Da Vinci Code

**dogzr#1** · 05-21-2006, 03:12 PM

I really don't think what the big thing is about. It is FICTION. I really want to see it. My parents read the book and really liked it. I might be part of the minority here, but it is my opinion. We are entitled to our opinion, just like the guy who wrote the book. (can't remember his name

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**lvpets2002** · 05-21-2006, 04:58 PM

Ok I just got back from the movies && I went in with an open mind & knowing it is a Drama = I do understand Leornordo Da Vinci & his painting of the Mona Lisa & his painting of the Lord's Supper better in which he was the one that conspired the Da Vinci Code of the 1500//1600 era.. Now if your Faith & Beliefs are strong then this movie will have no affect.. It was a good drama & will state that 2 1/2 hours could have been done in 1 1/2 hour.. This is Only Just My Understandings..
Ok here is the kicker that = Over The Hedge was showing right behind Da Vinci Code so I just had to go see it too &

WOW the whole movie was hullarious funny funny.. For sure go see Over The Hedge = You will laugh thru the whole movie

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**wolf_Q** · 05-21-2006, 05:30 PM

I just came back from seeing the movie. I read the book and enjoyed it. The movie was okay...I was disappointed. I thought the book was much better. They changed quite a few things which I know some has to be done because of time, but the changes just irritated me. Just my opinion.

**Tralee** · 05-21-2006, 07:48 PM

I saw it today and loved it!! I thought Ron Howard did a great job of portraying the book. Some of the history parts (not the flash backs) i found a little boring. I would reconmend going to see it with an open mind. I though the man who played Silas did a superb job. I was not dissapointed at all. Obviously some things had to be changed (one cryptex vs two) for time restraints. It was a tough movie to make and IMO Ron Howard did the best job he could do.

**Lady's Human** · 05-21-2006, 07:56 PM

Not to turn this into a religious discussion, but the book of Revelations was not written by John the Apostle. It was written by John the Divine, approximately 300 years after the crucifixion. Different John.

**Pam** · 05-21-2006, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Not to turn this into a religious discussion, but the book of Revelations was not written by John the Apostle. It was written by John the Divine, approximately 300 years after the crucifixion. Different John.

Normally I am in agreement with you on most things Lady's Human but I believe you are incorrect here. This is from a Bible commentary and is what I have been taught since childhood.

The apostle and evangelist, John, seems to have been the youngest of the twelve. He was especially favoured with our Lord's regard and confidence, so as to be spoken of as the disciple whom Jesus loved. He was very sincerely attached to his Master. He exercised his ministry at Jerusalem with much success, and outlived the destruction of that city, agreeably to Christ's prediction, ch. 21:22. History relates that after the death of Christ's mother, John resided chiefly at Ephesus. Towards the close of Domitian's reign he was banished to the isle of Patmos, where he wrote his Revelation.

I believe the Book of Revelation was finished in 70 A.D.

**Lady's Human** · 05-21-2006, 09:57 PM

Mea Culpa. There are three Johns that have been given credit as the author of Revelation, written about 95 AD. No one is REALLY sure who wrote it, but if it was John the Apostle, and 95 AD is accurate, John is one long lived person. Assuming dating in the era is correct, he would be in his '90s when it was written.

The reason the authorship is debated is that the earliest copy known to exist is in Greek, and John the Apostle wrote in Aramaic.