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As many have read in the book and many
are about to see in the movie, there is another
controversy regarding the Bible and its many claims
about Jesus.
I am not about to defend or attack either side of
this controversy. My aim is to put the claims of The
Da Vinci Code proponents under the purely logical
analysis of the philosophical approach that is called
Aristotelian logic. You may not be aware of it but you
are using this approach to your decision making every
day.
According to this system of thought, if our
conclusions are going to be sound we must follow strict
rules reaching these conclusions after looking at the
data involving a certain issue. In its simplest form
here is what Aristotelian logic is all about. You start
with one or two obvious and universally accepted
premises. These are called axioms.
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Then you use the three simple rules of
logic.
First is: A=A, an object or a statement is
equal to itself.
Second: If A=B then B=A.
Third: If A=B and B=C then A=C.
When you start with an axiom or two and you
apply these three rules consistently and
correctly then your conclusions will be sound.
So in order to analyze any argument you need
to first find out what the underlying
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Then you proceed to apply the three rules and
determine if they have been correctly applied in
arriving at the conclusions of the one or the other side
of the controversy.
Let's look at an example. Let's start with the two
axioms that people not too long ago accepted
unquestionably and universally. One is "The Earth Is
Flat", the second is "All Material Things Come To An
End" third "Flat things have edges". Suppose you want to
decide whether to travel all your life in the same
direction.
What would be the soundest decision according to
Aristotelian Logic? Applying the three rules of logic we
will have to say. The earth is a material thing
therefore the earth has an end. Flat things have edges
therefore the earth has edges. So based on your data
that the earth is flat and the earth is a material thing
your best decision would be to forget about traveling in
the same direction for too long you might fall of the
edge and who knows where you are going to end up.
Notice that the erroneous conclusion is not due to
the thought process, it is a result of a faulty axiom.
Now let us try to apply this logic to The Da Vinci
Code controversy. What are the underlying axioms in
this whole issue? Historical data about the life of
Jesus are at best inconclusive so even the biggest
skeptic will have to agree that in this whole argument
the axiom is "The Bible Is Authoritative and Reliable".
Thinking in Aristotelian logic terms this is the big
problem.
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The vast majority of the people
who care about the Bible, believe that the Bible
consists of the 39 books of the Old Testament
and the 27 books of the New Testament.
Remember that in order for the
statement "The Bible Is Reliable" to be an axiom
there must be universal agreement.
How can we consider it then an
axiom if people do not even agree what the Bible
is?
It appears to me that the
proponents of The Da Vinci Code argument
are attempting to appropriate the standing of
the Bible as an authoritative source by arguing
that the gospel of Thomas and other such
writings belong to and are a part of "The
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The irony of this approach is that this attempt
to include more books in the Bible in order to
appropriate its authority is the very same thing
that strips the authority of the Bible because
there is no longer universal agreement on what
the Bible is so how can there be universal
validity to the axiom "The Bible Is An
Authoritative Source Of Information"?
Of course the objection will be raised, the
flat earth axiom was universally accepted and it
was wrong! The problem here is that Galileo had
compelling observational data to overturn a
universal misconception. What do The Da Vinci
Code proponents have that is compelling
enough to change the number of the books of the
Bible.
Lets look at the book of Thomas, which they
claim belongs in the Bible and supports their
claims. Here is a quote from it " He saw a
Samaritan carrying a lamb and going to Judea. He
said to his disciples, "that person ... around
the lamb." They said to him, "So that he may
kill it and eat it." He said to them, "He will
not eat it while it is alive, but only after he
has killed it and it has become a carcass." They
said, "Otherwise he can't do it."
He said to them, "So also with you, seek for
yourselves a place for rest, or you might become
a carcass and be eaten." Is this the source of
the compelling evidence? If I had to support any
of my arguments on a book with such childish
writing I would be ashamed to show my face in
public! In conclusion, The Da Vinci Code
may be a nice novel but it is just noise when it
comes to establishing its claims as true
history.
About the Author
John Douramacos is a marketer. http://www.makebucksonline.com
with interest in forex trading
http://www.4xtradingtrends.com and self
improvement. http://www.wholenessmanifest.com
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