity was the result of a vote of
  bishops
• The early church hijacked Jesus original message
• The Bible is the product of man not of God
• The modern Bible was compiled and edited by men
  who possessed a political agenda to solidify
  their power base
• The secret Gnostic gospels can show people to
  way to genuine spirituality
• A pagan ritual, known as the Sacred Feminine, is
  the only way to achieve the knowledge of the
  divine
• Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene
• They had a child and their blood-line continues
  to this day

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• All of this has been known for centuries but has
  been kept from the public to protect the power of
  the church
• Secret organizations have battled over this
  information that could destroy the church

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Christianity

• The
• Greatest Story Ever
• SOLD?

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Three direct challenges

• The authority of Scripture
• Sacred Feminine
• The nature of Jesus Christ

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• Constantine
• Constantine was a lifelong pagan who was
  baptized on his deathbed, too weak to protest
  (pg. 232)
• Converted Oct 28, 312 after vision of cross and
  battle to gain control of Roman Empire
• Council of Nicea, 325
• Baptism and Death, 337

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What happened at the Council of Nicea? Jesus
establishment as the Son of God was officially
proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicea a
relatively close vote at that Until that
moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His
followers as a mortal prophet. (p
233)Arius vs. Alexander Constantines call for
unity
400 bishops present, only two dissented!
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Testimony of the early church fathers
Until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed
by His followers as a mortal prophet.What do
the Gospels say? "BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE
WITH CHILD AND SHALL BEAR A SON, AND THEY SHALL
CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL," which translated means,
"GOD WITH US." Matthew 123 "Go therefore
and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Spirit, Mat 2820 teaching them to
observe all that I commanded you and lo, I am
with you always, even to the end of the age."
Matthew 2819-20 And they all said, "Are You
the Son of God, then?" And He said to them, "Yes,
I am." Luke 2270

• Tertullian (150-225 AD) "...the only God has
  also a Son, his Word who has proceeded from
  himself, by whom all things were made and without
  whom nothing has been made that this was sent by
  the Father into the virgin and was born of her
  both man and God. Son of Man, Son of God, ..."
  (Against Praxeas, 2).

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Testimony of the early church fathers
Until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed
by His followers as a mortal prophet.What do
the Gospels say? In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,
and we saw His glory, glory as of the only
begotten from the Father, full of grace and
truth. John 11, 14 Then He said to Thomas,
"Reach here with your finger, and see My hands
and reach here your hand and put it into My side
and do not be unbelieving, but believing."
Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my
God!" Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen
Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did
not see, and yet believed." John 2027-29

• Tertullian (150-225 AD) "...the only God has
  also a Son, his Word who has proceeded from
  himself, by whom all things were made and without
  whom nothing has been made that this was sent by
  the Father into the virgin and was born of her
  both man and God. Son of Man, Son of God, ..."
  (Against Praxeas, 2).

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Testimony of the early church fathers
Until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed
by His followers as a mortal prophet.What do
other New Testament writers say? Christ Jesus,
who, although He existed in the form of God, did
not regard equality with God a thing to be
grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of
a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of
men. Being found in appearance as a man, He
humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point
of death, even death on a cross. For this reason
also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him
the name which is above every name, so that at
the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those
who are in heaven and on earth and under the
earth, and that every tongue will confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father. Philippians 25-11 But of the Son
He says, "YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND
EVER, AND THE RIGHTEOUS SCEPTER IS THE SCEPTER OF
HIS KINGDOM. Hebrews 18

• Tertullian (150-225 AD) "...the only God has
  also a Son, his Word who has proceeded from
  himself, by whom all things were made and without
  whom nothing has been made that this was sent by
  the Father into the virgin and was born of her
  both man and God. Son of Man, Son of God, ..."
  (Against Praxeas, 2).

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Testimony of the early church fathers
Until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed
by His followers as a mortal prophet.What do
other New Testament writers say? When I saw Him,
I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed
His right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid
I am the first and the last, and the living One
and I was dead, and behold, I am alive
forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of
Hades. Revelation 117-18 cf. Isaiah 414 He
is the image of the invisible God For in Him all
the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
Colossians 115, 29 Looking for the
blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of
our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, Titus
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• Tertullian (150-225 AD) "...the only God has
  also a Son, his Word who has proceeded from
  himself, by whom all things were made and without
  whom nothing has been made that this was sent by
  the Father into the virgin and was born of her
  both man and God. Son of Man, Son of God, ..."
  (Against Praxeas, 2).

