Title: The Da Vinci Code Exposed
1The Da Vinci Code Exposed
Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
June 4, 2006
2- Dan Brown, former school teacher, author of
several books of fiction - On New York Times Best Seller list, sold 46
million copies in 40 languages - There are nearly 50 books debunking the Da Vinci
Code book
3I. The Plot...
- Secular author promoting a Humanistic World-View.
4- A Harvard Professor Langdon receives an urgent
call from the police for help. The Curator of an
Art Museum has been found murdered with a
mysterious encrypted message written in his
blood... hence the search for the secret of the
Holy Grail begins...
5Secret, Higher Knowledge?
6- Did Da Vinci really use his art to communicate
secret knowledge? - Is it true the Gospels dont tell us the true
story of Jesus? - Why do we only have 4 Gospels instead of 80 as
Brown stated? - Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene and had a
baby? - Did Jesus really designate Mary Magdalene to head
His church? - Is the legend of the Holy Grail actually the
blood line of Christ?
7- Quote from page 1 of the The Da Vinci Code
book... - "FACT Â Â All descriptions of artwork,
architecture, documents and secret rituals in
this novel are accurate."
8- The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is part
of the historical record.
FALSE
FALSE
The Bible is a product of a man, my dear, not of
God... Page 231
Leigh Teabing
9FACTS FICTION FACTION
- We are all entitled to our opinions, but we are
not entitled to our own facts
10It was a quick romp, largely fun to read, if
rather predictable and preachy. This is a good
airplane book, a novelistic thriller that
presents a rummage sale of accurate historical
nuggets alongside falsehoods and misleading
statements.
Margaret M.Mitchell
Associate Professor of NT at University of
Chicago Divinity School
11II. The Problem...
- Attempts to Dethrone God while Deifying man.
12(Gnostic Gospels... Mary, Philip, Judas)
- Gnosticism a special transcendent knowledge
beyond Christian doctrine known only by elites.
13Three Relentless Enemies
- 1. The World
- 1 John 519 We know that we are children of God,
and that the whole world is under the control of
the evil one.
14Three Relentless Enemies
- 1. The World
- 2. The Flesh
- Romans 87-8 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God.
- Galatians 517 For the sinful nature desires what
is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is
contrary to the sinful nature. They are in
conflict with each other, so that you do not do
what you want.
15Three Relentless Enemies
- 1. The World
- 2. The Flesh
- 3. The Devil
- Ephesians 611-12 11 Put on the full armor of God
so that you can take your stand against the
devil's schemes. 12 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.
16The Devil...
- 2 Corinthians 44 The god of this age has blinded
the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see
the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God. - 1 Peter 58 Be self-controlled and alert. Your
enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
looking for someone to devour.
17III. The Proof...
- Identify Counterfeit by knowing Truth.
18TRUTH...
- 1 John 221 I do not write to you because you do
not know the truth, but because you do know it
and because no lie comes from the truth. - John 831-32 ...If you hold to my teaching, you
are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know
the truth, and the truth will set you free."
19Be Assured of...
- The Authority of Gods Word!
- 2 Peter 121 for prophecy never came by the will
of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit. - 2 Timothy 316 All Scripture is God-breathed and
is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness,
20- Titus 12 a faith and knowledge resting on the
hope of eternal life, which God, who does not
lie, promised before the beginning of time,
21- Matthew 2435 Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will never pass away. - Matthew 518 I tell you the truth, until heaven
and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not
the least stroke of a pen, will by any means
disappear from the Law until everything is
accomplished.
22- John 1717 Sanctify them by the truth your word
is truth. - Romans 1017 So then faith comes by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.
23Be Assured of...
- The Divinity of Jesus Christ!
- John 11-3, 14 In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He
was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all
things were made without him nothing was made
that has been made... 14 The Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his
glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came
from the Father, full of grace and truth.
24- John 858 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered,
"before Abraham was born, I am!" - Matthew 123 "The virgin will be with child and
will give birth to a son, and they will call him
Immanuel"--which means, "God with us."
25Creed of Nicea quote,
- 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 - JESUS IS TRULY GOD!
26- John 1030-33 30 I and the Father are one." 31
Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 32
but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many
great miracles from the Father. For which of
these do you stone me?" 33 "We are not stoning
you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for
blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be
God." - John 2028 Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my
God!"
27Apparently in Johns Day some were being led
astray by Gnosticism...
28- 1 John 41-6 Beloved, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of
God because many false prophets have gone out
into the world. - 2 By this you know the Spirit of God Every
spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come
in the flesh is of God, - 3 and every spirit that does not confess that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.
And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which
you have heard was coming, and is now already in
the world...
29- 4 ...You are of God, little children, and have
overcome them, because He who is in you is
greater than he who is in the world. - 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as
of the world, and the world hears them. - 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us he
who is not of God does not hear us. By this we
know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
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