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Title: A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO THE DA VINCI CODE


1
A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TOTHE DA VINCI CODE
  • BIBLICAL CLAIMS
  • Dr. Tim Johnson
  • NASHOTAH HOUSE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

2
INTRODUCTIONS
  • THOSE NOT IN ATTENDANCE LAST WEEK
  • --NAME
  • --OCCUPATION
  • --HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT
  • THE COURSE?

3
CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE
  • 1 PETER 315-17
  • BUT IN YOUR HEARTS REGARD CHRIST THE
  • LORD AS HOLY, ALWAYS BEING PREPARED TO
  • MAKE A DEFENSE TO ANYONE WHO ASKS YOU
  • FOR A REASON FOR THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU
  • YET DO IT WITH GENTLENESS AND RESPECT, HAVING A
  • GOOD CONSCIENCE, SO THAT, WHEN YOU ARE
  • SLANDERED, THOSE WHO REVILE YOUR GOOD BEHAVIOR
  • IN CHRIST MAY BE PUT TO SHAME.
  • --ESV

4
CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE
  • KEY PRINCIPLES
  • BE PREPARED
  • CHRISTIANITY OFFERS HOPE
  • HOW WE PROCLAIM IT IS IMPORTANT
  • --WITH GENTLENESS
  • --WITH RESPECT
  • --SERVES AS A WITNESS

5
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • Da Vinci Code
  • The Bible is a product of man, my dear. Not
    of God.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 231
  • the New Testament is false
  • testimonyevery faith in the world is based
  • on fabrication.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 341

6
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • Christian Response
  • 2 TIMOTHY 316
  • ALL SCRIPTURE IS BREATHED OUT BY GOD AND
    PROFITABLE FOR TEACHING FOR REPROOF, FOR
    CORRECTION, AND FOR TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
  • --ESV

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AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • Christian Response
  • 2 PETER 121
  • FOR NO PROPHECY WAS EVER PRODUCED
  • BY THE WILL OF MAN, BUT MEN SPOKE
  • FROM GOD AS THEY WERE CARRIED
  • ALONG BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
  • --ESV

8
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • ANGLICAN CATECHISM
  • Q Why do we call the Holy Scriptures the
  • Word of God?
  • A We call them the word of God because God
  • inspired their human authors and because God
    still
  • speaks to us through the Bible.

9
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • ANGLICAN ARTICLES OF RELIGION
  • ARTICLE VI.
  • OF THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
  • FOR SALVATION
  • Holy Scripture containeth all things
  • necessary to salvation

10
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • Orthodox Principles
  • God-breathed, not a human invention.
  • Useful for
  • --Teaching
  • --REPROOF
  • --CORRECTION
  • --Training in righteousness
  • Sufficient for Salvation.

11
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • Da Vinci Code
  • History has never had a definitive
  • version of the book.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 231

12
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
  • Christian Response
  • No book has been copied more carefully over the
    millennia than the Bible.
  • Some 24,000 MSS, part or whole, exist today and
    testify to its importance.
  • Isaiah Scroll at Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls)
  • The ½ truth.

13
SPEAKING OF QUMRAN
  • Da Vinci Code
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in
  • the 1950s hidden in a cave near Qumran in the
    Judean desert.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 234
  • There are photocopies of the Nag Hamadi and
    Dead Sea ScrollsThe earliest Christian
    records.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 245

14
SPEAKING OF QUMRAN
  • Christian Response
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in either the
    Winter of 1946 or the Spring of 1947.
  • The Community was an apocalyptic Jewish group,
    perhaps monastic in nature.
  • The scrolls date from 250 BC to 70 AD.
  • No New Testament or Christian MSS found.
  • See Geza Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls
    in English.

15
DONT FORGET.
  • Da Vinci Code
  • All descriptions of artwork,
  • architecture, documents, and secret
  • rituals in this novel are accurate.
  • --Da Vinci Code, Fact Page

16
QUMRAN MOVIE
  • 30-MINUTE MOVIE ON
  • THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

17
BREAK
  • PLEASE TAKE A
  • 20-MINUTE BREAK
  • HELP YOURSELF TO SNACKS AND BEVERAGES UPSTAIRS

18
ORIGINAL SIN
  • Da Vinci Code
  • 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.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 238

19
ORIGINAL SIN
  • Christian Response
  • Apple? The Hebrew reads fruit of the tree.
  • Two ½ truths
  • --Original Sin is not a biblical term
  • --Genesis 312the woman whom you
  • gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the
    tree, and I ate.

20
ORIGINAL SIN
  • ANGLICAN CATECHISM
  • Q What is sin?
  • A Sin is the seeking of our own will
  • instead of the will of God, thus
  • distorting our relationship with God, with
  • other people, and with all creation.

21
ORIGINAL SIN
  • Christian Response
  • Theologically speaking, humanity is
  • responsible for and participates in
  • original sin, but humans did not create the
  • concept for political or ecclesiastical
  • purposes as intimated in The Da Vinci Code.

