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The Da Vinci Code Assault on Biblical
Christianity

• Dr. Jobe Martin
• Biblical Discipleship Ministries
• www.biblicaldiscipleship.org

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OTHER RESOURCES

• Cracking Da Vincis Code, James Garlow and Peter
  Jones
• The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code, Richard
  Abanes
• Breaking the Da Vinci Code Answers to the
  Questions Everyone is Asking, Darrell Bock
• The Da Vinci Deception, Erwin Lutzer
• The Da Vinci Code Deception, DVD, Grizzly Adams
  Productions

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GALATIANS 16-9

• 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
  that called you into the grace of Christ unto
  another gospel 7 Which is not another but there
  be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
  gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel
  from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you
  than that which we have preached unto you, let
  him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I
  now again, If any man preach any other gospel
  unto you than that ye have received, let him be
  accursed.

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What is the Gospel that we have received?

• 1 Corinthians 153f
• 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that
  which I also received, how that Christ died for
  our sins according to the scriptures 4 And that
  he was buried, and that he rose again the third
  day according to the scriptures 5 And that he
  was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve6 After
  that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren
  at once of whom the greater part remain unto
  this present, but some are fallen asleep. 7 After
  that, he was seen of James then of all the
  apostles. 8 And last of all he was seen of me
  also, as of one born out of due time.

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DA VINCI CODES CENTRAL THEME

• Almost everything our fathers taught us about
  Jesus Christ, the Bible and Church History is
  false!
• See Dan Brown,The Da Vinci Code (New York
  Doubleday, 2003), p.235, etc.

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• The Code says The Bible is a product of man,
  my dear. Not of God.It has evolved through
  countless translations, additions, and
  revisions.The Bible, as we know it today, was
  collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine
  the Great (page 231).
• This is doublespeak! If Constantine collated
  the Bible as we know it today and he died in
  A.D. 337, then all these countless translations,
  additions, and revisions must have occurred
  before 337, but we have manuscripts in Greek and
  Hebrew dated long before A.D. 337.
• We can check it out, and Dan Brown is wrong!

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Dan Browns Biblical research is either sloppy,
or intentionally misleading!

• Constantine died in A.D. 337. He did NOT collate
  the Bible. The Hebrew Old Testament existed long
  before Jesus was born. The Canon of the New
  Testament was nearly complete by A.D. 100 and was
  formalized and completed between A.D. 393 and
  397 60 years after Constantine died!
• So the Bible as we know it today could not
  possibly have been collated by the pagan
  emperor Constantine the Great!

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• WHEN OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH IS ATTACKED WE
  CHRISTIANS MUST RESPOND!

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• If the God of Genesis 1 is unreliable, so is the
  one in Psalms, the Gospel of John, and
  Revelation. He is the same One in Romans and
  Philippians, too. Either you utterly trust the
  God you meet in Genesis 1, or you have nothing
  else. He is the same. He does not change.
  Pastor John Barnett, Tulsa Bible Church

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1 PETER 315

• 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and
  be ready always to give an answer to every man
  that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in
  you with meekness and fear.

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JUDE 3

• Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto
  you of the common salvation, it was needful for
  me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye
  should earnestly contend for the faith which was
  once delivered unto the saints.

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PROVERBS 1412

• There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
  but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• Deception

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• In the last days the engine of Satans world
  system is fueled by DECEPTION!

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II Corinthians 113

• But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
  beguiled (deceived) Eve through his subtlety
  (craftiness), so your minds should be corrupted
  from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• In other words Dont be deceived!

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• The engine of Dan Browns The Da Vinci Code is
  deception.

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Dan Brown claims through his characters

• Christians were deceived by the 300 church
  leaders called together in 325 A.D. by
  Constantine at the Council of Nicaea (p.233).
• Constantine used the Christians to solidify his
  political power base (p.234).
• The Council of Nicaea altered the Bible and
  removed the truth of goddess worship (p.124).
• The Council of Nicaea created the divine Christ
  (Jesus was not God until Nicaea said so p.233).

