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The message of the Da Vinci code 


 

Contents

Foreword
Close-up of Dan Brown
Dan Brown tells about his book
The story begins
The Cilice
Opus Dei
Leonardo Da Vinci
Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail

 

 

 

The story begins

 

The story of The Da Vinci Code begins when Jacques Sauniére, curator in the museum of Louvre is killed on the floor of the museum. Before his death Sauniére drew with his own blood a picture of pentagram on his body. Robert Langdon who is a professor religious symbolism at Howard University is called. This is where the story of the book begins, a story filled with excitement, action, symbolism, secret societies and search for the Grail.

 

 

Pentagram

 

Dan Brown writes about the pentagram as follows:

 

- It is a pagan religious symbol

- Pentagram is a pre-Christian symbol related to nature worship

- Pentagram represents the feminine side of everything, a concept which is sacred femininity or sacred mother goddess

- Most accurately the pentagram symbolizes Venus, the goddess of woman’s sexual love and feminine beauty

- The goddess Venus and planet Venus are the one and the same thing

- The goddess had several names: Venus, Star of the East, Istar, Astarte

 

Regarding the history of the pentagram Dan Brown is also right at some points because it has really been regarded as the symbol of Venus goddess. The pentagram was also used when worshipping Venus goddess. Today also satan worshippers use the pentagram. There is an interesting connection here since the demon world under satan’s leadership has deceived mankind for thousands of years, and it always leaves it’s own traces on it’s worship. Every generation then follows these traces perhaps giving new meanings and connections to things but the origin is the same and the practical realization is the same, that is to stay deceived and beyond God’s saving hand. This also shows that both the ancient Venus worshippers and today’s satan worshippers serve and follow satan since both groups do not worship the God of the Bible but a false god.

The Bible itself testifies that the God of the Bible is true God and other gods are false gods. This is evident from the fact that the Bible tells about the origin of the world and creation of human beings and the early history of mankind to the very end of it. The revelations if other religions are not capable of doing this. The Bible also says that one day Jesus will return and then all the people in the world can see him. The Bible also tells about great devastations on the earth before the return of Messiah Jesus. We are living near the times when Jesus comes back. We know that from the signs of the time, read Matthew chapter 24.

 

Dan Brown writes in his book that associating the pentagram with the devil is wrong from historical perspective because the original meaning of the pentagram referring to femininity is right. At this point Dan was mistaken because the pentagram was used when worshipping Venus goddess. The Bible teaches that the Almighty God is the real Creator God and other gods are false gods. That is why also the pentagram is a satanic symbol because behind the Venus goddess is an evil spirit called satan. Venus worshipping was concentrated on sexual love and explicitly sexually idolizing feminine beauty. As well today satan worshippers idolize sex and feminine beauty. The ancient Venus goddess worship and today’s satan worship share two distinctive signs which are the pentagram and sex orgies. The Venus goddess worship and satan worship have the same symbolism and same spirit (satanic spirit) that leads people to free sex and sex orgies. So, the question is of the same spirit and of the same end which is deceiving a man away from the truth through worshipping false gods.

 

 

Sacred femininity

 

So, The Da Vinci Code begins with a symbol rebus which represents a symbol of a goddess and of sacred femininity. This subject is one of the leading motives of the book, that is to elevate and highlight a goddess and sacred femininity while at the same time giving Jesus Christ a small and insignificant role (which I will write later more about). Also, the book gives a false picture of Jesus.

This elevation of femininity fits like a glove today when the wind of apostasy blows heavily in the Christendom. Brown’s book is a powerful and influential spokesman for the ordination of women when the ministry of the shepherd of the church rests also on women’s shoulders. The Bible teaches that the ministry of the shepherd in the church belongs to men and not to women and the question is not about subjecting or oppressing women but the will of God. Dan Brown’s book is also like made to order for the boom of elevating feminism which is prevalent in our days. Women are splendid creatures of God, and they are not to be subjected or discriminated. But we are also to honour God ordained rules regarding church life. Leading a church is a ministry that demands being subjected to great stress because the prince of this world attacks with all powers lying against the truth of God’s word and against the true servants of God. In his mercy God has seen to fit to spare a woman the pressure and has kept that pressure up to men. Thus God’s choice is for and not against a woman. Men are built the way that it is their portion to be also “a rubbish heap and a pressure cooker” and let, they have their portion by the grace of God.

