Full commitment
Via the Crunchy Con blog is this wonderful refutation of those who would claim the DaVinci Code has revealed some ancient truth that overturns the Gospel of Christ.
"From the very beginnings of the Church the faithful were tortured and put to death because they believed the Gospel was true and because they refused to deny this truth, and the same witness has been given throughout the history of the Church up to and including the present day. Gnosticism, by contrast, never produced martyrs, and was somewhat embarrassed by its collaborationist tendency already in the time of Valerian. Today's Gnostics are no different. When someone assures you he thinks the The Da Vinci Code tells the real story of Jesus, ask him: 'Would you go to your death for the belief that Dan Brown has it right?' If he says no, the conclusion is obvious: 'Ah, I see. You weren't talking about truth. You meant to say that life would easier for you if the Catholic Church were wrong.'"
Reminds me of the story of a pig and chicken discussing what faith in action really meant. They passed by a restaurant offering a special on bacon eggs. "Look", said the pig, "this is what I'm talking about. Your contribution to that breakfast is a sacrifice. To me, it means total commitment!"
"From the very beginnings of the Church the faithful were tortured and put to death because they believed the Gospel was true and because they refused to deny this truth, and the same witness has been given throughout the history of the Church up to and including the present day. Gnosticism, by contrast, never produced martyrs, and was somewhat embarrassed by its collaborationist tendency already in the time of Valerian. Today's Gnostics are no different. When someone assures you he thinks the The Da Vinci Code tells the real story of Jesus, ask him: 'Would you go to your death for the belief that Dan Brown has it right?' If he says no, the conclusion is obvious: 'Ah, I see. You weren't talking about truth. You meant to say that life would easier for you if the Catholic Church were wrong.'"
Reminds me of the story of a pig and chicken discussing what faith in action really meant. They passed by a restaurant offering a special on bacon eggs. "Look", said the pig, "this is what I'm talking about. Your contribution to that breakfast is a sacrifice. To me, it means total commitment!"
posted by Kevin Creighton | 5/13/2006 12:19:00 PM
1 Comments:
Gnostics have plenty of martyrs. Christians don't consider them to be martyrs, because it was the Church that ordered their murder.
Even before the Church, gnostics were attacked by a variety of vicious forces.
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