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

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
and resurrecting god—essentially “winter” and “spring.”
However, these are never alleged to have been real
history.
In contrast, on such and such a day (some scholars,
including Dr. Alan Whanger, retired professor of Duke
Medical Center—believe April 7, A.D. 30), Jesus Christ
was crucified and laid in a tomb in Jerusalem. He came
out alive with a resurrected body in three days (as Jews
count it—two days as we would count it).
Going further on the mystery religions, note what
authors Carl Olson and Sandra Miesel write in their
book, The Da Vinci Hoax:
Unfortunately for Brown and the authors of
Holy Blood, Holy Grail, there is little or no
evidence that most pagan mystery religions,
such as the Egyptian cult of Isis and Osiris or the
cult of Mithras, existed in the forms described in
their books prior to the mid-first century. This is
a significant point, for much of the existing
evidence indicates that the third- and fourthcentury
beliefs and practices of certain pagan
mystery religions are read back into the firstcentury
beliefs of Christians—without support
for such a presumptive act…. “Far too many
writers use this late source material (after A.D.
200) to form reconstructions of the thirdcentury
experience and then uncritically reason
back to what they think must have been the
earlier nature of the cults,” writes Ronald
Nash…. “The critical question is…what effect
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