22
HOUSE OF BENJAMIN
  • Da Vinci Code
  • Mary Magdalenewas of the House of
  • Benjaminof royal descent, who was, recast
    as a whore in order to erase evidence of her
    powerful family ties.
  • Da Vinci Code, 248-249

23
HOUSE OF BENJAMIN
  • Christian Response
  • Benjamin was the youngest of Jacobs 12 sons
  • The name of one of the 12 regions in ancient
    Israel located north of Jerusalem, see map.

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HOUSE OF BENJAMIN
  • Christian Response
  • Israels first king, Saul, was a Benjaminite (1
    Samuel 921).
  • Many associate this tribe with the Northern
    tribes.
  • Northern Kingdom falls in 722 BC

26
HOUSE OF BENJAMIN
  • Christian Response
  • Northern Kingdom is never restored.
  • Benjamin actually sided with Judah during the
    Division (1 Kings 1221).
  • The Apostle Paul was from Benjamin, never claimed
    royal descent (Romans 111).
  • Complete fabrication

27
Q
  • Da Vinci Code
  • Also rumored to be part of the treasure is
  • the legendary Q Documenta manuscript
  • that even the Vatican admits they believe
  • exists. Allegedly, it is a book of Jesus
  • teachings, possibly written in His own hand.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 256

28
Q
  • Christian Response
  • Q is a hypothetical document that scholars
    think Matthew and Luke used to write their
    gospels.
  • Seeks to solve The Synoptic Problem.
  • Most scholars, including Roman Catholic scholars,
    acknowledge it could have existed, but no
    physical evidence exists.

29
Q
  • Christian Response
  • No reputable scholar believes Jesus penned
    this not even on the internet!
  • Evidence from Church Fathers supports a different
    theory to explain the problem.
  • See Raymond Brown, An Introduction to the New
    Testament, 116-122, for a balanced overview of
    the issue.

30
SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Da Vinci Code
  • Langdons Jewish students always looked
  • flabbergasted when he first told them that
  • the early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic
  • sex. In the Temple, no less.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 309

31
SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Christian Response
  • No American novel is complete without some sex.
  • If Langdon were a real person, he might have been
    stoned to death for suggesting something so
    sacrilegious!

32
SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Christian Response
  • No evidence for such a claim, not even in 1 or 2
    Maccabees during the abomination of desolation.
    (175 BC - 143 BC)

33
MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Da Vinci Code
  • Early Jews believed that the Holy of Holies
    in Solomons Temple housed not only God but also
    his powerful female equal, Shekinah. Men
    seeking spiritual wholeness came to the Temple to
    visit priestessesor hieroduleswith whom they
    made love and experienced the divine through
    physical union.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 309

34
MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Christian Response
  • Where do I start.?
  • The Holy of Holies was the innermost room of the
    Tabernacle and both of the Temples (960 BC and
    516 BC).
  • Only the High Priest entered but once a year
    during Yom Kippur.

35
MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Solomons Temple A Rendering

36
MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Christian Response
  • Shekinah is a Hebrew noun derived from the verb,
    shakan (Nk), which means to dwell.
  • The word shekinah is not found in either the OT
    or the NT and connotes dwelling.
  • It is of post-biblical origin having been used in
    the Targums and Rabbinic literature and means
    that which dwells.

37
MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE
  • Christian Response
  • The concept of Shekinah is prevalent in the
    Bible, however (1 Kings 810).
  • All known noun forms have grammatical gender of
    masculine.

38
EVEN MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE!
  • Da Vinci Code
  • The Jewish tetragrammaton YHWH
  • the sacred name of Godin fact derived from
    Jehovah, an androgynous physical union between
    the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for
    Eve, Havah.
  • --Da Vinci Code, 309

39
EVEN MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE!
  • Christian Response
  • Oh my
  • The four consonants together, YHWH is called the
    tetragrammaton, see Exodus 314 regarding the
    burning bush.
  • Jehovah is derived from YHWH, sort of, not the
    reverse.

40
EVEN MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE!
  • Christian Response
  • Jehovah is an artificial name made up of the
    tetragrammaton, YHWH, and the vowels in Adonai.
  • YaHoWaiH Jahovaih Jehovah
  • This word represents a hypothetical way of
    pronouncing the tetragrammaton
  • There is no fusion of two words.

41
EVEN MORE SEX IN THE TEMPLE!
  • Christian Response
  • The etymology of YHWH is based on the Hebrew
    word, hyh (Haya), which means being, or
    existence.
  • YHWH connotes, the one who is. His name is
    ontologically-based, not sexually contrived.

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NEXT WEEK
  • Dr. Donald Rappe
  • Mount Mary College
  • Who Was Mary Magdalene
  • Offers a biblical and extra-biblical portrait of
    Mary of Magdala
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