All 18 Uses of
gospel
in
The Da Vinci Code
- More than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament, and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John among them.†
Chpt 55-56
- Who chose which gospels to include?†
Chpt 55-56 *
- Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ's human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.†
Chpt 55-56
- Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ's human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.†
Chpt 55-56
- The earlier gospels were outlawed, gathered up, and burned.†
Chpt 55-56
- Anyone who chose the forbidden gospels over Constantine's version was deemed a heretic.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Fortunately for historians," Teabing said, "some of the gospels that Constantine attempted to eradicate managed to survive.†
Chpt 55-56
- Therefore, any gospels that described earthly aspects of Jesus' life had to be omitted from the Bible.†
Chpt 57-58
- Unfortunately for the early editors, one particularly troubling earthly theme kept recurring in the gospels.†
Chpt 57-58
- If Jesus were not married, at least one of the Bible's gospels would have mentioned it and offered some explanation for His unnatural state of bachelorhood.†
Chpt 57-58
- The cover read: The Gnostic Gospels.†
Chpt 57-58
- Troublingly, they do not match up with the gospels in the Bible.†
Chpt 57-58
- The Gospel of Philip is always a good place to start.†
Chpt 57-58
- This is from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.†
Chpt 57-58
- Sophie had not known a gospel existed in Magdalene's words.†
Chpt 57-58
- At this point in the gospels, Jesus suspects He will soon be captured and crucified.†
Chpt 57-58
- According to these unaltered gospels, it was not Peter to whom Christ gave directions with which to establish the Christian Church.†
Chpt 57-58
- Sophie tilted her head and scanned the list of titles: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail THE GODDESS IN THE GOSPELS Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine "Here is perhaps the best-known tome," Teabing said, pulling a tattered hardcover from the stack and handing it to her.†
Chpt 59-60
Definition:
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(gospel as in: gospel of the Bible) the religious teachings of Jesus
or:
one of the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that Christian's believe tell the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings