The truth behind the Davinci Code

Brown Street Teens

Dan Brown's book The Davinci Code is full of lies and deceiptions. It is important for us as christians to get the truth out.

Here are a few of his so called facts that have been proven false.
1) Dan Brown states that the Priory of Sion was established in 1099 to protect the living descendants of Jesus Christ.ACTUALLY: the Priory of Sion was established in 1956 by a man named Pierre Plantard. Pierre did 6 months in prison for fraud before starting the Priory of Sion. He also later came out and stated that all documents he had that established a bloodline of Jesus were false. When these documents were looked over by historians they were indeed found to be false and the paper they were written on was only 40 years old.
2)Dan Brown also says that the followers of Jesus didn't consider Him a God until the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. ACTUALLY: here are some quotes from christian leaders before 325 A.D.:
Ignatius of Antioch- "For our God, Jesus Christ, was conceived by Mary in accord with God's plan: of the seed of David, it is true, but also of the Holy Spirit." (110 A.D.- 215yrs. before the council)
Tertullian- "God alone is without sin. The only man without sin is Christ; for Christ is also God."
(A.D.210- 125yrs. before the council)
Aposle Paul(I Corinthians 8:6)-" yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him." (55A.D.- 280yrs. before the council)

The Jesus of the Davinci Code was just a man, a teacher. He couldn't save us from our sins, or give eternal life. Actually all we have to do is look up John 3:16, Romans 10:9,and 6:23,IJohn 1:9, and IJohn 2:2, Eph. 2:8-10.

It all comes down to this The Davinci Code is man's word. The Bible is God's word. Who are you going to believe and trust?

Tell your friends about the lies, then tell them the truth about Jesus and what He can do for them.


Thanks,
Carl

Awareness

I thought that since, atleast so far, nobody has signed up for the weekly column, I would take the initiative and post about something that has touched me in recent days.

Science classes in public schools can be so corrupt, especially when you get to that controversal place on the rubric about human life. In my class, we are studying the solar system. You know, each planet, comets, asteroids, black holes, supernovas, blah blah blah and it just keeps going on and on. The galaxy is an absolutly humongous place, full of awesome and amazing things. But while I sit in class, looking at my classmates in aw of the colorful and astounding photographs of the planets and other elements of the galactic world, all I can think about is my Savior and how God created it all. Every grain of star dust, every gas giant, every retrograde revolution, all of it was planned out by MY AMAZING GOD to be just perfect.

Now, unless you own the Hubble Telescope you probably will never glimpse real, detailed scenes of the outerspace with your own two eyes. But God makes himself real even on planet Earth. In so many ways you can get a taste of God's immense power.

Tell us how God has made himself and His great power obvious to you. Just leave a comment :D

Getting Used to It -- Clint's Column for May

Hello group! Thanks for coming to the blogspot. Keep coming back every once in a while to check it out and be encouraged. And be a part of the action -- sign up on the sheet in the youth room to contribute a column!

We're halfway through the month of May already! Hard to believe. In just a few weeks you all will be out of school and enjoying your summer break. The sidebar has some updates on what is coming our way in June. It should be a great month.

Last weekend, we had 12 teens and 6 adults head to Camp Patmos for our annual work weekend. This time we joined a workforce of many people. Our key verse for the weekend was Colossians 3:23 -- "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men." Our group did a great job of working hard at a variety of tasks.

A number of people toiled in the pool during the workday, shoveling out sludge of all sorts throughout the day. The smell was awful!! By the end of the day though, we somehow got a bit used to the stink and the disgusting sights. This made me think of something in the Christian life -- how we can used to the awfulness of sin. Acts and thoughts and words that once seemed disgusting to us can easily become "OK" if we're not careful. The media influences us to think of awful things like premarital sex, drinking, vengefulness, mean words, and the like as if they're OK for us. To be healthy Christians, sin needs to "stink" -- like something we don't want to enjoy or touch.

God's Word tells us that "to fear the Lord is to hate evil" (Proverbs 8:13), and it commands us to "hate what is evil and cling to what is good" (Romans 12:9). Let's keep encouraging each other to desire holiness, and never get comfortable wallowing in the sludge of sin.

Go BSBC Youth'ers! Live for Jesus!!


Clint