 

Church Institution

 

Dan brings up in his book that before the church age began people traditionally worshiped goddesses and the Constantine converted the world from matriarchal heathenism to patriarchal Christianity and labeled the sacred femininity as satanic. Dan also wrote that the church’s campaign against femininity had lasted for three hundred years.

In reality the church partly abandoned heathenism but partly preserved it because they acted the way the evil reads the Bible, and because they founded a religious institution religion and not the church. Church as religious institution is not the church of God and that is why the religious institution was indeed driven to oppress women.

When the Roman Empire was born and developed, the religious life in Rome was led by the high priest (Pontifex Maximus). While the Roman Empire was enlarging the Romans began to worship the gods of the nations they had conquered. The Roman religion was mixed with the Egyptian, Syrian, Persian and Babylonian religions. In the Roman Empire, a complete mixture of religions was developed (syncretism). While the religious life was so motley, the Romans made it mandatory to worship the Caesar which made the Caesar divine and so there arose from sacral kingship in Rome, too (emperorship).

The Romans believed that the gods influence and rule on the seven hills of Rome: “De septem montibus virum”. This became a concept to the Romans; the noble city of seven hills that rules the whole world. The Romans believed they were to rule the whole world under the lead of the high priest of Jupiter (Pontifex Maximus). Symmachus, who was the high priest of Rome (Pontifex Maximus) called himself the man of seven mountains. This term, the man of seven mountains, has remained in history books because it has been found in the letters of that time that the high priest (Pontifex Maximus) is called such a name. The Romans think that the world can be led only by the one who rules in Rome, the city of seven hills. Julius Caesar got the tittle Pontifex Maximus and so also the Caesars began to use this tittle of themselves. The Caesars led the state and also the religious life in Rome, after all, the Caesar was the head of the religion, the high priest (Pontifex Maximus).

Constantine the Great “converted” to Christianity in 312 A.D. and he as the high priest (Pontifex Maximus) brought into the use the name Vicarius Christi (substitute for Christ). The new religion of Constantine became the Roman catholic (common, general) church. The Roman citizens were made Christians without repentance and conversion. A part of the early church too went astray in this catholic religion which became the new religion of Rome. As the head of this new religion Constantine had church buildings built for the “Christians” but at the same time he consecrated pagan temples. At first, the catholic religion on Constantine contained a lot of freedom, and it approved of many kinds of differences but little by little the catholic church (RELIGION) infiltrated more and more pagan doctrines and rites into the so called catholic Christianity of Rome. So, the Roman Catholic Church was born three hundred years after the early church had seen the light. The Roman Catholic Church is a miserable and transparent false imitation of the church of God. What would be more pleasant to satan than create a “church” of his own and claim it to be the church of God though in reality it is a church institution dressed in paganism, and it has perverted the truth and made the truth a lie and a lie “the truth”. Would not this kind of plan and realization of it be a satanic master piece that would lead many to eternal destruction? Yes, it would be, and it is because the Catholic Church is exactly that kind of organization. In the past the church institution made crusades killing people. Since many think that the church institution is the church revealed in the Bible, they were under the misguided impression that it was Jesus’ disciples who made those atrocious deeds. But behind those atrocious deeds were religious butchers that is, the church institution imitating the church of God. A true disciple of Jesus will not take part in the sword mission or other bloodshed of that kind.

When the world erroneously thinks that the Catholic Church is the church of God, the real master of the Catholic Church can carry on there with all powers of lying leading its’ priests into pedophile and other sex scandals etc. The world says: “Phooey, shame on you. And you say that you are believers.” Satan smiles contentedly when, because of all the perversion and sin in the church institution, people rather avoid faith and God. But all these avoiding people do not realize that the church institution really is like a museum of Babylonian paganism that offers its’ members rites of paganism for church taxes. It is sad that somebody pays for being eternally destructed, and that masses will be too without paying church taxes is as sad.

 

 

Church or church institution?

 

The Greek word for church is ekklesia and it means the called out and the church. Jesus said that people should repent and believe the Gospel. Here is a call to come out of darkness and the slavery of sin and born again by the grace of God into the church of God, ekklesia. Kyriakos, Kyriakon means the Lord. The institutional church teaches that it is from the word Kyriakos, Kyriakon that the word church is derived, which means the church institution, the people of God.

