ABOUT THE LOST TOMB OF JESUS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE DA VINCI CODE? IS THE MOVIE AS BAD AS THE BOOK?

HOW DARK THE CON OF MAN: SOME RESPONSES TO THE DA VINCI CODE WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A DA VINCI CODE BELIEVER?

WHAT'S MISSING FROM THE DA VINCI CODE? WHAT'S THE SECRET? THE WITCH KILLING FRENZIES

THE ORIGIN OF THE "HOLY GRAIL" THE SACRED FEMININE

Amy Welborn

What do you say to a Da Vinci Code Believer? Continued

They say….it’s the bigger truth that matters. It doesn’t matter what particular version of the Jesus story you pick. You need to pick the one that’s right for you, that fits your spiritual needs. That’s why The Da Vinci Code is important. It encourages people to do that.

You say…the crucial issue in The Da Vinci Code isn’t “spiritual truth.” It’s history. And the fact is the story of early Christianity is not a total mash of conflicting, yet perhaps all equally true, accounts.

More over, most people are interested in basing their views and opinions, as much as possible, on reality. When we’re in a relationship or friendship, just “believing in the truth” of the relationship doesn’t work. It’s based on the reality of the lives we live together – what we really say, what we really do – our real histories.

It’s the same with religion. Faith is, indeed, a step forward in trust. But it’s not blind, and Christians have never described it this way. Our faith is built on what the apostles said about Jesus. We believe what they said was true, we move forward in faith, and, we believe, we encounter the real Jesus along the way, just as they did, through the Scriptures, through prayer and through sacrament.

No, not everything can be true all at the same time. Either Jesus was Lord or he wasn’t. We know what the early Christians believed – there’s no question about that. It’s not up to us, if we have any intellectual integrity at all, to just make up another story that pleases us. If we don’t like what the early apostolic witnesses said, we don’t have to listen. But if we do have that intellectual integrity at work, and if we are interested in Jesus and his movement….we do. The decision we make at the end is ours to make. But at the beginning, we do have to listen to the witnesses who were there and what they passed on about what they saw.

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