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her?” The mystery of that marriage is very excitement because it seems like that the world will never know about that marriage.
Kissing on the mouth is an action which can only be done for a married couple. Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code does not mention a quotation from Thomas
Gospel, when Peter said, “Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life.’ Jesus said, ‘I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a
living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.’”
3.2 The Responses of Christian Figures
A. Darrel L. Bock Darrel L. Bock is a bachelor from the Gospel study of the New Testament. He
is also a professor for a research who comes from Theological University of Dallas in US. Bock got his PhD from The University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
His works about the essay of the blasphemy act and God’s glorification is his collection. That is Judaism and the Final Examination of Jesus.
Bock is a former chairman of the Evangelical Theological Society. Now, he is an editor of Christianity Today magazine and he often publishes article in the Los
Angeles Time and Dallas Morning News. Lately, Bock is better known with his work that relates to the Dan Brown’s
book, The Da Vinci Code. In responding to the implication of that theology book, Bock also writes Breaking the Da Vinci Code. His books opposites the history that
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relates to the Gospels with some views found in The Da Vinci Code. Particularly, it is about the Jesus marriage with Magdalene.
Bock also writes articles on beliefnet.com and christianitytoday.com. The latest book of Bock is The Missing Gospel that denies the existence and legitimacy of
Christian Orthodoxy who is not legitimates the Church Law and its study. Darrel L. Bock argues that the conclusion about Jesus marriage with a woman
named Mary Magdalene is created frivolously. How can we conclude about a phenomenon in a history text only based on the narrative of its text? Moreover, the
Gospel is about from thousand years ago. Logically, it will able to get some diversion of language. It is because the Bible is translated from Hebrew to the Latin. Then, it is
also translated to the EnglishFrench that used by Dan Brown. Dan Brown also makes another controversial conclusion. He says that the
Merovingian dynasty is a dynasty that comes from Jesus and Marry Magdalene’s generation. After Jesus is crucified, some loyal disciples of Jesus run off Mary
Magdalene and her children from Jesus to out from Jerusalem. After a stop in some places, Marry Magdalene settles in the region of Languedoc, south of France. She
stays in the Rennes le Chateau village that becomes the first research place of Dan Brown.
After the generation of Marry Magdalene mingles with the local people, they also spread up their population till the Viking, Germania, Visigoth area and others.
They build and empire and a dynasty that named Merovingian. The founder of the Merovingian dynasty is the generations of Mary Magdalene with Jesus. It explains
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the reason why the Kings of Merovingian dynasty is treated as a king-priest, a pure king who does not only acts as a symbol of the country but also act as the spiritual
leader for their society. Regardless from Dan Brown’s controversy about the marriage of Jesus, Darrel
L. Bock takes his attitudes against the personal of Jesus: 1 JesusIsa is someone who brings the Holy messages from the Almighty God and it
makes him being sacred regardless from the fact of His marriage. 2 The holiness of JesusIsa should be become the orientation of Christians who
believe in the existence of JesusIsa. The Christians should not use the Holiness of Jesus to sharpen who believe in His presence.
B. Erwin Lutzer Erwin Lutzer was born on October 3, 1941 in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was
the fifth son of Gustav and Wanda Lutzer. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg Bible and the Dallas University, Texas. He graduated in 1967. Now, Erwin
Lutzer is a senior pastor in the Moody Church in Chicago, US. Erwin Lutzer argues that one of the sources that use by Dan Brown in writing
The Da Vinci Code book is the Lincoln’s book Holy Blood Grail-Holy Grail. The most significant thing in the book is about the around Jesus life, such as
the question about the marriage of Jesus and Jesus child. It is also the question about Mary Magdalene’s status as Jesus wife and Jesus generation.
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Such a question like: Does Jesus marry? The early assumption that used by Dan Brown is about Jesus is a Jew, it is a prophet and a Rabbi. While both written
and unwritten Jewish Law, it is a must for a young Jew to get marriage if they have been in the puberty age. There is also the written Jewish Law says that a man can be a
Rabbi, if he has already married. From this perspective, it means that Jesus must marry.
