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Why the Da Vinci Code is True!
A summary of Paul Smith's teaching in June, 2006, at Broadway Church, Kansas City, MO. The Da Vinci Code is a cultural
phenomena, broadly attacked in many countries. I have found that while Dan Brown tells his story encased in the facts and
falsehoods of fiction, his underlying theme is true.+Attacking that theme by attacking the bad facts is like accusing Jesus
of making up the story of the Prodigal Son and therefore there is no truth in it.
The Da Vinci Code's absolutely truth-filled underlying theme is that there has been a real historical cover-up in the
Christian faith in four crucial areas.
The first is the cover-up of the original Christianities, the great diversity of belief which evolved from Jesus' teaching
in the first 150 years. We have been taught that our orthodox faith of today is like a single tree rooted and grounded in
the apostles from the very beginning. But now we discover it was originally more like a grove of diverse trees, with one tree
finally crowding out the rest as these diverse Christianities evolved into a single fourth century orthodox version. The winners
then rewrote history, as they always do, to cover-up the original diversity and evolutionary progression.
The second cover-up was of the lost gospels. The winners banned all the other gospels they didn't agree with. Dysfunctional
families always have secrets Some of these lost gospels have recently come to light in the Nag Hammmadi discoveries. Just
as the Spirit may have guided the rise of a single Orthodoxy to prevail so that Christianity could survive, so Spirit is now
surely guiding our further evolution by restoring these lost gospels, especially the incredible Gospel of Thomas.
The third cover-up was of the sacred feminine, both of God and humankind, fictionally embodied in the Da Vinci Code in
the legend of Mary's marriage and child with Jesus. Walk into most churches today and you would be convinced they worship
a male God with all the divine Him's,He's, Father's, King's and Lord's, not to mention the total absence of women among the
priests and pastors.
The fourth cover-up involved distorting the humanity of Jesus. Most of the early church was convinced from the beginning
that Jesus was divine, but debated how that was true. I believe it was progress that Christology evolved over a few centuries
to a belief that Jesus was both human and divine. Unfortunately this orthodoxy prevented any further evolution by making sure
that Jesus was the only human being who could claim divinity. The earlier understanding of the first-century Thomascines was
that Jesus was human and divine like all of us and taught us to rediscover our own divinity by going within. That was covered-up.
Today's continued Christian cover-up has slowed down the spiritual and psychological growth of humankind by pretending
that: (1) there was no evolution from diversity in early Christianity or continuing development, (2) that God is male, and
(3) that no human will actually ever be like Jesus because only Jesus was divine. Therefore any discovery of our own inner
Christ-like divinity must be rejected. However, it was our founder who said, "I have many more things to tell you but
you can't bear them now" John 16:12. Do you think he might have meant some things that were actually going to made a
difference in the further evolution of the Jesus path? As that famous theologian Gracie Allen once said, "Never put a
period where God puts a comma."
Paul R. Smith 2006
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