by: Jay Brennan

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Separating Fact from Fiction
I John 4 1-7

• by Jay Brennan

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Questions Raised by the Book

• Is Jesus God? Almost everything our church
  Fathers taught us about Christ is False pg
  235
• Is the Bible true? The Bible is a product of Man
  and not of God. (Pg 231)
• Was Jesus married? Behold the greatest cover-up
  in human historynot only married, but he was a
  father p.249 Mary Magdalene was pregnant at
  the time of the crucifixionIt was here in France
  that she gave birth to a daughter. Her name was
  Sarah. (pg. 255)

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Questions Raised by the Book

• Lost Books of the Bible - Are They Real? Teabing
  claims that the Nag Hammadi texts and the Dead
  Sea Scrolls are the earliest Christian records
  (245) the unaltered gospels 248.
• What is the Sacred Feminine? "The Priory believes
  that Constantine and his male successors
  successfully converted the world from matriarchal
  paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a
  campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred
  feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern
  religion forever." (p. 124) Jeremiah 44 17-18

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Questions Raised by the Book

• What about the Holy Grail? The church needed to
  defame Mary Magdalene in order to cover up her
  dangerous secret her role as the Holy Grail.
  pg 244

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FACT

• All descriptions of artwork, architecture,
  documents, and secret rituals in this novel are
  accurate.
• (page before the Prologue)

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Three Purposes Behind Series

• To equip those who believe. Jude 3-4 Acts 1711
• To engage our culture. Acts 17 16,17, 22, 23 and
  30.
• To share the gospel To tell the Truth about
  Jesus. I Peter 3 15

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Storyline Main Characters

• Jacques Sauniere, murdered museum curator at the
  Louvre, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, sworn
  protectors of the Holy Grail.
• Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious
  Symbology, Harvard University
• Sophie Neveu, agent of the Department of
  Crypto-graphy, a branch of the French state
  police
• Sir Leigh Teabing, wealthy and fanatic grail
  researcher, British Royal Historian affiliated
  with Oxford University. Expert in the Gnostic
  gospels.

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Last Supper Hidden Secrets
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Misrepresentation of Facts

• Constantine and the Council of Nicaea
• Gnosticism and the Gnostic Gospels
• Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the Search for the Holy
  Grail
• The Bible How it was formed
• The Reliability of the Bible

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Crown, Council, Creed

• Constantine becomes a Christian in 312 A.D
• Council called together by Constantine in 325
  A.D. Chief issue of council was the nature of
  Jesus.

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Nicaea Creed
"We believe in one God, the Father, Almighty,
Maker of all things visible and invisible and in
the one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
begotten of the Father, only-begotten, that is,
from the substance of the Father God from God,
Light from Light, Very God from Very God,
begotten not made, of one substance with the
Father, through whom all things were made
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Brown Makes 3 Claims

• 1. Constantine invented the deity of Christ in
  order to consolidate his power (pg. 233)
• 2. Constantine rejected other gospels from the
  New Testament (that were favorable to the divine
  feminine) because they did not suit his political
  agenda. (p.231)
• 3. The doctrine of Christs deity passed by a
  relatively close vote.(p.231)

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Refuting Browns 3 Claims

• 1. Constantine didnt invent Deity of Christit
  was already consensus of delegates. Two things
  confirms this.
• The Church Fathers
• The Witness of Christian Martyrs

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Church Fathers

• Ignatius God Himself being manifested in human
  form . . . (A.D. 105) Epistle of Ignatius to
  the Ephesians, chapter XIX
• Clement It is fitting that you should think of
  Jesus Christ as God (A.D. 150) The Second
  Epistle of Clement, chapter I
• Justin Martyr the Father of the universe has a
  Son who also, being the first-begotten Word of
  God, is even God (A.D. 160) The First Apology
  of Justin Martyr, chapter LXIII
• Irenaeus He is God, for the name Emmanuel
  indicates this (A.D. 180) Against Heresies,
  book III, chapter XXI
• Tertullian . . . Christ our God (A.D. 200)
  The Apology, Of Patience, chapter XIII

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Church Fathers

• Origen no one ought to be offended, seeing God
  is the Father, that the Saviour is also God . .
  . (A.D. 225). Origen de Principiis, book I,
  chapter II
• Novatian Christ is not man only, but God also
  (A.D. 235). A Treatise of Novatain
  Concerning the Trinity, chapter XVI
• Cyprian That Christ our God should come, the
  En-lightener and Saviour of the human race (253
  A.D.). Treatise XII, second book, Testimonies
• Lactantius We believe Him to be God (A.D.
  304). The Divine Institutes, book V, Of
  Justice, chapter III

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Refuting Browns 2nd Claim

• 2. Constantine and delegates eliminating
  books from New Testament.
• Aha! . . . The fundamental irony of
  Christianity! The Bible, as we know it today,
  was collated by the pagan Roman emperor
  Constantine the Great.(pg. 231)
• 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.
  (234)
• Twenty rulings were issued at Nicaea, and the
  contents of all of them are still in existence
  today not one of them refers to issues regarding
  which books were authoritative

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Refuting Browns 3rd Claim

• Deity of Christ Passed by a Relatively Close
  Vote
• The Vote 313 vs. 5
• Only two refused to sign out of 318

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Four Diagnostic Tests I John 4

• Take a Truth Test
• 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. v.1
• Satan himself masquerades as an angel of
  light. 2 Cor. 11 14

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Four Diagnostic Tests I John 4

• 2. Make Christ the Key
• 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, 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. v. 2-3

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Four Diagnostic Tests I John 4

• 3. Remember that God is Greater
• 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. They
  are from the world and therefore speak from the
  viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to
  them. We are from God, and whoever knows God
  listens to us but whoever is not from God does
  not listen to us. This is how we recognize the
  Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
  v.4-6

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Four Diagnostic Tests I John 4

• 4. Love is Limitless
• Dear friends, let us love one another, for
  love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been
  born of God and knows God. v.7

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