Thursday, June 22, 2006

i'm still damned hungry

ey? where am i? oh! in my blog.

wow. cobwebs all over.

anyways, i shall give you 5 reasons why i'm not blogging until 'O' levels:

1. must study

2. lazy

3. very busy

4. have i mentioned lazy?

5. i'm hungry (erm...)





yeh so... i was actually planning to do something insane today.
have my own critics about DVC book.
here it goes:

DVC is actually the best book i've ever read. after comes Angels and Demons, also by the same phenomenal author, Dan Brown. but let'se see. it has actually challenged the authencity of the Bible! here i am going to say something about that.

facts with fictions

DVC is a work of fiction. if you look at any book stores, it's in the "fiction" catergory. some of the elements are legends and myths. some are just conclusions without any base fact. so is the Holy Bible fact or fiction? this is a question equivalent to "how big is the universe?" we cant answer it as it goes way back in time. however, the manuscripts of the Old testaments and the New Testaments are one of the most reliable sources today according to historians and scholars. the manuscripts have only 150 years gap from the original copy (cesar's galic wars copy have 1000 years gap from the original). also, it has the most pristine copies stored (over 11,000 copies). these copies are all hand written. more copies means we can cross-examine all these manuscripts and see if they collaborate even though different people copied them.



constantine

DVC stated that there actually other gospels that describe Jesus in a completely differnet way from the bible. that He was married and he was actually not a god. however, these gospels are called gnostic (based on knowledge) gospels. these gospels are not written by any of the apostles. the authors didn't even see or talked to Jesus. some books were written hundreds of years after the death of Christ. the authors only went into the name of the apostles so that their book will be deemed credible. the gospels chosen for the Bible are those which are credible. the author must be an apostle of Christ. but hey! does that mean the Bible is biased? no writtings from outside point of view. actually there is. one was apostle paul's gospels

debate at the council of nicaea 325 ad

in the book, dan brown stated that the debate was about whether Jesus was a god or just a man. this was "fact" was actually just a theory. the debate was more on the topic of the Holy Trinity. the Holy Trinity say's that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are one God. the debate was about whether Jesus' status was lesser that God the Father, not if Jesus was a man or god.



art

"a picture says a thousand words" - sounds familiar right? the speculations about the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and other paintings or works of art depicted in the DVC are just a few words among the thousand. it's just one point of view that can be incorrect. if your an artist or an art critic, you should understand this. you can never know what the painter is trying to say, but only what the painting is saying to you.

bestseller

just for the record, DVC sold 36 million copies. the Holy Bible sold 2.5 billion copies and counting. woohoo!

there ya go. i'm a christian so i'm just trying to protect what i believe is the truth. have your own damned opinion can?

1 comment:

Samantha Kaylee Whang said...

HELLOOS:)) nice blog. nice drawings too..hahaz