DaVinci Code, DaVinci Code, wherefore art thou?

OK, it's only been said 100 times sinces the trailers came out, but I think it needs it's own thread.

THE DAVINCI CODE IS A WORK OF FICTION. FICTION, FICTION, FICTION! DO YOU NEED TO LOOK UP THE WORD? WOULD YOU LIKE A LINK TO WIKIPEDIA? OR DO SOME OF YOU NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO GRASP THIS CONCEPT?

That having been said, who wants to argue about whether or not Lenny killed the puppy in Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men"? I personally think one of Saddam Hussein's sons did it...

Please discuss.

 

Get a life dude, seriously. I don't mean to be rude, but are you the kind of guy who if somebody says to you "hey man can I get you a beer or somethin" you respond with "The bible is shit, Jesus was an asshole, there is no God!!"? Really if you're not a Christian that is just fine and all, but please do try and be thoughtful and intelligent about it, like Hikaru or BTM.

 

Here's the difference between the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Bible:

One of them says outright in the preface that it is fiction.

The other one, conversely, begins with "In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth."

Doesn't sound like it's a self-acclaimed work of fiction to me.

(Not that I believe it's true, of course. )

 

Troll off into the sunset, boy. You aren't wanted here.

The point I was trying to make: The status of the bible as a historical narrative may be in question by we the enlightened. But the status of DaVinci Code as a work of fiction is being denied by the very people who deny its' validity.

I shall coin the term for this: The irony of the idiots.

 

Actually, in the preface it says everything in the book is a fact except obviously the thriller-story line.

 

Would you be willing to give me a summary of what Ezekiel 37 is about in your own thoughts?

 

That's not exactly true.

It says the religious rituals, streets, and works of art, are all real and can still be seen today. And they are. But the book is based very little off of these things.

But things like Opus Dei being a Catholic terrorist organization, and much of the religious symbolism is made up.

 

You can't expect him to know random bible verses. However, I will agree with you, he probably doesn't know that much about the bible and is just bashing...could be exactly the opposite though.

 

Plenty of the bible is just history.

 

If you call that "history!"

... and Mohammed begat Jehosephat. And Jehosephat begat Lam'ar, and Lam'ar begat Michael ... wait ... MIKE is in this story? What bout me? =(

 

Well the same people who are saying that the facts aren't true are the ones being called out in the book. At least there's a book like this finally pointing out how the Catholic church has been corrupted for so long. The only reason it's fiction is because it was the easiest way.

I also heard Dan Brown was being sued by the author's of Holy Blood, Holy Grail because of supposed plagarism. They're basically the same thing, but without the entertaining story line that could be made into a movie. If you want to read a book read Holy Blood, Holy Grail because the facts are there more then in Davinci Code, which is basically a knock off IMO.

 

Good Tuesday morning, everybody! The sun is rising, the robins are hunting worms and The DaVinci code is still fiction!

Don't want you to forget...

 

No that wasn't my point... All I wanted was for him to actually look it up, read it, and tell me what his thoughts... I didnt expect him to know it.

 

Also, plenty of the Bible predicted history before it happened... How does that work?

 

OK, I insist that you all cease and desist from getting off track in my thread. This thread is about DaVinci Code being a work of fiction, not a debate over the historical value of the old and new testaments. So knock it off.

Still fiction.

 

You read Ezekiel 37 yet?

 

I did, and frankly I have no idea what it has to do with this thread, or the bible being true or fiction?

It is basically a vision of the ressurection, and the coming together of judah and isreal into one nation in peace under a dead king.

Perhaps I missed something, but if you are saying that somehow this verse had predicted the future, I would suggest you watch the news once in a while. Because isreal seems a long way from peace to me.
I would be interested to hear what it says to you.

 

lol ... stick 'em to their guns.

 

I don't mean to encourage topicness, the off topic stuff here is much more entertaining. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to bash your thread, but the DaVinci Code is indeed fiction, yup, there you go. There seeems to be a general agreement about that one. What else is there to say.

The Ezekiel 37 stuff is much more interesting. It is clearly a prophecy that the land of Isreal will be returned to the Jewish people. Since this did happen it belies the rather lame argument that the Bible is "FICTION FICTION FICTION".

 

Well first of all thank you for reading... Fed Up American I guess didn't bother : )


Okay to start, In regards to Ezekiel's vision about the valley of the dry bones, the valley represents the whole world. The dry bones represent the Jewish people, who were scattered through the world without any hope of a land of their own. God should Ezekiel that someday the Jewish people would come back to Israel. God states in Ez. 37:12 "I will bring you back to the land of Israel."

(In 1948, Israel became a nation again after almost 2000 years of being scatter and without a home, Israel is once again blooming and is the home of the Jews).

Then in Ez. 37:21 It states I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land."

(Every year a surplus of Jews are returning to Israel from all over the world. Recently, Israel became the majority of where jewish people lived, beating out America).


In Ez. 37:22 God states, "I will make them ONE NATION in the land... There will be ONE KING over all of them and they will never be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms."
(Although Israel is socially divided... they are one nation and are ruled by one king as oppose to what they were 2000 years ago when they were a nation.)

In regards to being no peace... there will be peace in Israel in our future... however, before that, there will be of agressivness towards Israel... then there will be peace and then there will be the ultimate war and God will reveal Himself at that time.

God states, " On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gather agaisnt her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations... On that day I will set out to destroy all nations that attack Israel."