Mental Gymnastics

Re-writing the Gospels II

Post-modernism i suppose laid grounds to Deconstruction and Feminism. I still have all of these lines of thought pretty much mixed up in my head since college. My Literary Theories professor, was the first to tell me how the bible is a perfect example of man's chauvinism (from a feminist's point-of-view). Until then, I never thought that there was anything wrong with the good book.

Langdon's theories on female symbology throughout the Da Vincci Code is quite intriguing. What I was made to realize after reading it, was that the female held the most powerful position throughout the history of Christianity.., or any other religion if you'd consider the other forms of worship that Christianity embraced and eventually, manipulated for the Church's well-being. And even though this book is pure fiction, laying out and at the same time twisting some of the facts, especially on Leonardo Da Vincci's works, is a definite good read.

Scholars often find it difficult to share the heaps of information that they find to the masses. But Dan Brown sure did a good job in perking up a common man's interest to the world of the scholarly.

Finally, here's another book that was once in the #1 list in the non-fiction section of the bookstore, The Bible Code. Here, the bible is treated in its original text, which is in Hebrew. Michael Drosnin tells how the Hebrew bible in itself is a complex code which reveals everything that was, would've, is and may happen throughout existence. He even showed how the code works. And that a computer-generated decoder (talk about programming!!) made it easier to access the information.

The portions of the text are shown on the left page of the book and, just like in crossword puzzles, selected words or phrases are encircled. The interpretation of those words is shown on the right side of the book. The thing is, the bible is supposed to contain the past, present and the future. So everything about life has already been written. (Making the bible synonymous to Destiny's great book, and God as the author of life indeed.)

So where does free will come in? Well, the text also reveals the multi-dimensional past, present and future so it'll be tough to find what you are looking for. I remember reading this during the Nostradamus craze. And it has left me thinking that even if I am be able to crack the code, it's still subject to my own interpretation. Hence, there became a lot of skeptics on this book. Anyway, it's still up to you to decide where the code will lead you.

posted by kquill @ 2:47 PM