Christians: If the assertions in the Da Vinci Code were actually true would it make a difference in your fai?

Question

IE. if Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a family would it change your faith in him? Personally, for me it wouldn't, simply because it would not change who he was or what he did. I would also not begrudge him the companionship of a wife.

Note, I am a Christian, and I am curious to hear other's ideas on this question.

Answer 1

No matter who wrote a book, even Billy Graham, I would not take the information in it over the Word of God.
IF the Bible actually said that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, then it would show a man that waited until marriage to have sex and a man that never lusted after another woman. A man that truely loved His wife the way Christ loved the church. But wait...no woman is worth loving that much.
Why would Mary Magdalene be the woman that would have that kind of blessing?
If married, Jesus wouldn't be here to do what He was sent to do. He would be here to satisfy earthly desires. God wants us to get married if it means that we would serve Him better than we do as a single. The spouse is meant to "complete" us. Jesus doesn't have to be "completed" because He is God. I never thought about this until you asked it.
I'm a divorced person who is now a Christ-follower. The only way I can have self-control in that area is because I know that Christ did it and because Jesus completes me until/if I find an earthly husband to do it. Believe me, it is only by God's grace and my desire to not disgrace His name that I am able to abstain.

Answer 2

Which parts of it? If Jesus married and had a child, I don't know that it would destroy the Christian faith. He was God in human form, and experienced all the same desires, temptations, joys, hungers, etc as anyone else. So I'm sure that feelings of love for a woman must have been among them at some point.

But that's not the real issue with the DiVinci Code. It claims that Jesus was not divine, that his marriage was intended to restore goddess worship, that sex for sex's sake is the highest form of whorship. It's all garbage.

Dan Brown's book is a page turner, which held my attention most of the way. He appeared to be asking some serious questions, to be building to some big earth-shattering revelation of truth. And in the end all he could give us was a group people having an orgy in a basement and somehow claiming that was the ultimate spiritual experience that would redeem the world. It turned into just anothe sordid sex story. Another excuse for adultry, fornication, pornography, etc.

Forgetting the religious slander in the book. In the end Brown couldn't get his mind out of the gutter. It was disappointing.

Answer 3

It wouldn't change a thing for me. There is a lot if things that are not explained. (To Shazzam, Jesus was a human...)

What really gets me, though, is when the movie came out, I heard a sermon blasting all that is wrong with the book, and it made me very confused. I wanted to yell out that the book (and thus, the movie) is a work of fiction, and anyone who thinks otherwise wouldn't be in the church anyway. If he had wanted to go through the "list of facts" in the front of the book, then I wouldn't have had a problem. At least that is put out there as fact, and could be disputed.

Answer 4

That is a good question.

It will not change the way I feel about Jesus. To me he still was the Son of God, who came here to save the world and teach us to love each other. Jesus was here as human being and therefore could have had a wife and kids which is fine. Not sure why people make a big deal out of this.

Answer 5

No it would make no difference.{I believe it is true} have not seen movie nor read book however from my own research which i do extensively Mary was his closest disciple.we have the "missing years"of Jesus life,I believe that is when he married.In no way does that take way from His Holiness, He was made flesh.The
Father Almighty told us be fruitful.To fill the earth.There is no sin no evil in marriage.It is a misconception that Mary was a prostitute.Jesus is the begotten Son, my savior, very holy,and seated at the right hand of Our father

Answer 6

Da Vinci?

Christianity? Jesus? Dying?

What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?

(NOT A VIRGIN BIRTH! - betcha never knew that.)

Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .

If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.

Gods do not die? Do they?

If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?

Did Jesus give up Saturday for us? Big deal!

If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.

If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!

If you swallow this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too.

Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.

Believing and not thinking is like choosing a mental illness and becoming lost.

Answer 7

I think that even if Christians had all the evidence in the world that Jesus had a child they still wouldnt accept it....There is alot of evidence now that he was just a man rather then the son of god and people still don't accept that.

Answer 8

Well,... many christians believe that throughout Jesus' life he experienced and turned away from EVERY temptation that humans can experience to teach us how to live holy lives...

How could he have experienced the temptation to choke his wife if he was never married?

Answer 9

Yes it would change things for me and a lot of people because then Jesus would be a human not a figure of God.

Answer 10

I think the Da Vinci Code is a load of bull s h i t!!!

Answer 11

It wouldn't at all. Actually, I would feel Him closer to us, because he lived, experienced and suffer some of the things that we do today. And I totally agree that it wouldn't change what he did or what he was :)