We Serve a Risen Savior

      A person can’t turn sideways these days without running into something about The Da Vinci Code. It is on the television, the radio, in the newspapers and the magazines. We can’t even get away from it by meeting with the church because it is being talked about there.

      In the book, Jesus is presented as a mere man who was legendarily deified hundreds of years after his life and death. On the other hand, Mary Magdalene is presented as the goddess.

      “The Priory of Sion, to this day, still worships Mary Magdalene as the Goddess, the Holy Grail, the Rose, and the Divine Mother” (The Da Vinci Code, p. 255).

      Don’t believe every thing you see in the Indiana Jones movies. We learn in this book that the quest for the “Holy Grail” (a non-biblical relic, by the way) is not about the cup from which Jesus drank. Oh no. “The quest for the Holy Grail is literally the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one, the lost sacred feminine” (The Da Vinci Code, pp 257, 454).

      The book closes with Robert Langdon believing he has figured out where the “Holy Grail” is hidden. He runs to its location and then:

      “With a sudden upwelling of reverence, Robert Langdon fell to his knees.

      “For a moment, he thought he heard a woman’s voice…the wisdom of the ages…whispering up from the chasms of the earth” (The Da Vinci Code, p 454).

      What an amazing quest. After reading this I thought, “You know, I would kind of like to do that. I think I will seek out the tomb of my God, Jesus. I will go on a quest to kneel at the bones of my Savior, Jesus. I will go on a journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one, the executed sacred Jesus.”

      Oh wait. I can’t. My Savior was actually more than a man. He died on a cross but rose again three days later. Peter said in Acts 2:32, “This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses.”

      That is the amazing thing about Christianity that sets it apart from all other religions. We serve a God who sent His Divine Son into the world to live as one of us and to die as a sacrifice for us. Jesus died to be the sacrifice to appease God’s anger for our sins. Then He was resurrected on the third day.

      If you want to go on a quest to worship at the decayed remains of someone who lived, died and just stayed dead, be our guest. We, however, serve a risen Savior.

      Would you care to join us?

Edwin L. Crozier