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Dan Brown claims through his characters

• Unbiased science could not possibly be performed
  by a man who possessed faith in God (p. 149).
• This assumption is so wrong Most major sciences
  were begun by Christian scientists who were men
  of great faith in the God of the Biblea God of
  predictability, regularity, symmetry, order and
  great power and genius!
• See John 1 Colossians 1 Hebrews 1
• Ref The Defenders Study Bible, H. Morris

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Unbiased science could not possibly be performed
by a man who possessed faith in God. p. 149

• Following is a partial list of scientists with
  faith in the God of the Bible and the area of
  unbiased science they founded
• Joseph Lister--------Antiseptic surgery
• Louis Pasteur--------Bacteriology
• Michael Faraday----Electromagnetics
• Robert Boyle---------Chemistry
• Johannes Kepler----Celestial Mechanics
• Charles Babbage----Computer science

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• John A. Fleming-----Electronics
• Lord Raleigh----------Dimensional Analysis
• Lord Kelvin------------Thermodynamics
• Kelvin was a British Physicist and Mathmetician
  who gave us our first Trans-Atlantic cable, said
• If you think strongly enough, you will be forced
  by science to a belief in God. We must pause,
  face to face, with the mystery and miracle of
  creation.

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• Louis Agassiz-------Glacial Geology
• George Stokes------Fluid Mechanics
• William Hershel-----Galactic Astronomy
• Gregor Mendel------Genetics
• Matthew Maury------Hydrography
• William Ramsey-----Isotopic Chemistry
• Ray DamadianMagnetic Resonance Imaging

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• Enrique Fabret------Entomology
• I cant say I believe in God I see Him. Without
  Him I understand nothing without Him all is
  darkness. Every period has its manias. I regard
  atheism as mania. It is the malady of the age.
  You could take my skin from me more easily than
  my faith in God.

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• Contrary to Dan Browns thinking, there would be
  no modern science without men of deep belief in
  the God of the Bible. Men who knew there were
  discoveries to be made because they knew the one
  true God of the Bible Who is the Creator of
  order, symmetry, predictability, purpose,
  function, life, design and beauty.

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• The things that scientists (and we average folks)
  observe in this universe, the creation by the God
  of the Bible, help us to understand the invisible
  attributes of the Creator.
• The universe screams of the existence of its
  Almighty Creator!

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SOME IDEAS FROM KURT WISE, Ph.D., GEOLOGY, HARVARD

• OBSERVABLE THINGS
• Anthropic Principle
• Regularity (laws,rules)
• 3-dimensionality
• Heisenberg Uncertainty principle
• Electromagnetic force constant
• Comprehensibility

• INVISIBLE THINGS
• It appears that the universe was made with man in
  mind!

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Hot to cold
• Complex to less complexity
• To reverse 2nd Law need energy, energy converter
  and a blueprint (design)

• Energy Source
• Energy Converter
• Blueprint or plan (intelligence)
• Must be transcendent to the universe

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• CHAOS THEORY
• We cant predict what might happen next because
  we dont have enough knowledge. To predict you
  must know and understand every- thing about
  everything.
• Your local Weatherman?

• To design and support a delicately balanced
  universe requires all knowledge and all power.

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• Language DNA has every earmark of a language. 4
  nucleo- tides code for 20 amino acids which code
  1000s of pro- teins. Alphabets 26 letters code
  many words, codes infinite concepts.

• DNA is language
• Language requires intelligence, therefore DNA
  had an intelligent cause.
• DNA SUGGESTS AN INFINITELY INTELLIGENT
  COMMUNICATOR!

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• Law of Cause and Effect If something happens
  there is a cause. Therefore the beginning of the
  universe must have had a Cause.

• The Cause of the beginning of the universe must
  have been outside of the universe in order to
  cause it The Uncaused, Transcendent Cause.

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• The universe contains time, there- fore its Cause
  must be outside of time.

• The Cause would be independent of time and
  therefore eternal and unchanging.

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• The universe contains all things physical and
  material therefore the Cause must not be material.

• The Cause is immaterial / non-physical.

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• The universe contains all of space, therefore the
  Cause is not constrained by nor limited by space.

• The Cause is immanent (here) and
• transcendent (out there).
• See Nehemiah 913 Then You came down on Mount
  Sinai here, And spoke with them from heaven
  out there

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• Ideas come into being as conceptions and then
  choices of the will.

• The universe must be the choice of a persons
  will.

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• The principle of symmetry and beauty.
• Perhaps an example would be the gaps in the
  periodic table that suggested missing elements
  which were later found.

• The Cause of the universe must be one of symmetry
  and incredible beauty!