The religious church institution does not call people out of the world but call people in to their church institution without repentance through water babtism. The word for “church” in the Bible is ekklesia, which means the church, Jesus' disciples. Kyriakon means the Lord, not the church or church instution, which has the word ekklesia for it. The word Kyriakos occurs twice in the New Testament:

 

1.Cor.11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord’s (Kyriakon) supper.

 

The word Kyriakon occurs as the word Lord’s, which means Jesus Christ, not the church.

 

Rev.1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s  (Kyriake) day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

 

The word Kyriake means the Lord that is Jesus Christ and not the church. The concept of “church” based on the word  Kyriakos, Kyriakon,  taught by the Roman Catholic church, is thus without any grounds, and it does not mean the church (ekklesia) or owned by the Lord but the word Kyriakos means the Lord in those two verses in the New Testament. When the New Testament talks about the church, it uses the word ekklesia, not Kyriakos.

 

The Catholic Catechism teaches about the church in the following way:

 

882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful."402 "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.

816 "The sole Church of Christ [is that] which our Savior, after his Resurrection, entrusted to Peter's pastoral care, commissioning him and the other apostles to extend and rule it. . . . This Church, constituted and organized as a society in the present world, subsists in (subsistit in) the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him."267

The Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism explains: "For it is through Christ's Catholic Church alone, which is the universal help toward salvation, that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained. It was to the apostolic college alone, of which Peter is the head, that we believe that our Lord entrusted all the blessings of the New Covenant, in order to establish on earth the one Body of Christ into which all those should be fully incorporated who belong in any way to the People of God."

 

 

There is no such thing in the Bible at all, and you cannot find the concept of the church that the Catholic Church teaches in the Hebrew or the Greek Scriptures. The Bible teaches that the church of God is the group of people who believe in Jesus Christ and who gather together to build up each other in mutual faith. The institutional church, on the other hand, is something that you become a member of through a manmade ritual of infant baptism. The institutional church began to take form when Constantine the Great mixed up the religions that influenced in Rome and Christianity. The institutional church and the church of God are two different things that are not to be mixed up. In 381 Rome declared Christianity the official religion of the state of Rome. The new religion of Rome was named the Roman Catholic Church. But the church of God of the New Covenant was born at Pentecost more than three hundred years earlier than the Roman Catholic church.

 

 

The Tower of Babel and apostasy today

 

Dan Brown emphasizes the sacred femininity and the goddess in his book. The message of Dan’s book of the sacred femininity and the goddess is the same propagation that was propagated in ancient Babylon.

The Tower of Babel was being built in the land of Shinar when there was only one language upon the earth. The tower of Babel and the religion that revolved around it aimed to get the whole world to join this idol worship. After the Flood the religion of Babel was the main religion in the world, and it is the original source of world’s false religions, too. That is why God confound the language of the peoples and scattered them from there all over the earth so that the whole world would not be defiled by this religion of satan. The Tower of Babel was dedicated to idol worship. In the religion that was practiced in the Tower of Babel, they worshiped the sun. Nimrod was the ruler of Babel and after his death his mother took the leadership in the religion of Babel. The Babylonians were very interested in astronomy, and they sanctified Sunday as the Sun’s day (Sunday) and Monday as the Moon’s day and the rest of the five days they sanctified for other planets. When Semiramus was the head of the religion in Babel he began to teach that Nimrod had become the god of the Sun that is Baal. When Semiramus became pregnant, he gave birth to a son whom she named Tammus and who was worshiped as the god of the Sun. Semiramus began to also teach that she was a virgin. As a result of this Semiramus developed a mother-child cult, and it began to be symbolized by a mother (Semiramus) holding a child (Tammus) on her arms. A moon was put over the mother’s head and the halo of the Sun over the child’s head. Semiramus raised herself to the Queen of Heaven in this religion of Babel, and she was to be prayed to and worshiped as the Queen of Heaven through whom people were saved.

