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

WHY THE DA VINCI CODE IS SO POPULAR
SOPHIA
In November of 1993, about 2,200 people gathered
in Minneapolis for a church-sponsored “RE-imagining”
conference. They were mostly women, with a handful of
men. Almost all of the attendees worked for a church.
This “RE-imagining” conference was dedicated to reimagining
what God is like. It dedicated itself to rethinking
Jesus, the community, and the Church. When a
young member of our church heard just the title of the
conference, he blurted out, “It’s all right there in the
Bible; you don’t have to ‘reimagine’ anything”
The conference praised “Sophia, our Maker,”
(Sophia is the Greek word for “wisdom”) while God the
Father was met with derision. The atonement of Christ
was denigrated by some of the speakers. For example,
Delores Williams of Union Seminary said, “Jesus came
for life and...atonement has to do so much with death...I
don’t think we need folks hanging on crosses and blood
dripping and weird stuff.”
Speaker Aruna Gnanadason of the World Council of
Churches said, “In a global context, where violence and
the use of force have become the norm, the violence that
the cross symbolizes and the patriarchal image of an
almighty, invincible father god needs to be challenged
and reconstructed.” 87
This conference was funded by mainline churches.
New Age ideas, lesbianism, and even goddess worship
were promoted, while historic Christianity was ridiculed.
Virtually all the funds for this conference came from
church funds. Picture the believer in the pew donating
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