Forgive me, but a Davinci Code question

[Czhorat]

In honor of Dan Brown's new book. The Davinci code was bad history and even worse fiction, but the idea of an offspring of Jesus could be interesting in the hands of a better writer. If there was some real historic evidence of such a thing, how would it effect your faith, if at all? How do you think it would effect religion throughout the world?

Would churches overall adapt their doctrine to include the new facts, as many have with changes in sciences?

Would it be ignored like the non-canonical gospels?

Create new offshoot religions such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

Something else that I've not considered?

This is not an attack on anyone's faith; I personally consider the idea crazy. Part of me is just curious, though about what it would be like if it were real.....

[Hadassah]

Create splinter sects (<removed by Hadassah>)?

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You might want to remove the rest of your sentence after "create splinter sects". I'm not sure that it is kosher.

[Czhorat]

Thanks Haddassah. No offence was meant, but I can see how it would have offended.

[hillplus]

The LDS church is not an offshoot of anything.

Not sure what that has to do with Davinci code, anyway.

[Koushi Shinigami]

In honor of Dan Brown's new book. The Davinci code was bad history and even worse fiction, but the idea of an offspring of Jesus could be interesting in the hands of a better writer. If there was some real historic evidence of such a thing, how would it effect your faith, if at all?


Meh.

[Poisonshady313]

You'd have Christians asking people if they accept the grandchildren of God.

:shifty:

[CID_0687]

Wouldn't make any difference to me. May cause me to think that what Christ did was even more of a sacrifice...leaving a wife and child behind.

I dunno.

[GMScott]

In honor of Dan Brown's new book. The Davinci code was bad history and even worse fiction, but the idea of an offspring of Jesus could be interesting in the hands of a better writer. If there was some real historic evidence of such a thing, how would it effect your faith, if at all? How do you think it would effect religion throughout the world?
Serious time-wasting conjecture!!

This would be a complete and total contradiction to the plan and purpose for Christ coming into the world. He didn't come to raise a family but to make the sacrifice for man to be right before God, salvation and redemption, pure and simple.

There is NO honor in Dan Brown's book or his DaVinci Code fantasy.

[darknessesedge]

In honor of Dan Brown's new book. The Davinci code was bad history and even worse fiction, but the idea of an offspring of Jesus could be interesting in the hands of a better writer. If there was some real historic evidence of such a thing, how would it effect your faith, if at all? How do you think it would effect religion throughout the world?

Would churches overall adapt their doctrine to include the new facts, as many have with changes in sciences?

Would it be ignored like the non-canonical gospels?

Create new offshoot religions such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

Something else that I've not considered?

This is not an attack on anyone's faith; I personally consider the idea crazy. Part of me is just curious, though about what it would be like if it were real.....

Jesus was never married to a human
Jesus never had kids.

[gpd®]

In honor of Dan Brown's new book. The Davinci code was bad history and even worse fiction, but the idea of an offspring of Jesus could be interesting in the hands of a better writer. If there was some real historic evidence of such a thing, how would it effect your faith, if at all? How do you think it would effect religion throughout the world?

Would churches overall adapt their doctrine to include the new facts, as many have with changes in sciences?

Would it be ignored like the non-canonical gospels?

Create new offshoot religions such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

Something else that I've not considered?

This is not an attack on anyone's faith; I personally consider the idea crazy. Part of me is just curious, though about what it would be like if it were real.....

What if a lot people hated Jesus and wanted to create a lot of confusing other gospels?

[Mobulis]

Jesus was never married to a human
Jesus never had kids.



How do you know?

[James-Jacob-Yaqub]

In honor of Dan Brown's new book. The Davinci code was bad history and even worse fiction, but the idea of an offspring of Jesus could be interesting in the hands of a better writer. If there was some real historic evidence of such a thing, how would it effect your faith, if at all? How do you think it would effect religion throughout the world?

Would churches overall adapt their doctrine to include the new facts, as many have with changes in sciences?

Would it be ignored like the non-canonical gospels?

Create new offshoot religions such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

Something else that I've not considered?

This is not an attack on anyone's faith; I personally consider the idea crazy. Part of me is just curious, though about what it would be like if it were real.....




It would make no difference to me if Jesus had been married but here is my opinion on that matter.

Someone said something about splinter groups or something. If there were an heir to Jesus on earth, I mean a son or daughter, there well could have been a beginning of this new faith rooted or tied to another person thought of as the next in line with title or something like that. With this it wouldn't be long before disputes would result in more and earlier divisions in the fledgling Christian community than we presently know about.

I think that Jesus would have us follow Him regarding His example. And, of course, Jesus would lead us to "the Father", not to Jesus. Jesus had no desire to be considered God but God's Son with a mission so to speak. With a physical hierarchy we may have supplanted God's Word for Jesus's physical lineage. What a mess this would be with some worshiping God strictly and others claiming that servitude be given first to His descendant.

This is the mess that Islam finds itself in with the very early split where some followed the Prophet and some the Prophet's son. The Shia and the Sunni are these two groups. They've been going at it since the Prophet died. Christianity took much longer for the first real split in actually.

Mormons would not call themselves a splinter group but the followers of a new revelation by God through the Angel Moroni to Joseph Smith. A new world kind of thing. Without the appearance of the Angel then perhaps they could be called an offshoot of mainstream Protestantism.

But what do I know....:shifty:

TT

[lwdc]

What if a lot people hated Jesus and wanted to create a lot of confusing other gospels?They have. They did.