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Until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed
by His followers as a mortal prophet.Testimony
of the early church fathers
Justin Martyr (100-165 AD) "...the Father of the
universe has a Son who being the logos and
First-begotten is also God" (First Apology
6315). Irenaeus (130-200 AD) (referencing
Jesus) "...in order that to Christ Jesus, our
Lord, and God, and Savior, and King, according to
the will of the invisible Father, . . ." (Against
Heresies I, x, 1)
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Testimony of the early church fathers

• Reality Check
• The New Testament clearly teaches the divinity
  of Jesus 250 years prior to the Council of Nicea
• All the church fathers before Nicea acknowledged
  the deity of Christ
• The church fathers often defended the deity of
  Christ against the heresies that denied it
• Nicea merely formalized what the Church already
  believed and was defending.

• Tertullian (150-225 AD) "...the only God has
  also a Son, his Word who has proceeded from
  himself, by whom all things were made and without
  whom nothing has been made that this was sent by
  the Father into the virgin and was born of her
  both man and God. Son of Man, Son of God, ..."
  (Against Praxeas, 2).

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Da Vinci Codes Attack on the Bible
The Bible is a product of man, my dear. Not of
God. The Bible did not fall magically from the
clouds. Man created it as a historical record of
tumultuous times, and it has evolved through
countless translations, additions, and revisions.
History has never had a definitive version of the
book. (page 231)
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Da Vinci Claim The Bible has evolved through
countless translations, additions and revisions.

• Reality Check
• After the canon was settled upon in the late
  fourth century, the only changes that have
  occurred have been a more faithful rendering of
  the original Hebrew and Greek. There have been no
  additions to the text.
• Revisions are simply translations to keep up
  with changes in language

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• Has the Bible been changed over the years?
• The Bible is translated from the original
  language directly into our language
• 5600 Greek manuscripts spread throughout the
  world dating as early as the second century.

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Da Vinci Attack on the Bible 2
Teabing burst with enthusiasm. The fundamental
irony of Christianity! The Bible, as we know it
today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor
Constantine the Great. (page 231) The twist is
this, Teabing said, talking faster now. Because
Constantine upgraded Jesus status almost four
centuries after Jesus death, thousands of
documents already existed chronicling His life as
a mortal man. To rewrite the history books,
Constantine needed a bold stroke. From this
sprang the most profound moment in Christian
history. Teabing paused, eyeing Sophie.
Constantine commissioned and financed a new
Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of
Christs human traits and embellished those
gospels that made Him godlike. The earlier
gospels were outlawed, gathered up and burned.
(page 234)
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Reality Check Constantine and the Council of
Nicea

• There were no gospels considered at the Council
  of Nicea other than Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
• There were no gospels gathered up and burnt
  after Nicea, although the writings of Arius were
  outlawed and burnt. Arius wrote no gospel nor did
  he dispute the accepted gospels.

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Reality Check Constantine and the Council of
Nicea

• Jesus human traits were spoken of in each of
  the four gospels. Christians believe Jesus to be
  fully human as well as fully God.
• There is no evidence that any gospel accounts of
  Jesus were ever embellished following the
  Council of Nicea

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Reality Check The New Testament Canon was
already being formed long before Constantine and
Nicaea

• The heretic, Marcion, pressed the church into
  recognizing a canon by the mid-second century
• Maratorian Canon
• Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
• Acts
• Romans, 1 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians,
  Philippians, Colossians, 1 2 Thessalonians, 1
  2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon
• James, 1 2 John, Jude
• Revelation of John
• Revelation of Peter
• Wisdom of Solomon

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How were books recognized as authoritative to be
included in the canon?