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OBSERVABLE INVISIBLE THINGS
THINGS

• The Law of Simplicity
• A simplicity principle runs through the universe.
• More often than not the simplest idea is the
  right one. It looks as if there is a single,
  unifying cause in the universe.

• ONE CAUSE

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Observation of the universe brings you to the
conclusion that it is the consequence

• of a personal choice of a single, transcen-
  dent, immanent, non-physical, eternal,
  unchanging, all powerful, all knowing, incredibly
  beautiful individual who had man in mind from the
  very beginning.
• We can infer a Creator Who is personal from
  observations of the creation!
• The Biblical Creator IS Lord Jesus Christ!
• See John 1 Colossians 1 Hebrews 1

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• The Da Vinci Code denies the deity of the Lord
  Jesus Christ!

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THE BIBLE CALLS JESUS, THEOS.

• Hebrews 18
• But unto the Son Jesus he saith, Thy
  throne, O God Theos, is for ever and ever a
  sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy
  kingdom.
• Jesus is called Theos (God) seven times in the
  New Testament.

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THE BIBLE CALLS JESUS, THEOS.Matthew 45-7

• 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy
  city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the
  temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son
  of God, cast thyself down for it is written, He
  shall give his angels charge concerning thee and
  in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at
  any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7
  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou
  shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Theos.

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The Lord Jesus Christ is God--Theos.

• In spite of what Dan Brown says in his fiction
  book, The Da Vinci Code, the Lord Jesus Christ is
  not just a man, He is God in the flesh! Jesus is
  Theos.

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

• 7,000,000 copies sold in 1st year.
• More than a year on NY Times best seller list.
• On every best seller list in America.
• Estimated 30,000,000 readers 1st year.
• Translated into 35 languages 1st year.
• Discussed in colleges, high schools, businesses,
  neighborhoods, homes, etc.

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The Da Vinci Code

• Movie Rights sold to Columbia Pictures for
  6,000,000. (May 06 release?)
• Movie is directed by Ron Howard.
• Has been the cover story of US News and World
  Report, Time, Newsweek.
• Articles have appeared on every major Internet
  news service.

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Da Vinci Code FICTION?

• This book attacks all the major doctrines of the
  Bible.
• It slanders the identity of the Lord Jesus.
• The book attacks the historical, orthodox
  foundations of true, Biblical Christianity.
• The author says the novel is fiction.
• Page one begins with Fact in bold font.
• Page one ends with All descriptions of art
  work, architecture, documents and secret rituals
  in this novel are accurate. says Brown
• Brown distorts fact to produce fiction!

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Charlie Gibson interviewed Brown on Good Morning
America

• Gibson If you were writing it The Da Vinci
  Code as a nonfiction book, how would it have
  been different?
• Brown I dont think it would haveit is
  important to remember this is a novel about a
  theory that has been out there for a long time.
• Good Morning America, Nov. 3, 2003

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Da Vinci Code FICTION?

• On the publishers credits page in the front of
  The Da Vinci Code is this statement All of the
  characters and events in this book are
  fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
• Yet on page one under Fact are listed The
  Priory of Sion, Pariss Bibliotheque Nationale,
  Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, Leonardo
  da Vinci and Les Dossiers Secrets.
• Fact is immediately labeled fiction.

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THE FIRST PAGE AFTER THE TITLE PAGE READS

• F a c t
• The Priory of Siona European secret society
  founded in 1099-is a real organization.
• In 1975 Pariss Bibliotheque Nationale
  discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers
  Secrets, identifying numerous members of the
  Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton,
  Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci.
• The Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei is a

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• deeply devout Catholic sect that has been the
  topic of recent controversy due to reports of
  brainwashing, coercion, and a dangerous practice
  known as corporeal mortification. Opus Dei has
  just completed construction of a 47 million
  National Headquarters at 243 Lexington Avenue in
  New York City.
• All descriptions of artwork, architecture,
  documents, and secret rituals in this novel are
  accurate.

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Brown distorts truth to make fiction!

• For example There really is an organization
  called Opus Dei.
• But Brown so thoroughly misrepresents Opus Dei in
  The Da Vinci Code that at this writing this
  organization is contemplating a law suit against
  Brown and his publisher.
• For example Opus Dei has no assassin monks.

