Da Vinci Code movie (possible spoiler)
I went to see the movie of the Da Vinci code.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/
There was some really cool stuff in it. How can you hate a movie showing good-looking people running around Paris (and around Europe) being chased by really spooky bad guys on a quest for the Holy Grail? To make it even better, they're trying to solve arcane puzzles involving Isaac Newton and the Gospels.
So, how can anyone hate this?
Oh, yeah, duh, there's a reason to convince yourself you hate this movie. It makes the allegation that Jesus of Nazareth didn't die on Golgotha, but rather went on to raise a family with the woman the Gospels know as Mary Magdalene. This, of course, is a difficult thing for Christian faith to accept -- if Jesus did not die, he did not, then, rise from the dead. Paul wrote (I Cor 15:41-45)
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Without his death, Jesus (whom Paul calls the "last Adam" here) couldn't be a life-giving spirit according to orthodox Christian faith.
But hold on. First of all, this is a movie, not the Gospel. Secondly, anything that depicts Mary Magdalene in some light other that the scurrilous accusation that she was a hooker is fine with me. Third, (spoiler), the person in the movie who turns out to be Jesus's descendant actually performs a healing miracle. This kind of stuff slides by quickly in the movie.
Are not all of us Christians part of Jesus's blood-line, at least spiritually and adoptively?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/
There was some really cool stuff in it. How can you hate a movie showing good-looking people running around Paris (and around Europe) being chased by really spooky bad guys on a quest for the Holy Grail? To make it even better, they're trying to solve arcane puzzles involving Isaac Newton and the Gospels.
So, how can anyone hate this?
Oh, yeah, duh, there's a reason to convince yourself you hate this movie. It makes the allegation that Jesus of Nazareth didn't die on Golgotha, but rather went on to raise a family with the woman the Gospels know as Mary Magdalene. This, of course, is a difficult thing for Christian faith to accept -- if Jesus did not die, he did not, then, rise from the dead. Paul wrote (I Cor 15:41-45)
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Without his death, Jesus (whom Paul calls the "last Adam" here) couldn't be a life-giving spirit according to orthodox Christian faith.
But hold on. First of all, this is a movie, not the Gospel. Secondly, anything that depicts Mary Magdalene in some light other that the scurrilous accusation that she was a hooker is fine with me. Third, (spoiler), the person in the movie who turns out to be Jesus's descendant actually performs a healing miracle. This kind of stuff slides by quickly in the movie.
Are not all of us Christians part of Jesus's blood-line, at least spiritually and adoptively?
