Cracking the Da Vinci Code presented by Jim Heugel at Calvary Chapel on February 23, 2005.

Was Jesus actually married to Mary Magdalene? And did they have children? In the first centuries did Christians worship Jesus and Mary as representations of the divine masculine and divine feminine? Was belief in the divinity of Christ actually invented by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century? Did an underground society keep these secrets alive during the Middle Ages, and did Leonardo Da Vinci put clues to all this in his paintings?

These claims have been read by thousands of Americans in The Da Vinci Code (over 93 weeks on the NYT best-sellers list). This seminar will explain the historical distortions behind these ideas and help us understand how to talk about them with our friends.

Jim Heugel has a Ph.D. in history and is on the faculty of Northwest College teaching Church History and European History.

Cracking the Da Vinci Code [MP3]

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