Da Vinci: Round 2

I'm going to do this Da Vinci thing in installments for a number of reasons. 1.) I'm too tired right now to write more than just a little, and 2.) I'm not that interested in it anymore, now that I've moved on to reading Ryrie's book on Dispensationalism.

Anyway, like I said, I'm pretty exhausted, so I definitely do not trust my grammar, spelling, and syntax right about now. However, I will point out one of the greatest flaws of the book's argument-- something that shoots the premise to pieces, once you apply simple logic to the "facts" presented by the author.

The book states that:
1.) Jesus was not divine, His deity was a myth created by Constantine (don't even get me started on Brown's completely false portrayal of Emporer Constantine); Jesus was only human, but possibly one of the greatest teachers to walk the earth (same old lie that's been propogated since the Pharisees told the Romans to post a guard at the tomb)
2.) Mary Magdelene was not a former prostitute that Jesus redeemed; she was a woman of Jerusalem who had great influence and power and who was married to Jesus, with whom she gave birth to a daughter. Mary Magdelene is the Holy Grail of legend because she was the "chosen vessel" of Christ (to bear the seed) and therefore is the culmination of the age-old concept of "The Sacred Feminine" (the belief that nature advocates the near-deity status of the female gender; and that man can only acheive true knowledge of God by having sex with woman-- in the orgasm he sees God). Basically, Mary Magdelene, a normal woman, is special because she was chosen by Christ.

Here's where this argument breaks down: If we grant the (heretical and bogus) assumption that Jesus was only a man, how in the world does that make his "choosing" of Mary Magdelene to be His wife significant?!? If Mary Magdelene is only a woman, and yet she is to be worshipped as the Holy Grail (which is what the book advocates) because she is chosen by Christ, then there must be something more significant to the person of Christ other than the fact that he was a great teacher. You cannot have both facts-- they are incompatible. Either Christ was God, and His choosing of Mary made her special (and therefore praiseworthy) or Christ was a normal human and Mary was a normal human and therefore, neither one is to be worshipped. All througout the novel, Brown equivocates and ignores this contradiction, presenting as "fact" what he wants the reader to believe.


Fortunately, I've got the inside track on the truth. Yep, I know the answer. 1.) Jesus didn't get married, and he didn't father a child-- read the Bible. Not an ounce of truth to Brown's claims. 2.) Jesus is God-- read Colossians and Ephesians. 3.) Mary Magdelene was a grateful sinner who had been forgiven by her Savior. Their relationship was that of a sheep to a Shepherd. Not a wife to a husband.

That's pretty much all I've got to say for now.