From The Jesus Seminar to DaVinci Code

The Jesus Seminar is a group of Bible scholars who have been meeting since 1985. The liberal press especially Peter Jennings, and the secularist movement just love these scholars. Its most prominent leaders are Robert W. Funk, former professor of the New Testament at the University of Montana, John Dominic Crossan, of DePaul University, Chicago, and Marcus Borg of Oregon State University.

These scholars on the New Testament have made it their life purpose to explain away the supernatural from the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the prophetic, the miracles, and the claims to deity of Jesus Christ. The Jesus Seminar are the chief proponents of the Gospel of Thomas, a book written in the second to third century A.D. The four gospels were written in the first century A.D. Jimmy Williams of Probe Ministries writes about the Gospel of Thomas:

"It has been almost universally assumed that the parallels in Thomas to the New Testament Gospels and epistles were copied or paraphrased (not the reverse, as the Jesus Fellows claim) to suit Gnostic purposes, teachings which were opposed to all ideas about a supernatural God in the flesh Who could perform miracles, forgive sin, and rise from the dead."

It is this same gospel of Thomas, among other gnostic writings, that Dan Brown in his book, The DaVinci Code uses to spin his "historical novel" to oppose the deity of Jesus Christ and portray Him in his own humanistic image. Michael Gleghorn exposes the gnostic roots of the DaVinci Code.

We see the bitter fruit of the Jesus Seminar in the DaVinci Code, and a movie coming out next year based on the DaVinci Code will lure even more unsuspecting people into this seductive, secularist, and naturalistic image of Jesus which is totally opposed to the God-Man Jesus of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.