Further to this, I want to make a number of points:
If you've come here to bash Catholicism, or any denomination of Christianity, or any religion, leave now.
I haven't read or seen Da Vinci Code and have zero interest in it. It's irrelevant to my posting and this thread.
All the "Gnostic" gospels have only reappeared very recently; scholars have only had half a century to analyse them, not two thousand years.
The kind of scholarship we have today is totally different to the scholarship available to early Christians. I recently read with interest that the sayings of Mohammed were carefully judged, not by scholarly means, but by the reputation of the witnesses who claimed they were correct. Without carbon dating or textual analysis, what else could they do?
The Bible does not contradict itself. Anyone who has told you otherwise was misinformed.
Interestingly, the NY Review states that the "The Gospel of John... readjust[s] the timing of the crucifixion, so that it takes place not on the day after Passover, but on the day of the Passover meal itself..."
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If you've come here to bash Catholicism, or any denomination of Christianity, or any religion, leave now.
I haven't read or seen Da Vinci Code and have zero interest in it. It's irrelevant to my posting and this thread.
All the "Gnostic" gospels have only reappeared very recently; scholars have only had half a century to analyse them, not two thousand years.
The kind of scholarship we have today is totally different to the scholarship available to early Christians. I recently read with interest that the sayings of Mohammed were carefully judged, not by scholarly means, but by the reputation of the witnesses who claimed they were correct. Without carbon dating or textual analysis, what else could they do?
The Bible does not contradict itself. Anyone who has told you otherwise was misinformed.
Interestingly, the NY Review states that the "The Gospel of John... readjust[s] the timing of the crucifixion, so that it takes place not on the day after Passover, but on the day of the Passover meal itself..."