• Apostolic authority
• Conform to acceptable doctrine
• Widespread acceptance throughout the church

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Reality Check What about the books excluded
from the Canon
Secret Gospels found in 1945 at Nag Hammadi The
Gospel of Thomas The Gospel of Barnabas The
Gospel of Phillip The Gospel of Truth The Gospel
to the Egyptians The Apocalypse of Paul The
Apocalypse of Peter The Letter of Peter to
Phillip The Thunder, Perfect Mind Testimony of
Truth
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Reality Check The books excluded from the
Canon

• Although they took the name of apostles, there
  is no evidence any of them were actually written
  by one of the apostles
• They were written between 150 350 AD
• They were collections of sayings, rather than
  the life of Jesus
• There is no evidence they ever enjoyed
  wide-spread acceptance in the early church
• They were filled with strange teaching contrary
  to the doctrine of the apostles

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Jesus (Yeshua) said unto them, When you make
the two into one, and when you make the inner
like the outer and the outer like the inner, and
the upper like the lower, and when you make the
male and female into a single one, so that the
male will not be the male nor the female be
female, when you make eyes in the place of an
eye, a hand in the place of a hand, a foot in the
place of a foot, an image in the place of an
image, then you will enter the Kingdom. The
Gospel of Thomas, The Gnostic Gospels, Pg.51
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Fortunately for historians, Teabing said, some
of the gospels that Constantine attempted to
eradicate managed to survive. The Dead Sea
Scrolls were found in the 1950s hidden in a cave
near Qumran in the Judean desert.

• Reality Check
• The Dead Sea Scrolls were Jewish documents
  written mostly before Jesus lived
• They contained no gospels and only one possible
  reference to Jesus from the Gospel of Mark

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These are photocopies of the Nag Hammadi and
Dead Sea scrolls, the earliest Christian
records. Troublingly, they do not match up with
the gospels in the Bible. (page 245)

• Reality Check
• The Dead Sea Scrolls are not Christian and there
  are thousands of Christian records that predate
  the Nag Hammadi scrolls
• The copies found at Nag Hammadi were dated 250
  350 and were written 150 200 AD long after
  the New Testament was completed.
• No ancient church leader ever argued that texts
  found at Nag Hammadi should be considered
  Scripture

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• The Most Disturbing Claim in the Da Vinci Code
• Jesus Christwas married to Mary Magdalene

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• The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is
  part of the historical record. (p 245)
• I shant bore you with the countless references
  to Jesus and Magdalenes union. That has been
  explored ad nauseam by modern historians. (p
  247)
• Reality Check
• There are NO historical records anywhere that say
  Jesus was ever married!

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• Jesus was a Jew and the social decorum at that
  time virtually forbid a Jewish man to be
  unmarried. (p 245)
• Reality Check
• This is simply an argument from silence
• The Scripture indicates that neither John the
  Baptist nor the apostle Paul were married
• 1 Corinthians 7 advocates being single as a gift
  from God
• There were several splinter groups of Jews who
  practiced celibacy during Jesus time

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• The Gospel of Phillip is a good place to start
  and the companion of the Saviour is Mary
  Magdalene. As any Aramaic scholar will tell
  you, the word companion, in those days, literally
  meant spouse. (p 246)
• Reality Check
• Gospel of Phillip not written in Aramaic
• Written in Coptic a late form of Egyptian
• Coptic was a translation from Greek
• Companion meant companion.

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But the most disturbing aspect of this is the
pagan claim of the Sacred Feminine Physical
union with the female remained the sole means
through which man could become spiritually
complete and ultimately achieve gnosis
knowledge of the divine. Since the days of Isis,
(this has) been considered mans only bridge
from earth to heaven. (p 308)

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The Da Vinci Code must be seen as advocating a
false gospel, contending that pagan, ritualistic,
carnal acts of immorality are the means to true
spirituality as opposed to the death, burial and
resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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For this is the will of God, your sanctification
that is , that you abstain from sexual
immorality that each of you know how to possess
his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not
in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not
know God. 1 Thessalonians 43-5
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I am the way, the truth and the life. No man
comes to the Father but through Me. John
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All that matters is what YOU believe. Robe
rt Langdon (Tom Hanks)
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Praydavinci.com shortreport.com
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• The Pagan Message of The Da Vinci Code
• Everything is fused into one
• No personal God. The goddess worshiped in
  paganism is nothing more than nature and,
  ultimately, since we are natural, we are also a
  part of this goddess
• There is no right or wrong
• Liberation from my Creator to do whatever I want
  as long as I harm no one

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Do you not know that the one who joins himself to
a harlot is one body with her? For He says, The
two will become one flesh. But the one who joins
himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee
immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is
outside the body, but the immoral man sins
against his own body. 1 Corinthians 616-18