Dan Brown does not want to be a Biblical Christian, and he wants others to give up Christianity as well.

‣ “My dear,” Teabing declared, “until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet… a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless.

“In him was life and that life was the light of men.

The Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in a Paris museum. Dan Brown has one of his characters, Teabing, say.

“Jesus Christ was a historical figure of staggering influence, perhaps the most enigmatic and inspirational leader the world has ever seen…Understandably, His life was recorded by thousands of followers across the land…More than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John among them” (p. 231). film, or the video, when it comes out.

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“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

He leads me beside still waters. However, his commentary in the novel on these two sites strays off the mark.

5. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

The Gnostic teachings make them inconsistent with previous revelations.

In the gospels, there are miracle accounts that are supernatural, but not strange. The four gospels were known to be apostolic writings but these others texts were not.

the one), and a cross following, after them. Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.

And an answer was heard from the cross, saying: Yea.”. You can read Dr. Hymers' sermons each week on the Internet Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The answer is simple.

You’re saying Jesus’ divinity was the result of a vote?” “A relatively close vote at that,” Teabing added  I will address issues brought up by the novel and discern between what is truth and what is error. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. Dr. Hymers’ e-mail is rlhymersjr@sbcglobal.net. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. The church fathers knew of them and never considered them apostolic. The Da Vinci Code claims there were eighty gospels but only four were chosen to be part of the New Testament.

at the Baptist Tabernacle of Los Angeles. These were the men who saw Him when He was on earth.

Following are some excerpts from several Gnostic Texts. Bushby claims that the parents of Jesus and Christ were a Nabatean Arab, Mariamne Herod, and a Roman Centurion, Tiberius ben Panthera. Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem.

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Of course, the Vatican, in keeping with their tradition of misinformation, tried very hard to suppress the release of these scrolls. These are terrible times of apostasy and unbelief here in the Western world.

pages 15, 16, 17, 23).

A mortal.” “Not the Son of God?” “Right,” Teabing said. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. ‣

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. How was the New Testament Canon created?

These were written from the early second century to the fourth century AD.