On the other hand, the Bible and other sources which do not explicitly state that Jesus gets marriage. Another source from the Apocrypha book also implicitly
states that Jesus gets marriage. Then, it is said also that the Jesus wife is Mary Magdalene. Magdalene is described in the Bible as the woman who anoints the Jesus
feet and watches the Jesus death on cross. She is also the first woman who comes to the Jesus tomb. The church makes mistakes for thousand years in describing Mary
Magdalene as a prostitute. Magdalene marries with Jesus and they have children. After the death of
Jesus, Magdalene with the Jesus disciples run off to the Southern of French Gaul that in habited by Jewish settles for many years. In there, the Jesus generations spread
up and they have link to the Merovingian dynasty. It is lead by Frank as the King in the 6-7
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century. Holy Grail is the symbol of Jesus generation. It is no a Banquet if it interprets literally.
Is that story true? Dan Brown uses the disclosure of facts that are strong enough. He uses a wide several evidences and facts from the writings and documents
in the medieval century. He also hunts information to the historians and the even
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perpetrators that can be trusted. The biggest weakness in the one of Dan Brown’s statement: “the Bible New Testament is the book that has altered, changed,
republished and edited in accordance with the needs of the Church at that time. So, the Bible does not be a source that is trusted in revealing the story of Jesus life.
The strength of Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code is he does not take the conclusions but says that there is a kind of hypothesis. The hypothesis has not proven
right and still related to a relationship that has not been strong. Does the hypothesis in The Da Vinci Code affect the people’s faith
Christians? According to Erwin Lutzer, it is not a problem, if the proof of a history is in the opposite of the faith. The proof of Jesus marriage and have a child can not
destroy the faith of Christians. Of course, there are something dreaded in the book that makes a too much reactions from the Church and religious. Too much reaction
make the facts are distorted. C. Martin Lunn
Martin Lunn is a recognized expert in the Davidic bloodline and other issues presented in The Da Vinci Code. He has a master’s degree in history and an extensive
background in journalism. He has lived throughout the Far and Middle East, the US and several countries in Europe, currently residing in Barcelona. He is also Grand
Master of the Dragon Society, founded originally in 1408 by King Sigismund of Hungary.
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Martin Lunn argues that the Roman Catholic Church feels highlighted and looks not happy with that critical highlight because of The Da Vinci Code book. The
Church defends their followers over the 2000 years and feels happy to know that their faith runs without any evidence.
The Da Vinci Code is a successful novel not only because its honesty, but because the murderer story in that book. It is also because Dan Brown evokes the
readers to see “the truth”. He stimulates the readers to increase the knowledge about it and also makes dissatisfaction to always find out what happen in the end of the novel.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was published in 2003. The book is followed by the film that adapts from the novel and has the same title with the novel.
The Da Vinci Code film plays simultaneously around the world. For some Christians, particularly Catholics, this novel and this film are the fiction that can rock the faith.
The fuss of The Da Vinci Code relates some description about the fundamental aspects of Christian’s belief. The novel and the film contain many ideas
which not embrace the main of theology. For example, the book tells that JesusIsa is not God, but only a human. Before the fourth century, Jesus is considered only as
human, but the Empire of Roman Emperor at that time, Constantine, defies Jesus according to his old paganism.
Not less suspenseful, Jesus also is told that he has been married to Mary Magdalene who then conceives and gives birth to his child. Therefore, she should
have got more respect. Until this time, still in plot of Brown’s fiction, Jesus lineage from Magdalene still exists in Europe. Brown imagination still soars, play between
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fact and fiction. Now, an underground community, Priory of Sion still glorifies the figure of Magdalene and the mysterious truth trying to keep it. For centuries, the
Catholic Church has tried to cover up that “truth”, don’t even hesitate to kill people who seek revealed them.
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4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 4.1 Conclusions
