Da Vinci Code Myths

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Da Vinci Code Myths

• Jerry Sanderson

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Class Schedule and Information

• April 2nd May 21st (no class 4/16 or 514)
• 6 pm 715 pm
• Cost 5.00 (includes notebook materials)
• Test during last half of final class for credit

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Lesson One

• Who is Jesus?
• A prophet?
• A great teacher?
• A radical to shake-up existing social /
  political structures?
• A social activist proclaiming a socialist
  structure, a Great Society to alleviate
  poverty?
• God the Son?

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• The most important question you can ask and
  answer is Who is Jesus?
• How you answer that question will determine how
  you view the world, how you live your life and
  your eternal destination.
• Matthew 1613-17

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• The Da Vinci Code has an answer to the question,
  Who is Jesus?
• Is it the right answer?
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• The Da Vinci Code has been on the New York Times
  Bestseller list since 2003 and has been a best
  seller in over 150 countries.
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• Major movie coming out in May, directed by Ron
  Howard (Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man) and stars
  Tom Hanks

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Da Vinci Code Myths
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We need to remember

• Eph 612
• For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
  but against the rulers, against the authorities,
  against the powers of this dark world and against
  the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly
  realms.

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The DaVinci Code is..
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Conspiracy Theory
Conspiracy Theory
HOAX
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The Da Vinci Code has

• Problems with the Facts
• Problems with Logic
• Problems with its Conclusion

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• Conspiracy Theory Illustration
• FACTS
• 1 George W. Bush is a member of the Skull and
  
• Cross Bones Society of Yale.
• 2 Prince Abdula has visited the White House
  many
• times
• 3 George W. Bush tried to secretly get the UAE
  Port Deal
• in place
• 4 George W. Bush was in the oil business

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Prince Abdulla visits Bush Ranch
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Members of the Skull and Bones Society, based at
Yale University in Connecticut, have long held
power in the United States. Bonesmen have
included Presidents Taft and Bush and members of
the Supreme Court, CIA and Homeland Security
wrote Alexendra Robbins in the book "Secrets of
the Tomb. The Saudi royal family, the Bush
family, the Harrimans, Rockefellers... They
partnered with a terrorist regime that was at war
with America for three interrelated reasons
money, oil, and power. According to The truth
of the Skull and Crossbones.
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• initiates into the SS and The Order of Skull and
  Bones, are required to say the words It is an
  honor...
• When George W. Bush was asked, Did you have any
  qualms, say, about joining an elite secret club
  like Bones? Bush replied, I was honored

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Crossbones
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• Conclusion
• George W. Bush a paid pawn of Middle Eastern
  Sheiks set on helping Saudi Arabia and the United
  Arab Emirates take de-facto rule of the United
  States

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Da Vinci Code Facts

• Similarly the Da Vinci Code starts with facts
• Priory of Sion
• A secret society
• Opus Dei
• A Catholic Prelature
• Fiction / Novel

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• Novel Overview WARININGthis information will
  give away the surprise points in the plot.
• Priory of Sion is a secret organization
• Past members include
• Isaac Newton
• Botticelli
• Victor Hugo
• Leonardo Da Vinci.
• Opus Dei of the Catholic Church is determined to
  find the people who know the hidden truths and
  stop them.

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Hidden Truths

• Jesus was a great teacher, but merely a mortal
  man
• Mary Magdalene was one of the disciples
• She was married to Jesus
• They had children
• The Roman Emperor Constantine in a political move
  in 325 A.D. decided to unify Rome under a single
  religion, Christianity

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Hidden Truths continued

• The Church rewrote Christianity selecting only
  4 gospels out of 80  
• The Priory of Sion is a secret society dedicated
  to keeping alive the true secret of Jesus and
  Mary Magdalene.
• The Holy Grail isnt a cup it is a person, Mary
  Magdalene.
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• The Church, being male dominated suppressed the
  truth of the divine feminine.
• Legends of chivalric quests for the lost Grail
  were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find
  the lost sacred feminine.
• The Church subjugated woman, banished the sacred
  feminine

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Characters

• Jacques Sauniere - Curator of Louvre Museum in
  Paris

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Characters

• Robert Langdon - Harvard Professor of Religious
  Sects Icons

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Characters

• Bezu Fache - Captain French Judicial Police

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Characters

• Silas - Albino, societal outcast, convert to
  Catholicism

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Silas

• I must purge my soul of todays sins.Silas knew
  absolution required sacrificeHe examined the
  spiked cilice belt clamped around his thigh. All
  true followers of The Way wore this devicethat
  cut into the flesh as a perpetual reminder of
  Christs suffering.

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Characters continued

• Bishop Aringarosa - Catholic Bishop of Opus Dei

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Characters

• Sophie Neveu - French Police Cryptographer

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Characters

• Leigh Teabing - Religious Historian

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Leigh Teabing

• The Bible is a product of man, my dear. Not of
  God.
• Until that moment Council of Nicaea in
  history, Jesus was viewed by his followers as a
  mortal propheta great and powerful man, but a
  man nonetheless. A mortal.
• Almost everything our fathers taught us about
  Christ is false.

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Leigh Teabing continued

• Many scholars claim that the early Church
  literally stole Jesus from His original
  followers, hijacking His human message, shrouding
  it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity, and
  using it to expand their own power.
• The vast majority of educated Christians know
  the true history of their faith.

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Leigh Teabing continued

• The Grail is literally the ancient symbol for
  womanhood, and the Holy Grail represents the
  sacred feminine and the goddess, which of course
  has now been lost, virtually eliminated by the
  Church. The power of the female and her ability
  to produce life was one very sacred, but it posed
  a threat to the rise of the predominately male
  Church, and so the sacred feminine was demonized
  and called unclean.

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Leigh Teabing continued

• It was man, not God, who created the concept of
  original sin, whereby Eve tasted of the apple and
  caused the downfall of the human race..
• Consider Romans 512-14

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Some obvious issues with book

• Teabing Blames Christianity (New Testament)
• No reference AT ALL to
• Old Testament
• Original Sin, Eve deceived by Serpent
• Man Created First

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Teabing is a poor historian

• Sadly, Christian philosophy decided to embezzle
  the females creative power by ignoring
  biological truth and making the man the
  creator.Genesis was the beginning of the end for
  the goddess.

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More obvious problems

• Catholic Church is the only Christian
  denomination referenced, as if only it is the
  Church
• Teabing makes incorrect statements about
  reliability of scripture
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• Vast misrepresentation of Scripture

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Resources Used

• The Da Vinci Deception Erwin Lutzer
• Cracking Da Vincis Code James Garlow and Peter
  Jones
• Breaking the Da Vinci Code Darrell Bock
• Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code Bart
  Ehrman
• A Quest for Answers The Da Vinci Code by Josh
  McDowell