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By the way

• According to a BBC documentary, Les Dossiers
  Secrets were clandestinely placed in the
  Bibliotheque Nationale by a man named Pierre
  Plantard. Mr. Plantard fabricated the documents
  including the genealogical tables and lists of
  the Priorys grand mastersNewton, Botticelli,
  Leonardo, and so on.
• See McDowell, Josh, The Da Vinci Code A Quest
  for Answers (Holiday FL Green Key Books, 2006),
  p. 5.
• The 1099 date appears to be a fabrication of Dan
  Brown--1950s is more likely!

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Da Vinci Code NON- FICTION?

• Brown presents Church History, Ancient
  Manuscripts, Archaeology, Canonicity, Theology,
  etc., and then distorts and misrepresents their
  historical and traditional meaning and
  understanding as taught by the true church down
  through the ages.
• True history is twisted into a Gnostic/New Age
  worldview interpretation.

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BROWNS TWISTED HISTORY

• The third major character of the book, Leigh
  Teabing, says, These are photo copies of the Nag
  Hammadi and Dead Sea Scrolls,The earliest
  Christian records. Troublingly, they do not match
  up with the gospels in the Bible.
• Attention The Scrolls are NOT a Christian
  document.
• Dead Sea Scrolls 225 Old Testament
  Manuscripts which never mention Jesus or
  Christianity since the Essenes were a Jewish
  sect. They in no way contradict the NT Gospels.

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BROWNS TWISTED HISTORY

• The Nag Hammadi texts were found in 1945.
• The actual authors are not known.
• They contain none of the books of the N.T.
• The Nag Hammadi texts are early Gnostic.
• Brown presents these spurious texts as more
  accurate and authoritative than N.T. Gospels.
• Brown claims 80 gospels total, but there are
  actually only 4 or 5 other than Matt., Mk., Lk.,
  J.
• Brown likes the Gospels of Thomas and Phillip.

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BROWNS TWISTED HISTORY

• Brown quotes the Gospel According to Phillip,
  And the companion of the Saviour is Mary
  Magdalene. Christ loved her more than all the
  disciples . The rest of the disciples were
  offended by it and expressed disapproval. They
  said to him, Why do you love her more than all
  of us?
• This is Browns primary proof that Jesus and Mary
  Magdalene were married (See p.246).
• The Bible is not true, but spurious documents
  like the Gospel According to Phillip are true?

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AND ANOTHER THING

• According to Dr. Bentley Layton, an authority on
  these Gnostic gospels, the Gospel According to
  Phillip was written around A. D. 350.
• See Bently, Layton, The Gnostic
  Scriptures (NY Doubleday, 1987), p.326
• This is more than 250 years after the Biblical
  Gospels were written.
• Should we not better trust the Gospels written
  closer to the actual historical happenings?
• Does Dan Brown edit the Bible?

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REVELATION 2218-19

• 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the
  words of the prophecy of this book, If any man
  shall add unto these things, God shall add unto
  him the plagues that are written in this book 19
  And if any man shall take away from the words of
  the book of this prophecy, God shall take away
  his part out of the book of life, and out of the
  holy city, and from the things which are written
  in this book.

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Why did Brown write The Da Vinci Code?

• Brown has said in interviews that his purpose was
  not to just write a fictional novel, but to
  promote his own understanding of Christianity and
  spirituality.
• As far as I can tell, Brown seems to have a New
  Age-Eastern-Gnostic type of personal spirituality
  which is by no means evangelical-fundamental-Bible
  believing-orthodox Christianity (if his writings
  are accurately displaying his true beliefs as he
  claims).

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CHRISTIANS WE MUST DEFEND TRUE BIBLICAL FAITH

• Acts 1717
• Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the
  Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the
  market daily with them that met with him.

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CHRISTIANS WE MUST DEFEND TRUE BIBLICAL FAITH

• Acts 184
• And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath,
  and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

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CHRISTIANS WE MUST DEFEND TRUE BIBLICAL FAITH

• Acts 198
• And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly
  for the space of three months, disputing and
  persuading the things concerning the kingdom of
  God.

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WHAT DOES THE DA VINCI CODE TEACH?

• Leonardo Da Vinci hid coded messages in his
  paintings, especially in the famous fresco The
  Last Supper.
• Jesus right arm forms a V with the leaning body
  of John supposedly code for goddess worship.
• John in the fresco is actually Mary
  Magdalenewife of Jesus (according to Brown).

