Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Claims: Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Claims
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … 'All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.'
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … But are they?
Some Reviewers Claim …: Some Reviewers Claim … 'His research is impeccable'
--New York Daily News
Some Reviewers Claim …: Some Reviewers Claim … But is it?
The Art of Leonardo: The Art of Leonardo
Madonna of the Rocks: Madonna of the Rocks
The Last Supper: The Last Supper
Holy Grail = Holy Bloodline: Holy Grail = Holy Bloodline ?
Dan Brown claims …: Dan Brown claims …
Merovingian Dynasty: Merovingian Dynasty
Merovingian Blood: Merovingian Blood Merovech
Childeric I
Clovis I
Chlothar I
Sigebert I
Childebert II
Theudebert II of Austrasia
Emma of Austrasia
Earconbert of Kent Egbert I of Kent
Wihtred of Kent
Aethelbert II of Kent
Daughter of Kent
Egbert of Wessex
Ethelwulf of Wessex
Alfred the Great
Aefthryth of England
Arnulf I of Flanders
Merovingian Blood: Merovingian Blood Baldwin II of Flanders
Arnulf II of Flanders
Baldwin IV of Flanders
Baldwin V of Flanders
Maud of Flanders
Adela of Normandy
Stephen of Blois
Eustace IV of Boulogne
Eustachie of Champagne
Beatrice of St. Pol
William III of Ponthieu
Marie of Ponthieu
Joan of Dammartin
Eleanor of Castile
Joan of Acre
Margaret de Clare
Amy de Gaveston
Alice de Driby
Merovingian Blood: Merovingian Blood William Mallory
Margaret Mallory
Mary Corbet
Richard Charlton
Ann Charlton
Elizabeth Grosvenor
Edward Bulkeley
Frances Bulkeley
Olive Welby
Joseph Farwell
Hannah Farwell
Samuel Woods
Hannah Woods
Zadock Wheeler
Uzziel Wheeler
Harriet Wheeler
Julius Fernando Ross
Anna Dutton Ross
Rebecca Ann Taylor
Robert Ernest Cork
William Joseph Cork
Dan Brown on Opus Dei: Dan Brown on Opus Dei Albino
Monk
Assassins?
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … 'I worked very hard to create a fair and balanced depiction of Opus Dei.'
St. Josemaria Escriva: St. Josemaria Escriva
Opus Dei: Dan Brown: 'the new Opus Dei World Headquarters … is located at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City.' Opus Dei Murray Hill Place, NY
Basics of Opus Dei: Basics of Opus Dei A life of prayer and contemplation, with frequent spiritual direction and confession
Study of the Catholic faith
Bearing the cross
Sanctification of ordinary life
Through excellence in your profession
And spreading of Gospel values through the lay apostolate
Corporal Mortification: Corporal Mortification
St. Josemaria on Mortification: St. Josemaria on Mortification The world admires only spectacular sacrifice, because it does not realize the value of sacrifice that is hidden and silent.
If you don't deny yourself you will never be a soul of prayer.
Don't say: 'That person gets on my nerves.' Think: 'That person sanctifies me.‘
Many who would willingly let themselves be nailed to a Cross before the astonished gaze of a thousand onlookers cannot bear with a christian spirit the pinpricks of each day! Think, then, which is the more heroic.
Others who used it …: Others who used it …
John Allen on Opus Dei:
John Allen on Opus Dei 'If you want a guiding metaphor for Opus Dei, … think of it as the Guinness Extra Stout of the Catholic Church. It’s a strong brew, definitely an acquired taste, and clearly not for everyone.'
For More about Opus Dei …: For More about Opus Dei … http://opusdei.org
Constantine: Constantine Creator of
Christianity?
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … 'Christians and pagans began warring, and the conflict grew to such proportions that it threatened to rend Rome in two.' Constantine blended the two religions.
Slide27: 'Originally, … Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan’s veneration day of the sun.' Dan Brown Claims …
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … 'The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great.' Fact:
Muratorian Canon gives basic list of NT books, 170-200 AD.
Irenaeus, writing at the same time: 'The Gospels could not possibly be either more or less in number than they are (four).' Cites in Adv. Haer. all NT books except: Philemon, II Peter, III John, and Jude.
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … We should trust the Gnostic gospels that were excluded from the canon.
