A publishing phenomenon

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The Da Vinci Code
A publishing phenomenon!
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The Da Vinci Code
Exceedingly clever.Both fascinating and fun...
a considerable achievement. Washington Post
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The Da Vinci Code
His research is impeccable New York Daily News
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The Da Vinci Code
Browns book is not garbage, it is garbage on
stilts,hyper-garbage thatinvokes garbage
inself-authentication Sunday Telegraph
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The Da Vinci Code
Why is it so popular?
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The Da Vinci Code
Why is it so controversial?
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The Da Vinci Code
Fact All descriptions of artwork, architecture,
documents and secret rituals in this novel are
accurate
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The Da Vinci Code
Last week Dan Browns Bible This week Dan
Browns Jesus
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Dan Browns Jesus
Until the time of Constantine, Jesus was
viewed by his followers as a mortal prophet a
great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A
mortal.
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Dan Browns Jesus Claim 1
Constantine commissioned and financed a new
Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of
Christ's human traits and embellished those
gospels that made Him godlike.
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The lost gospels show us the real, human
Jesus, the Biblical gospels downplay his humanity
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• Gnostic gospels

• The Gospel of Thomas
• The Gospel of Philip
• The Gospel of Mary

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The Gospel of Thomas
The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what
Heaven's kingdom is like." He said to them, It's
like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds,
but when it falls on prepared soil, it produces a
large plant and becomes a shelter for birds of
the sky.
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The Gospel of Thomas
Simon Peter said to him, "Let Mary leave us, for
women are not worthy of life." Jesus said, "I
myself shall lead her in order to make her male,
so that she too may become a living spirit
resembling you males. For every woman who will
make herself male will enter the kingdom of
heaven."
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The Gospel of Philip
Jesus took them all by stealth, for he did not
appear as he was, but in the manner in which they
would be able to see him. He appeared to them
all. He appeared to the great as great. He
appeared to the small as small. He appeared to
the angels as an angel, and to men as a man.
Because of this, his word hid itself from
everyone.
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The Gospel of Mary
The Savior said, "All natures, all formed things,
all creatures exist in and with one another and
will again be resolved into their own roots,
because the nature of matter is dissolved into
the roots of its nature alone. He who has ears to
hear, let him hear."
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The Biblical Gospels
Jesus became a man (Jn 114), who was sometimes
tired (Jn 46) and hungry (Matt 42). He was
angry (Matt 1115-17), he cried (Jn 1135), he
loved (Mk 1021). He was tempted (Mk 113), he
grew up and learned to obey his parents (Lk
251-52). He suffered deep sorrow (Mk 1433-34).
He died (Jn 1033).
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The lost gospels show us the real, human
Jesus, the Biblical gospels downplay his humanity
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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 upon their own power.
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The early followers did not worship Jesus as God
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Evidence for Jesus divinity

• Non-Christian historians
• The Church Fathers
• The Apostle Paul

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it was their habit on a fixed day to assemble
before daylight and recite by turns a form of
words to Christ as a god Pliny the Younger
(c110 AD)
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We confess that we are atheists, so far as gods
of this sort Roman gods are concerned, but not
with respect to the most true God, the Father of
righteousness But both Him, and the Sonand the
prophetic Spirit, we worship and adore Justin
Martyr (c.160AD)
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God himself was manifested in human
form Ignatius (c105)
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He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn over all creation. For by him all
things were createdHe is before all things and
in him all things hold togetherfor God was
pleased to have all his fulness dwell in
him Colossians 1v15-20 Apostle Paul (c.60AD)
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The early followers did not worship Jesus as God
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Jesus establishment as the Son of God was
officiallyvoted on by the Council of Nicea.
Hold on. Youre saying Jesus divinity was the
result of a vote? A relatively close vote at
that.
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A church council voted to make Jesus God
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Constantine
The Council of Nicea 325AD
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v
Athanasius c297-373 Jesus fully man and fully God
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Athanasius c297-373 Jesus fully man and fully God
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A church council voted to make Jesus God
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Dan Browns Jesus
Browns Jesus a great man, but just a man
Pauls Jesus The creator God in human flesh
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Conclusion
Examine the evidence on Jesus
Be assured that Jesus is Christ, the Lord