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SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND

• Leonardo da Vinci was not present at the Last
  Supperhe was not an eye witness!

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And something else

• There is no historical record that Mary Magdalene
  was sitting next to Jesus at the last supper, but
  what if she wasthat would not prove to us that
  she and Jesus were married. And if she was
  married to Jesus, why would she be leaning on
  another man?

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The Last Supper Holy Grail?

• In the 12th and 13th centuries the Holy Grail was
  believed to be the cup that Jesus used at the
  last supper and miracles surrounded it.
• In Browns novel the grail is not the cup.
• The bones of Mary Magdalene are the grail and
  were hidden with secret documents.
• For about the 1st 400 years of the church the
  Christians did not believe Jesus to be God.
  Jesus was a mortal man, married to Mary and they
  had a daughter named Sarah (p. 244).

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Brown pulls two actual daVinci quotes totally out
of context to convince his readers that da Vinci
detested the Bible.

• Quote 1 Many have made a trade of delusions and
  false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.
• In context da Vinci is talking about alchemists
  who claimed they could turn lead into gold.
• Quote 2 Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O!
  Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
• In Context da Vinci is referring to the
  foolishness of what he called mens own
  opinions, lascivious joys. and vain
  splendor--Not against the Bible
• See Richard Abanes, The
  Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code

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The book begins with a murder.

• The curator of the Louvre (Paris museum) is
  murdered a few hours before the novels male
  hero, Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious
  Symbology, Harvard University, is due to meet
  with him.
• The female star in the book is the murder
  victims granddaughter, Sophie Neveu, a
  cryptologist. goddess Sophia popular, 2006
• Before he died the murder victim had positioned
  himself like Da Vincis Vitruvian Man.

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• The French police think Langdon is the murderer
  due to a message written on the floor by the
  curator before he died.
• Sophie and Langdon flee to England just a step
  ahead of the French police and a Catholic monk
  assassin of Opus Dei who will stop at nothing to
  keep Sophie and Langdon from finding the Holy
  Grail.
• The true secret of the Holy Grail (Mary M.s
  bones) and goddess worship has been kept hidden
  by the male leadership of the Catholic church for
  1700 years, according to the novel.

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• The novel teaches that Jesus gave the leadership
  of the church to Mary Magdalene before He died.
• Peter became jealous of Mary and started a rumor
  that she had been a prostitute.
• Peter discredited Mary so that he could take over
  the leadership of the church. The male church
  leaders then abolished goddess worship.

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AS BROWNS NOVEL ENDS

• The main male character, Robert Langdon, is on
  his knees worshipping the bones of Mary M.
• The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to
  kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A
  journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.
  With a sudden upwelling of reverence, Robert
  Langdon fell to his knees. For a moment, he
  thought he heard a womans voicethe wisdom of
  the ageswhispering up from the chasms of the
  earth. italics Browns, p.454

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• Throughout The Da Vinci Code Brown attempts to
  discredit, denigrate, cast dispersions upon and
  destroy true, historical, Biblical Christianity.
• But what is Brown left with?worshipping and
  praying to the bones of Mary Magdalene!
• True, undistorted Christianity has no bones to
  worship because our Lord and Savior, Jesus
  Christ, resurrected after His death and took His
  bones and resurrected body into heaventhe tomb
  in Jerusalem is emptyno bones!
• See Crucifixion and Resurrection at
  www.biblicaldiscipleship.org

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GALATIANS 16-9

• 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
  that called you into the grace of Christ unto
  another gospel 7. Which is not another but
  there be some that trouble you, and would pervert
  the gospel of Christ. 8. But though we, or an
  angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
  you than that which we have preached unto you,
  let him be accursed. 9. As we said before, so say
  I now again, If any man preach any other gospel
  unto you than that ye have received, let him be
  accursed.

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Are the ideas of Browns book original with him?

• None of the ideas Brown expresses in The Da Vinci
  Code regarding the Lord Jesus, Mary Magdalene,
  the Bible, Church History, etc are original with
  him!
• Browns ideas are rooted in the teachings and
  writings of radical, liberal theologians and
  professors on the faculties of some of the most
  prestigious academic institutions in the world.
• Many of Browns ideas have earlier been
  published by the heretical Jesus Seminar.

