The Bible and DVC
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Now that’s one formidable blog title. Unless you didn’t figure out DVC stands for Da Vinci Code. But no, I won’t get started on the international conspiracy thing. It’s just comforting to know that writer Jessica Zaffra and I have a lot in common. Maybe we survive an ancient Egyptian royal bloodline that used to revere cats as representative of the gods.
On her yesterday’s entry, J-Za wrote about how she liked reading the Bible. How it paved the way for her writing and her reading of literary legends like Tolkien and mythology
I did love reading the Bible too. My parents bought me volumes of illustrated Bible stories from Genesis to the New Testament. I mostly enjoyed the Old Testament parts. I remember being amazed at the tales of grandeur, the flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the wrath of God. I did believe the lessons and values from the stories. Until now, whenever some old hag tells me something like ‘raising your leg on your chair while eating is wrong’, I just counter them with “it’s not in the Bible is it?” Of course I know my etiquette but ethics and sin are two different things. And where in the Bible does it say that you can’t sweep your floor when it’s night time??
I am, however, NOT a religious person but I AM a spiritual one. Those are also two entirely different things. Religion, in Jeungian Thought, is a manifestation of one of man’s Collective Unconscious (particularly the need to worship a supreme being or the need for a repository of meaning). I do not object to any religion but I do believe in cancellation by truth. It’s simple logic. If A says B is false and B says A is false then they are both fooling each other. If the Koran says Jesus survived the crucifixion and the Bible says He died and if both literatures were absolute universal truth, then the cosmos probably would’ve imploded long before we were born.
In my case, the Bible taught me that reading is a lot of fun. That eventually led me to reading anything from Sweet Valley High to books that didn’t make the cut when Emperor Constantine and his party developed the Bible: the Dead Sea Scrolls which contained the Gospels of Philip and Thomas, The Pistis Sophia and the Gospels of Mary Magdalene. It inspired me to read texts from the Koran, Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy – all of which, I learned Zafra also read. Suffice to say, we became what laymen would label as heretics.
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Thanks to E!, I got to see scenes from The Da Vinci Code. The first full trailer is also up for viewing. They even have high definition trailers!
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Now that’s one formidable blog title. Unless you didn’t figure out DVC stands for Da Vinci Code. But no, I won’t get started on the international conspiracy thing. It’s just comforting to know that writer Jessica Zaffra and I have a lot in common. Maybe we survive an ancient Egyptian royal bloodline that used to revere cats as representative of the gods.
On her yesterday’s entry, J-Za wrote about how she liked reading the Bible. How it paved the way for her writing and her reading of literary legends like Tolkien and mythology
I did love reading the Bible too. My parents bought me volumes of illustrated Bible stories from Genesis to the New Testament. I mostly enjoyed the Old Testament parts. I remember being amazed at the tales of grandeur, the flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the wrath of God. I did believe the lessons and values from the stories. Until now, whenever some old hag tells me something like ‘raising your leg on your chair while eating is wrong’, I just counter them with “it’s not in the Bible is it?” Of course I know my etiquette but ethics and sin are two different things. And where in the Bible does it say that you can’t sweep your floor when it’s night time??
I am, however, NOT a religious person but I AM a spiritual one. Those are also two entirely different things. Religion, in Jeungian Thought, is a manifestation of one of man’s Collective Unconscious (particularly the need to worship a supreme being or the need for a repository of meaning). I do not object to any religion but I do believe in cancellation by truth. It’s simple logic. If A says B is false and B says A is false then they are both fooling each other. If the Koran says Jesus survived the crucifixion and the Bible says He died and if both literatures were absolute universal truth, then the cosmos probably would’ve imploded long before we were born.
In my case, the Bible taught me that reading is a lot of fun. That eventually led me to reading anything from Sweet Valley High to books that didn’t make the cut when Emperor Constantine and his party developed the Bible: the Dead Sea Scrolls which contained the Gospels of Philip and Thomas, The Pistis Sophia and the Gospels of Mary Magdalene. It inspired me to read texts from the Koran, Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy – all of which, I learned Zafra also read. Suffice to say, we became what laymen would label as heretics.
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Thanks to E!, I got to see scenes from The Da Vinci Code. The first full trailer is also up for viewing. They even have high definition trailers!
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