The DaVinci Lie: Trust Your Bible!
by Phillip Goodman
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By now surely everyone has heard of something called the DaVinci Code, a best selling book, and now a “mega” movie. However, it is actually fiction parading as “fact,” and as such is a mega-lie.
The “facts,” as it goes, purports to have the “true” story of Jesus Christ and Christianity long hidden away in various books suppressed over the centuries by the Catholic Church. The reason? To cover up the “true facts” that Jesus was merely a man, or human prophet, who married His female companion, Mary Magdalene, and has left offspring to this day in the royal lineage of France. The Bible we have today is supposedly a pseudo-version forced upon believers for the past 2000 years.
The Lie: Your Bible Is Not The Real Bible This is the crux of the Lie—that our current Bible was substituted for the real “Gnostic” version—and this Lie is easily refuted. When the true facts are known about how our Bible came to us, the whole DaVinci Code edifice crumbles into the sorry fiction it really is, and exposes the demonic spirit behind the growing “DaVinci culture.” The key is in the question, “How did we get the Bible? “
The Truth: Your Bible Is The True Bible Here are the actual facts behind how our Bible came to us. These facts flow like links in a chain—without a break—straight to YOUR BIBLE! Learn these links to your Bible, and you will find confidence behind the facts that God has indeed preserved His Word just as He promised in Matthew 24:35.
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away. (Matthew 24:35)
The links in the chain in the True Word of God will flow from God the Father, to Jesus His Son, to the Apostles. “He who receives you [The Apostles] receives Me [Jesus], and he who receives Me receives Him [God] who sent Me. (Matthew 10:40) Jesus established the principal of Apostolic Authority.
These Bible “links” begin with the witness of the Apostles to the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus. We know this first-hand witness as the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you [the Apostles] all things, and bring to your [the Apostles] remembrance all that I said to you [the Gospels]. (John 14:26) Jesus provided for Apostolic Authority.
The Holy Spirit would also inspire the writing of the various Epistles, or letters, that is Corinthians, Thessalonians, Ephesians, 1 John, 1 Peter, etc., etc., as well as the prophetic portions, including Revelation. “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you [the Apostles] into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you [the Apostles] what is to come [the Book of Revelation]. (John 16:13) Again, Jesus commissioned the Apostles to be the authority behind our New Testament.
John reiterates that for a book to be true, or to be considered what we call a “Bible book,” it must be an Apostle’s book, for Jesus had said that the Word would flow from God to Jesus to the Apostles (points 1-3 above). “We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:6) Again, any books of the New Testament must have Apostolic Authority behind them.
The next link, the generation who followed the Apostles, understood that a true Bible book must have the authority of the Apostles—that is, it must be either directly authored by or approved by an Apostle. Polycarp, (110AD), was a direct disciple of the Apostle John, and knew of 18 of our current 27 New Testament books as coming from the Apostles. Irenaeus (130-202AD), was a disciple of Polycarp. He writes that Polycarp “always taught the things which he had learned from the apostles, and which the Church has handed down, and which alone are true.” (Haer. 3.3.4) Irenaeus mentions 23 of the New Testament books. Once again, any books of the New Testament must have Apostolic Authority behind them.
Clement of Rome was a contemporary of the Apostles, and is probably mentioned in Phil. 4:3. He writes in 97AD, “The Apostles received the Gospel for us from the Lord Jesus Christ; Jesus the Christ was sent from God. The Christ therefore is from God and the Apostles from the Christ.” (1 Clem. 42.1-2) Clement quotes from 10 of our current 27 New Testament books, including the Gospels of Matthew and John. From the beginning the true church was steadfast that any books of the New Testament must have Apostolic Authority behind them.
The next link in this unbroken chain is found in a Latin Manuscript dated 170AD, called “The Muratorian Canon.” It names 23 of our 27 New Testament books as received by all churches at that time. These Apostolic books, scattered all across the Roman Empire, were beginning to “link” up with one another into our current Bible, long before any “church council.” The church simply recognized those books of the New Testament that had Apostolic Authority behind them.
The earliest church council to make an official pronouncement was the Council Of Hippo (393AD). It made official in the churches what the Apostles and the next generation Church Fathers had already declared to be true: The same 27 books we have in our Bible today were the accepted Books of the Apostles. They had been used as such by the Church since the days of the Apostles, who were the appointed eyewitnesses to Jesus Christ, who was God the Son sent by God the Father.
The trail of Bible copies leading back from our current Bible to the earliest Bible manuscripts (thousands of them) show that the Bible of the first generation church was the same Bible we have today! Therefore, we have today the very Bible that Jesus promised through His apostles!
In the above, we can clearly see the historical fulfillment of what the Scriptures bear witness to… that is,
Jesus commissioned 12 Apostles to “remember” the Gospels (John 14:26), and to write down through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit “all truth” in The Epistles (John 16:13), and to write the prophecies of “what is to come,” including The Book Of Revelation (John 16:13). “After it [the Word of God] was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard [the Apostles]” (Hebrews 2:3)
The Apostles taught that it was only their witness that would determine the truth about Jesus Christ and God (1 John 4:6), and that the church would be built on that witness. “[The Church] having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone” (Ephesians 2:20)
The Apostles, who were required to be eyewitnesses of the Resurrected Christ (Acts 1:22; 1 Cor. 9:1; 15:6-8), all lived and died in the first century. Therefore, all of the so-called “hidden” books mentioned in the DaVinci Code, written in the 2nd century or later, do not have this Apostolic Authority. That is why the church never accepted them as part of the inspired Bible.
Therefore, knowing that our Bible has Apostolic Authority and is the true Word Of God, all of the mumbo-jumbo fiction passed as fact about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the Holy Grail, Church Conspiracies, etc., can be shown to be not only fiction, but demonic-fiction.
The TRUTH of how we got the Bible destroys The DaVinci Code at its very foundation! That is why the crux of the issue is “How did we get the Bible? ” Once we discover that FACT, the rest of the “DaVinci facts” evaporate in a puff of fiction.
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