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THE JESUS SEMINAR

• The Jesus Seminar is a controversial group of
  about 200 scholars from some of the most
  prestigious universities in the world.
• These scholars claim that Jesus only said about
  18 of what is recorded in the Gospels that Jesus
  actually did say.
• The Jesus Seminar has been referenced in Time,
  Newsweek, NY Times, etc.
• In recent years the Jesus Seminar has been
  attempting to redefine Christianity as a New
  Age-Gnostic spiritual system.

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• The heresies, distortions and lies of the Jesus
  Seminar with all their New Age, Eastern, Gnostic
  ideas are now being foisted upon the unsuspecting
  public by a man named Dan Brown by means of his
  thriller novel, The Da Vinci Code.
• Does Dan Brown ever reference The Jesus Seminar?
  Did he plagiarize?

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• At the time of this writing Dan Brown and his
  publisher are being sued by the authors of Holy
  Blood, Holy Grail because, they claim, Brown
  plagiarized the plot of their book.

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THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
I Peter 315
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and
be ready always to give an answer to every man
that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in
you with meekness and fear.
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JOHN 832

• And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
  make you free.

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JOHN 1717-19

• 17 Sanctify them through thy truth thy word is
  truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world,
  even so have I also sent them into the world. 19
  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they
  also might be sanctified through the truth.

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WE CHRISTIANS MUST CLEARLY UNDERSTAND WHAT WE
BELIEVE!

• We must defend the faith.
• We must articulate the fundamentals of our
  Christian Faith.
• We must be able to thoughtfully, reasonably and
  biblically explain and persuade those within our
  sphere of influence the truth about our Lord
  Jesus and His Word.

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MATTHEW 1613-16

• 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea
  Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do
  men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they
  said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist
  some, Elias and others, Jeremias, or one of the
  prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye
  that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said,
  Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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II PETER 116

• 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised
  fables (Browns book is cunningly devised fable),
  when we made known unto you the power and coming
  of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses
  of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the
  Father honour and glory, when there came such a
  voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my
  beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And
  this voice which came from heaven we heard, when
  we were with him in the holy mount.

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I JOHN 15-7

• 5 This then is the message which we have heard of
  him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and
  in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we
  have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
  we lie, and do not the truth 7 But if we walk in
  the light, as he is in the light, we have
  fellowship one with another, and the blood of
  Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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COLOSSIANS 28-10

• 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through
  philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition
  of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not
  after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the
  fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are
  complete in him, which is the head of all
  principality and power.

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• LESSER SHADES OF DARKNESS DO NOT EXPOSE THE
  DARKNESS!!!!!

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PHILIPPIANS 25-11

• 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in
  Christ Jesus 6 Who, being in the form of God,
  thought it not robbery to be equal with God 7
  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon
  him the form of a servant, and was made in the
  likeness of men 8 And being found in fashion as
  a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient
  unto death, even the death of the cross. 9
  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
  given him a name which is above every name 10
  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
  of things in heaven, and things in earth, and
  things under the earth 11 And that every tongue
  should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
  glory of God the Father.

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More on the deity of Lord Jesus

• Romans 95
• Hebrews 18
• John 11
• John 114
• I Timothy 316
• Philippians 211
• Romans 109

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BROWNS BOOK BRINGS UP QUESTIONS ABOUT
CHRISTIANITY

• Why werent other books like the Gospel of Thomas
  or the Gospel of Phillip included in the Canon of
  Scripture?
• How do we know that the books of the Bible are
  inspired and these other books are not inspired?
• How do we know that Jesus did not have children
  with Mary Magdalene?
• How do we know that what Christians believe today
  is what the early Christians believed?

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BROWNS BOOK BRINGS UP QUESTIONS ABOUT
CHRISTIANITY

• According to Brown, we Christians have been
  deceived and duped into believing that Jesus
  Christ is Gods only Son and the Savior of the
  world. Jesus was just a man who got married and
  had children and may/may not have died on a
  cross.
• But the Biblical historical record says as Jesus
  was on the cross, He said, It is finished
  and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.
• Most historians do not question the Cross event.