 

Thus in Babylon they worshipped the mother goddess and the Queen of Heaven and so rebelled against God. In his word God has revealed himself as Father and also Jesus spoke about God as Father. Satan turned the things upside down in Babylon (first of course satan deceived man in Paradise and made him fall into sin) where he deceived mankind to worship the mother goddess instead of Father the God. This is satan’s tactic and method, to turn the things upside down and make the lie appear as the “truth” and the truth as the lie. The first religion of mankind which satan used to deceive mankind was the mother queen religion (the Queen of Heaven). The Bible prophesies that Jesus will come back and take his people away from the earth and in the aftermath of that this present globe will be destroyed. The last deception of mankind will also be the rise of the mother queen religion to deceive mankind globally. Against this background Dan Brown’s book was like ordered from the printing house of depth and evilness just to this present time. I do not believe in accident but that the Da Vinci Code book in its’ own way works as a mouthpiece of apostasy and evilness in this sinful world.

 

Subjection of woman

 

Dan Brown points out in his book that the picture that the Catholic Church teaches about Eve who has to atone for the sin of paradise for ever is the picture that the Catholic Church (and Opus Dei particularly) has created and from that follows the subjection of woman in the Catholic Church. On the other hand, he states that the majority of the catholic are moving to right direction in relation to women’s rights.
This is where Dan Brown is right about, since the Roman Catholic Church has viewed a woman in extremely disparaging ways when e.g. debating upon the question if woman has a soul, viewing woman as seductress, burning women at the stake and many other things. But we have to understand that the Roman Catholic Church is a religious institution and not the church taught by the word of God. That is why the Catholic Church and the values it represents to have subjected women. The Bible teaches that every husband is to love his wife the same way as Christ loves the church. The Bible also shows that Jesus and the apostles appreciated and respected women. Thus Biblical faith regards women highly but does not teach anything about worshipping a goddess, of course.
 

Father or mother?

 

In the Hebrew Bible, there is the name EL SHADDAI (The Almighty). The Hebrew word shad means a breast (of a woman) and because of this some have come to a conclusion that God is a woman or represents a goddess. But the Bible does not teach that God is a man or a woman, but God, Creator and Father. God created the man in his own image, that includes male and female, but God is neither of them nor is he united male-female or female-male, but he is God, Spirit, who is much higher than a human being. God cannot be described like a human being, since God is eternal Spirit who has created the man and his life. God calls himself Father several times in the Old Testament scriptures, also Jesus called God Father. Thus God has wanted to call himself Father and that is why it is a sin, and it is wrong to call Him a goddess.

 

God does not have any old score to settle with women nor are men his special favourites, even though He calls himself Father. The Bible teaches that put of the loins of Abraham that is out of his seed will become a great nation and blessing. The seed out of Abraham’s loins moved into Sarah’s womb, out of which Isaac was born and then after many generations the great blessing was born of Abraham’s descendants: Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps here is the reason why God wants himself to be called Father because out of the loins of a father a seed will move into a mother’s womb, so the starting point and beginning of life comes from a man (the father), out of whom it moves into a woman’s womb. The question is not that God discriminates against women but God has chosen the father and father’s seed to symbolize the beginning and the origin of life. God (the Father) himself is the originator of all the life, that is why He chose the word Father to show His position as the originator of life. And the question is not about men’s desire to subject women and exercise patriarchal power but God’s own choice and will.

 

In his book Dan Brown emphasizes sacred feminity in which a woman’s womb acts as the giver of life. This emphasis also knocks down the truth that in reality the Father God is the one who originates life and is life’s Creator and who uses the womb as one tool when originating human life.

 

Feminity

 

Feminity and being a woman is not a worse or better thing than masculinity and being a man. The Bible teaches that both of them, the woman as well as the man fell into sin in Paradise so neither is worse nor better than the other but both are as much sinners before God.

However, in his book Dan Brown lays emphasis on sacred feminity the way that it raises the woman and the goddess with noble words and while men and Jesus get minor roles. Thus, Dan Brown’s book is not equal between a man and woman, since there does not exist any sacred feminity but sinful men and women who are deceived by satan, using e.g. this sacred feminity story and the mother goddess worship. The Bible’s picture of man is equal because both men and women are as sinful before God and when they become saved by the grace of God, they are both as equal righteous (forgiven) before God.






Petri Paavola from Finland




Sources:

Finnish Bible 33/38
Old King James version
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