The War Behind The Da Vinci Code – Part 3

Copyright 2008 By Kirby Robinson
Prior to moving onto the meaning behind the two different nativity stories I would like to point out three additional things about Mary, the mother of Christ.

1. Many Christians and non-Muslims do not realize that within the Koran (Qur’an), the Holy Book of the Muslim faith, there are two major sections dedicated to the Virgin Birth and life of Mary.
2. In a gospel that failed to make it into the Canon of the New Testament, “The Gospel of the Birth of Mary” gives us even more insight into the gifts of Mary that she started to teach the Rabbis in the temple things they didn’t know and many miracles of healing as well as her breasts produced milk throughout her life that had healing qualities.
3. Mary is the emanation of White Tara, the Tibetan female version of the Buddha of Compassion.

Many point out that the two nativity stories of Luke and Matthew do not follow the same storyline. Thus the whole story is false, and this whole Son of God business is a myth.

We live in a post enlightenment world ruled by the questions of “what is real?” and “what is possible?” verified by experimentation and proof. While the Gospels came about in a pre modern world ruled by the questions “how do we know?” and “what is real?” often backed up by faith and inner knowing. Sadly, today, we say for truth to be true there must be facts to back it up.

The world that the Gospels of Luke and Matthew was penned in, was a very different world. There was no press, public libraries, internet, etc., to keep track of events, time, places, peoples memories are clouded by outlook, mindset, etc. Both Luke and Matthew agree on the central themes of the Nativity, they differ on the latter events. It seems that Matthew tends to be more accurate with his presentation of the Birth Story as we are about to read.

Once Joseph learned of the threats to the life of Christ, the Holy Family avoids assassins by fleeing to Egypt. This is where the Da Vinci Code conspiracy is understandable if His time in Egypt was not documented in any way they would not be hurt by this part of Matthew. But it is documented, many just have not heard about it.

The Coptic Church of Egypt has maintained through documentation that the flight of the Holy Family throughout Egypt, and within these texts we see the signs of the unusual nature of the Christ child.

Point 1 – He was speaking like a young adult within a few days of His birth.
Point 2 – He healed the sick; cast out demons, caused the blind to see, the lame to walk, and the dead to rise.
Point 3 – Jesus produced food and water sources out of nothing.
Point 4 – Goddesses and God statues of Demigods either broke in His presence or bowed as He passed. And some temples were even documented to crumble to their foundations.

A great source of additional information can be found in Paul Perry’s book, “Jesus In Egypt.”

About four years later, the Holy Family receives the news that King Herod is dead. They return to Israel thus Jesus becomes the new Moses, the old brought the Law to the land while Christ was about to bring freedom to the land.

Now we come to the childhood of Jesus Christ, again we are told we know nothing about these years prior to his first teaching in the temple. Wrong. If we take a quick look at the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which begins at the age of five, shortly after the arrival from Egypt, we see a young boy struggling with being a man and God at the same time, and the powers and abilities that come with such a mixture. Jesus is exposed to countless teachers but none yet can teach Him anything He doesn’t already know. Hence He ends up being their teacher, thus shattering the Da Vinci Code backers claim that Christ was just a normal child. He had ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE INSIDE OF HIM and was taught by God. Why is there a need for Him to travel around the world and copy any teaching or magical tricks as many today tried to claim He did? The reason they need to do this is if they can convince us He was just a man we will begin to value His teachings as just the teachings of a normal person who is simply passing on what he has learned. And they work additionally hard to get our mind focused off of Mother Mary and replace her with Mary Magdalene, asking us to replace perfection with imperfection. In addition, they must come up with some possible reason that Jesus came in contact with the Gnostic philosophy, and a side note here, which would be hard because there is little likelihood that it even existed at the time of Christ’s life.

Much is also made of Christ’s teaching in the temple as a child. Again, the conspiracy people say that this is proof that Christ was from a wealthy and royal family. What it does really prove is that at this temple a few years earlier, Mary graced the building and Rabbis learned from her special knowledge. If she were such a special teacher, then would it not make sense that her child was the same?

We now come to three very important events when it comes to the Da Vinci Code conspirators’ claims.
1. The 40 days in the desert and His confrontation with the devil.
2. John the Baptist baptizing Jesus.
3. The water into wine miracle.

Many have tried to downplay the importance of Christ’s 40 days of fasting in the desert and His battle there with the devil. As I mentioned in Part 2, God can’t know the final outcome. The first battle in the desert was the initial phase in the Final Confrontation yet to come after the Crucifixion, and in the depths of hell. Christ in the desert rejects all the temptations of the flesh that the devil tosses his way and he finally banishes the devil. Thus He began to change, and as Paul would write, “He put away the things of his youth and picked up the responsibilities of his manhood.”

Thus He knows that He must be baptized in public, and he seeks out John the Baptist. Now those consistent conspirators make note of the fact that John the Baptist does not recognize Christ. Thus, they say, see, this story’s made up. John the Baptist had seen the Christ, the one who was a boy, but had yet to see the Christ that was now a man. He was not the same, but a new man full of energy and perfection.

Finally, the water into the wine miracle. This, they claim, proves He was married to Mary Magdalene. That’s why he made the wine. Once again, a simple reading of the story shows that Jesus Christ was always and will always show kindness. The wine was simply running out and He gave the guests a “new” wine that symbolizes the fresh wine of Christ as a replacement for the bitter grapes that the world had tasted up until that time.

Next week we will focus on the final two topics of the war behind the Da Vinci Code: Mary Magdalene the manufacturing of a myth, and Christ’s Death on the cross.