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• Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the
  life no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
  John 146
• In talking about Jesus the Bible says Neither
  is there salvation in any other for there is
  none other name under heaven given among men,
  whereby we must be saved. Acts 412
• There is a reason for this Only the Creator
  would have the right and the authority to redeem
  His particular creature!
• The Creator is Jesus! See John 1 Colossians 1
  Hebrews 1 therefore He has the right and the
  authority to redeem His creationhumans.

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BROWNS BOOK BRINGS UP QUESTIONS ABOUT
CHRISTIANITY

• Brown, through his main character, Langdon,
  claims he can present thousands of ancient
  documents as scientific evidence that the New
  Testament is false testimony p. 341.
• Every faith in the world is based on
  fabrication p. 341.
• Of course this means that the faith-based
  religious system presented in Dan Browns book is
  a fabrication.

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JOHN 1423

• Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love
  me, he will keep my words and my Father will
  love him, and we will come unto him, and make our
  abode with him.

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WE HAVE A PROBLEM--

• The first exposure to Christianity for millions
  of people around the world is now Dan Browns
  novel The Da Vinci Code.
• Millions of people are getting a false 1st
  impression of Christianity via Dan Browns book
  with all its distortions and fabrications.

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• The New Age-Eastern-Gnostic ideas are rapidly
  gaining popular support in the West, due in part
  to Dan Browns book.
• For more information please read the thesis A
  Theological Analysis of the New Age Movement at
  www.biblicaldiscipleship.org.
• The movie, The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron
  Howard, will give global attention to the false
  religious views presented by Dan Brown.

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Another example of Browns deceptions in The Da
Vinci Code

• The Jewish tetragrammaton YHWHthe sacred name
  of God--in fact derived from Jehovah, an
  androgynous physical union between the masculine
  Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah.
  (p. 309)
• 1) YHWH was not derived from Jehovah. The term
  predates Jehovah by thousands of years. Brown
  reversed it. Jehovah was derived from YHWH.
  Jehovah is a 16th century Latinized form of
  YHWH. See Abanes, The Truth Behind the Da Vinci
  Code

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• union between the masculine Jah and the
  pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah.
• Havah is definitely not a pre-Hebraic name for
  Eve! Havah is a Hebrew form of the name Eve and
  occurs in this form in the Old Testament.
  See Genesis 320 41
• Since Havah occurs in the Old Testament Hebrew
  it is obviously not pre-Hebraic.
• Has Dan Brown lied to us or did he just not know?
  

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And one more thing

• Brown seems to want his readers to believe that
  da Vinci worshipped the goddess and merged the
  male into the female in Mona Lisa.
• Brown claims da Vinci named the Mona Lisa by
  combining the Egyptian fertility God, Amon, with
  the goddess of fertility, Isiswhose ancient
  pictogram was once called LISA. Mona Lisa.
  See The Da Vinci Code page 120, 121.
• Problem Continued on the next slide

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PROBLEM

• Da Vinci did not name the Mona Lisa!
• The Mona Lisa was first named by Giorgio Vasari
  in his 1550 book, Lives of Artists.
• Vasari first called the painting Monna Lisa.
• It simply means Madame Lisa and probably refers
  to Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, whom many
  believe, was probably da Vincis model.

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• Brothers and Sisters in Christ, can we defend the
  faith! Can we give reasons for the hope we have
  in our resurrected Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  Does our lifestyle reflect purity, integrity and
  godliness? Or are we hypocrites?
• The Bible says every person has sinned and fallen
  short of the glory of God. (Romans 323)
• For the wages of sin is death but the gift of
  God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
  Lord. (Romans 623)

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• But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
  while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  (Romans 58)
• That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
  Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
  God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
  saved. (Romans 109)
• For there is no difference between the Jew and
  the Greek for the same Lord over all is rich
  unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever
  shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
  saved. (Romans 1012-13)

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• God might shew the exceeding riches of his
  grace in his kindness toward us through Christ
  Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith
  and that not of yourselves it is the gift of
  God 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
  10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
  ordained that we should walk in them.
  (Ephesians 27b-10)

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• 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his
  only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
  him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
  17 For God sent not his Son into the world to
  condemn the world but that the world through him
  might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is
  not condemned but he that believeth not is
  condemned already, because he hath not believed
  in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19
  And this is the condemnation, that light is come
  into the world, and men loved darkness rather
  than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For
  every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
  neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
  should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth
  cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made
  manifest, that they are wrought in God.
• John 316-21