Comments on: The Da Vinci Code http://www.binaryslate.co.uk/archives/2006/05/26/the-da-vinci-code/ my attempt to add a bit more detritus to t'interweb Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:47:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Stephen http://www.binaryslate.co.uk/archives/2006/05/26/the-da-vinci-code/#comment-10271 Stephen Wed, 31 May 2006 14:11:50 +0000 http://www.binaryslate.co.uk/archives/2006/05/26/the-da-vinci-code/#comment-10271 I haven't seen it yet. I bought the book at an airport and read it on the flight. I wouldn't nominate it for the Nobel prize for literature (obviously I was asked) but I thought it was quite an enjoyable read. I don't know whether the reviewers (of the book) are being hard on it for religious reasons or just being snobby cos he's sold so many copies of an inferior book. Anyway... I would guess, with no opinion poll evidence whatsoever to back me up, that most people in the UK believe that Jesus was a flesh and blood man. This is not what any Christian Church believes though - they all believe that Jesus is God and the Son of God, and any other position has been heresy since the Council of Nicea. So to accept that now would be to do a U-turn on over 1500 years of teaching. The problem for them is not really the Da Vinci Code - people only believe Dan Brown's theory because deep down they never believed in the Nicene Creed anyway. I haven’t seen it yet. I bought the book at an airport and read it on the flight. I wouldn’t nominate it for the Nobel prize for literature (obviously I was asked) but I thought it was quite an enjoyable read. I don’t know whether the reviewers (of the book) are being hard on it for religious reasons or just being snobby cos he’s sold so many copies of an inferior book. Anyway…

I would guess, with no opinion poll evidence whatsoever to back me up, that most people in the UK believe that Jesus was a flesh and blood man. This is not what any Christian Church believes though - they all believe that Jesus is God and the Son of God, and any other position has been heresy since the Council of Nicea. So to accept that now would be to do a U-turn on over 1500 years of teaching. The problem for them is not really the Da Vinci Code - people only believe Dan Brown’s theory because deep down they never believed in the Nicene Creed anyway.

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