I went to see the DaVinci Code

[BigNorsk]

It was an okay movie. If I had read the book first though, I fear it would have been real boring. The entertaining part for me was to solve the puzzle before they told you.

It's sure strange how so many people are being mislead into thinking the truth is in the DaVinci Code.

You don't even need to use the Bible to show that the very foundation or premise of the movie is wrong.

If you don't want to know anything about the movie, you had better stop reading now,

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Anyway, the whole premise of the movie is that it can be proven from Mary Magdelene's body that someone is descended from her.

Okay, if you can get a good intact genetic sample from her, you could through DNA testing, have something to stand on today.

What would you have had for the first 1900 years? A body. That's about it. Unless it stood up and pointed and said "There she is my descendant." having a body was pretty well worthless to prove ancestry.

So why would Opus Dei have spent all those centuries trying to destroy the "proof" by killing Mary's decendants or getting rid of Mary's body.

There was no proof, Mary's body would have been worthless, until very recently we couldn't show someone was someone else's father much less his great-great-great-great......grandmother.

Think those 4th century bishops knew about mitochondrial DNA?

I would be sceptical.

But that's just me.

How about anybody else? See any huge holes in the logic that doesn't even require scripture?

Marv

[Protoevangel]

You mean the movie speaks of Opus Dei "through the centuries"?

Haha! ^_^

That is too funny! Opus Dei didn't even exist until October 2nd, 1928. There was no parent organization either, it was entirely Josemaría Escrivá's baby!

[Protoevangel]

You mean the movie speaks of Opus Dei "through the centuries"?

Haha! ^_^

That is too funny! Opus Dei didn't even exist until October 2nd, 1928. There was no parent organization either, it was entirely Josemaría Escrivá's baby!

... OR, maybe that's just what they want us to think!!!


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[SPALATIN]

Gosh, I am sorry you wasted your money on this garbage. Oh well, Ron Howard will be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Willy]

The DaVinci Code is a "B" movie from my perspective. It is an interesting mystery. It is no threat to the Christian faith. It does raise some important issues--the role of power and oppression in the history of the church, the suppression of the feminine, the importance of the humanity of Jesus. It's not overly profound, but certainly not worth the reaction that some fearful parts of the church are giving it. From my perspective, A Prairie Home Companion is a wonderfully profound movie, much more existentially relevant. I highly recommend it.

[Jim47]

I've always liked fairy tails but I have no interest in this. :sick:

[maycontainnuts]

I watched it, too. I don't see what the big deal was; it is just a work of fiction.

[C.F.W. Walther]

Most solid Christians won't have any probelm with it. It's just the liberal media that want's to discredit Christ as in the Book of Mary and all the other ridiculous knostic texts.

[LutheranHawkeye]

I thought the Davinci Code was a great movie. It had a bad message trying to say jesus was not divine but it was still a good adventure/mystery movie. A kid from my school went with one of my friends to the Davinci Code and he laughed through the whole movie. The kid was Quaker and thought he was being cool by laughing at the movie the whole time. I guess you'll have that when dealing with quakers. So the moral of the story is the Davinci Code was a good movie. Bad message. Bad Quakers. :)

[BigNorsk]

You know the thing that struck me is how the DaVinci code actually uses the same arguements that a lot of others do.

For instance the gnostic writing the Gospel of Thomas, since being rediscovered is having quite a revival. The big proponents of it in a lot of cases are Muslims. Especially in Europe. They have this big story behind how the church tried to destroy the truth by burning most copies and it was miraculously found and of course contradicts much in the true Gospels so they accept it.

And so they exchange the truth for a lie.

That's a little bit about what I find scary about the DaVinci code, if people are so uncritical in their beliefs and knowledge that they can't see such obvious mistakes. They are really set up as a wonderful mission field for the muslims. The fact that they think of themselves as kind of christian and have grown up thinking they know about the Bible and such really makes it harder in many ways to get to them with the truth.

Marv

[LutheranHawkeye]

You know the thing that struck me is how the DaVinci code actually uses the same arguements that a lot of others do.

For instance the gnostic writing the Gospel of Thomas, since being rediscovered is having quite a revival. The big proponents of it in a lot of cases are Muslims. Especially in Europe. They have this big story behind how the church tried to destroy the truth by burning most copies and it was miraculously found and of course contradicts much in the true Gospels so they accept it.

And so they exchange the truth for a lie.

That's a little bit about what I find scary about the DaVinci code, if people are so uncritical in their beliefs and knowledge that they can't see such obvious mistakes. They are really set up as a wonderful mission field for the muslims. The fact that they think of themselves as kind of christian and have grown up thinking they know about the Bible and such really makes it harder in many ways to get to them with the truth.

Marv I call these people lukewarm people. They are not hot(believers) or cold (nonbelievers) they are in the middle. My pastor did a sermon on this issue of people who are in the middle of everything and it really impacted me. The davinci code may make lukewarm people believe but true hot followers of christ should have no problem with this movie.

[C.F.W. Walther]

You know the thing that struck me is how the DaVinci code actually uses the same arguements that a lot of others do.

For instance the gnostic writing the Gospel of Thomas, since being rediscovered is having quite a revival. The big proponents of it in a lot of cases are Muslims. Especially in Europe. They have this big story behind how the church tried to destroy the truth by burning most copies and it was miraculously found and of course contradicts much in the true Gospels so they accept it.

And so they exchange the truth for a lie.

That's a little bit about what I find scary about the DaVinci code, if people are so uncritical in their beliefs and knowledge that they can't see such obvious mistakes. They are really set up as a wonderful mission field for the muslims. The fact that they think of themselves as kind of christian and have grown up thinking they know about the Bible and such really makes it harder in many ways to get to them with the truth.

Marv

Yea you're possibly right on that issue. That's probably the reason the morman ranks are swelling. Just enough truth to give it credibility but not enough truth to keep it out of the realms of a cult.



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[Jim47]

NordicLutheran
The davinci code may make lukewarm people believe but true hot followers of christ should have no problem with this movie.



This may be true, but Satan waits for every opportunity to attack our faith and cast doubts as to our unworthiness and works diligently to make us fall as did Judas.

[JVAC]

I greatly enjoyed the book, and I enjoyed the movie. The only thing that made me kringe was the reference to constantine. The scholarship, or lack there of, was a big turn off for me, but luckily it wasn't important to the story and I could still enjoy myself.

I would see it again, though I wouldn't read it again (I read about as fast as an eight-year-old with dislexia.)

-James

[mohawk]

I've read Dan Brown's books, but as for seeing the movie I'm not sure I will. For one thing, I think it was poor casting.Tom Hanks is a great actor, but there are some parts he is just not right for. This is one of them.
Everyone should realize going in that this is a work of fiction. Things like the Priory of Scion...made up by a con man in the 50's...that's 1950's. Any amount of serious research will prove this is fiction. Anyone who believes otherwise doesn't want to know the truth.