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The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

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WHO IS THIS JESUS?<br />

basics of early <strong>Christian</strong> history. <strong>The</strong> only reason Dan<br />

Brown can get away with intimating a factual basis for<br />

his story is because there is such widespread ignorance<br />

of <strong>Christian</strong> history, including these facts:<br />

• <strong>The</strong> <strong>Gospel</strong>s in the Bible are based on eyewitness<br />

testimony and have far more historical credibility than<br />

spurious documents written in the second, third, or<br />

fourth centuries by, if you will, <strong>Christian</strong> cults.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> <strong>Christian</strong> emperor Constantine did not create<br />

the Bible, nor did he declare its canon, nor was he the<br />

first to declare Jesus divine.<br />

• Jesus was worshiped as divine from the very beginning.<br />

Those who believed in Him sealed their testimony<br />

with their own blood. <strong>The</strong>y could not deny what they<br />

saw with their own eyes and touched with their own<br />

hands.<br />

• Jesus was never married to anyone because He will<br />

marry His bride (the Church) at the end of time<br />

(Revelation 19:6-10).<br />

<strong>The</strong> Da Vinci Code should be taken as a 100 percent<br />

novel. By-and-large if you treat its “facts” as fiction, you<br />

are closer to the truth than if you treat its “facts” as facts.<br />

When the movie trailers for <strong>The</strong> Da Vinci Code were<br />

running, they declared, “Seek the truth.” That is one<br />

statement that we would totally agree with. Seek the<br />

truth. Seek with an open mind. See why tens of millions<br />

have discovered that Jesus Christ is who He says He<br />

was—God in human flesh—who came down from<br />

Heaven to redeem human beings.<br />

When you seek, you will find. When you seek the<br />

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