Why Da Vinci Code Scares Fundamentalists

Thought of a 3 verse flat post to make check it out

Checked it out and posted. Good job.

I have run across another person that has a pretty different way of viewing things. This is pretty much what he believes:

[quote]I was born with the Spirit of GOd, we are all born of the Spirit and by the Spirit of God....Children of God full of the holy spirit lead away and taken into bondage by the evil in the world we were brought into.... Instructed in error and lead to believe the doctrines of Men........ This was our past...... This is what has happened to all of us..... Believer and unbeliever alike........[/quote]

He believes that the Bible has completely distorted the true character of God and that Christ was crucified because He was sent to show the true character of God but was killed because of it and not because of our sins.

He will say that certain parts of the Bible are just wrong and others aren't. That is pretty complex how he explains it.

Its late momma angel 2 55 am here i need to go to bed chat with you later.

Thinking about doing the same. Have a good night.

You know what I can't understand?

The title fooled me into thinking that this was a reasonable debate about why fundamentalist Christians are so scared of a work of fiction. Not all mind you, but a sizeable number at that.

The content of the first post may have been complete drivel, but the question behind it is still a good one.

Why are they so scared of a work of fiction? Why are they so scared that people might believe in a work of fiction? Surely, those that believe in Dan Brown's work are the sort of people whose faith was teetering on the precipice of destruction before they even read it?

Therefore, surely, their reaction to a work of fiction shows us not that they're angry that people are converting, but that they're angry in that the work shows them up. It shows the world that they are too incompetent to keep their followers or that their religion is so shoddy a work of complete fiction is enough to topple it.

There is also another possibility. Perhaps, they themselves are lacking in faith. Why else would they be so afraid? Perhaps it shows that they themselves know that the Bible is fallible, but they're too afraid to admit it because it would make a mockery of everything they ever stood for?

Im waiting for the "DaVinci Code recipe Book" aaaaaaand the "Da Vinci Code Diet Book"

How about takin some of that dried up juice and spit on the Shroud of Turin? we could at least do a partial.

WOLF-This is your area,Please get on this , write up a budget and well go to the Vatican Observatory for funds.

You've confused me. I know you're trying to make some kind of quip or joke, but I can't understand it... What's my area again?

didnt I read in one of your posts that you work in molecular bio? If not, no biggy, you can still write the budget proposal.

Yes, that's right. I just couldn't understand what it had to do with... Oh! Sorry, you were referring to that original BS post. Now I get it.

I think I might just write the budget proposal. Let's see... we'll need to go to Southern France coz that's where Leigh and Bateing and Lincoln first made their discovery about this Merovingian descendency... We'll need, oh, I'd say about £150 billion and a few physicists in order to develop a working time machine so we can go back into the past and retrieve a sample of Jesus' DNA... then we'll need about... Ooh... £5 million to build a research lab for me to work in, buy the necessary materials, fly all the possible candidates over here etc. etc.

Oh and we'll need about £4 billion for a big party bash should we successfully find Jesus' descendent and about £10 billion to establish a World Empire ruled by Jesus' descendents.

Does that sound about right?

You're gonna need a business manager with all that money floating around--i offer my humble services, and that other guy is a nut job and a con man, so don't listen to him.

Ok so here's how I view it.

It's COMPLETELY conceiveable that Jesus was married and had kids. It is also COMPLETELY conceivable that Jesus was not married and never had kids.

Jesus was a man. He was also Divine. If the DaVinci Code did nothing other than stir up conspiracy, I'd had dismissed it long ago. However, I thjink that the stories and theories are telling us that man is Divine and that WE are ALL descendents of Jesus.

Reasoning:
Jesus was a man.
We are man.
Jesus was Divine.
Thus if Jesus was man and Divine, that makes us all man and Divine.

Which makes us just like Jesus.

I am a Christian, reformed Catholic turned spiritual. What I can't understand is the horror people feel at the mere thought that Jesus could have been married. What is so bad about that? Some might say it was because that would show that he put a woman before the church. But that isn't true because even now the church teaches that God comes first, then the spouse. So, why couldn't that have been true in Jesus' time?

Also, I think that people are scared of it because they know that there is no way of proving that is ISN'T true. Perhaps, somewhere there are scrolls and writings that would make this clear (as there were thought to be lost writings found written by Mary Magdalene; the fourth Gospel) Are these true? Real? They could be just as true and real as the original Gospels. They'd be just as old. And just as unprovable as authentic.

Again, what is so scary about believing that there was one more person in Jesus' life? If it means that he is somehow less Divine because of this human fallacy (emotion), then why is it not thought to be blasphmy that he got angry and upset the tables in the temple? Jesus got angry. So why couldn't he have human love? He was scared to die. He asked that he not have to go through the crucifixion. He had humility. He washed the feet of sinners. He can't have one human trait and no others. Jesus was a man, plain and simple. A great man, one whos teachings can't be denied. But still just a man.

Pay no attention to the man behind the green shirt. Hes friggin evil.

Well, i like your budget numbers , however, I thought wed start smaller, Like I mentioned, why dont we first get some of tht dried spit and juice from the Shroud of Turin?
How bout the dried up leftovers from the Last Supper? surely we can scare up a DNA segment or three.

Geeez Wolf, you don't need to do all that. You can go online and find out if your descended from Christ.

Guess I am not one of them since the file wouldn't even open for me.

You must have a piss poor pineal gland.

But it's not as much fun...

Reading and chuckling!

Yes, but the troll is still asleep under his mossy bridge. Just no fun without it.

Wolfie and Bella Dea,

I think the problem with the Da Vinci Code is that IF Jesus was married and had a child that would in essence, prove the Bible to be incorrect and many Christians do get very upset when something contrary to the Word of God is being touted. I guess you could relate it somewhat to the Muslims being so angry about those cartoons. I know for myself that it has nothing to do with fear. I know the Da Vinci Code is fictional. I don't like the fact that the book says what it does but it doesn't mean that much to me. Some feel differently.

To those that are believers, our beliefs are sacred, and thus we don't feel they should be mocked. I do understand that there are those that do not believe and therefore; our beliefs mean nothing to them.

Which part, exactly? I'm not trying to start a fight here, MA, I'm just asking because I don't think I've ever gotten a satisfactory answer to this question. What in the bible would be proven inaccurate if Jesus got married?