As Time Goes By: As Time Goes By
Epistles of Paul
20 years
First Gospel
35 years
End of NT
65 years
Gnostic Gospels
100 to 300 years 1986: Challenger 1972: Watergate 1941: Pearl Harbor 1906: SF Earthquake 1706: Franklin Born From the Passion of Jesus to …
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … Before Constantine, 'Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet. … Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.'
Scripture on Jesus’ Divinity: Scripture on Jesus’ Divinity The eternal Word, through whom all things were made (John 1:1-3 )
Jesus is Kyrios (Phil 2:11, 1 Cor 12:3)
The eternal Son, through whom he created the world. The angels worship him (Heb 1:1, 6) Before all things, created all things, in him all things hold together (Col 1:15)
'Before Abraham was, I AM' (John 8:58)
'He claimed to be the Son of God' (John 19:7)
He shall judge the living and the dead (2 Tim 4:1)
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … Constantine’s new Bible 'omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ’s human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.'
Scripture on Jesus’ Humanity: Scripture on Jesus’ Humanity He emptied himself, humbled himself to death (Philippians 2:5-11)
He shared our flesh and blood, like us 'in every respect; he suffered, and so can sympathize with our weakness (Heb 2:14-18; 4:14-16)
Those who deny the incarnation are antichrist (1 John:4:1-3)
The Word was made flesh (John 1:14)
He was hungry (Matt 4:2)
He wept (John 11:35)
He died (Matt 27:50, Mark 15:37, Luke 23:46, John 19:30)
After his resurrection he could be touched and could eat (Luke 24:39-43; John 20:27)
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … We could learn a lot from Gnosticism.
What Is the Gnostic “Gospel”?: What Is the Gnostic 'Gospel'? Matter is evil, a prison
Created by a lesser deity
Jesus only appeared to be human
He was opposed to the deity who created the world—and who inspired the Old Testament
He taught a way to be freed from this prison
Hidden knowledge, known only to a special few
Spirituality: either ascetical or libertine
More Dan Brown Claims …: 'the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene' More Dan Brown Claims … 6th Century: St. Gregory the Great preached about the Scriptural account; Gregory of Tours says she went to Ephesus.
10th Century: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene begins to be celebrated on July 22 in Constantinople
11th Century: Feast spreads through the West
13th Centuy: The Golden Legend; relics sought after.
More Dan Brown Claims …: 'the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene' More Dan Brown Claims …
More Dan Brown Claims …: 'the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene' More Dan Brown Claims …
More Dan Brown Claims …: 'the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene' More Dan Brown Claims … From the First Century to today, the Scripture record bears witness to the life and faith of Mary Magdalene.
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … The Catholic Church burned 5,000,000 women as witches in 300 years, including 'all female scholars,' after publication of Malleus Maleficarum in 1486. Fact:
Maybe one per cent of that figure killed, through various means, by Catholics, Protestants, and secular authorities.
Dan Brown Claims …: 'The Jewish tetragrammaton YHWH—the sacred name of God—in fact derived from Jehovah, an androgynous physical union between the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah.' Fact:
'Jehovah' was formed by adding the vowel points from Adonai or Elohim to YHWH, so that readers who know to substitute the word Adonai or Elohim when they came upon YHWH. Dan Brown Claims …
Slide43: '… the early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex. In the Temple, no less. Early Jews believed that the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Temple housed not only God but also His powerful female equal, Shekinah.' Fact:
Lev. 16: Only the high priest enters the Holy of Holies, and then only once a year.
Deut. 5: The Lord is God, the Lord is one.
Isa. 45:5-6: 'I am the Lord, there is none else.'
Shekinah appears in medieval Judaism as a term for God’s presence in the temple. Dan Brown Claims …
Dan Brown Claims …: Dan Brown Claims … The Church had a 'new Vatican power base' in Constantine’s day.
Why Is It Popular?: Why Is It Popular? Fast-paced story
Intriguing mystery
Church is the bad guy
Church is hiding something
'You shall be as gods'
Our Response: Our Response Proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. …
For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
2 Timothy 4:2-3
Our Response: Our Response Guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.
1 Timothy 6:20 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you.
1 John 2:24
Our Response: Our Response We proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:23
Some Particulars: Some Particulars Christology
The teachings of Nicea and Chalcedon and the controversies that led to them
Scripture
Its inspiration and reliability
Canon
Evangelization
Not just teachings about Christ, but an encounter with Christ himself.
Webpage: Webpage
Webpage: Webpage
Books: Books
Books: Books