One of obvious goals of “The Da Vinci Code” is to spur pagan goddess worship, something which is already experiencing enormous growth in society in recent years.

“The Grail is symbolic of the lost goddess,” says the mega-blockbuster story’s hero, Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks in the movie. “When Christianity came along, the old pagan religions did not die easily. Legends of chivalric quests for the Holy Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find the lost sacred feminine. Knights who claimed to be ‘searching for the chalice’ were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned non-believers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine.”

The book asserts that Jesus Christ really intended His church to be matriarchic—not male-driven—and wanted it headed by Mary Magdalene, who was unjustly supplanted by Peter and defamed by churchmen.

In another novel passage, Langdon pontificates, “The power of the female and her ability to produce life was once very sacred. But it posed a threat to the rise of the predominately male church and so the sacred feminine was demonized and called unclean. It was man, not God, who created the concept of original sin whereby Eve tasted of the apple and caused the downfall of the human race. Woman, once the sacred giver of life, was now the enemy.”

Of course, any first-year student of the Bible could set him straight on this—Eve didn’t cause “the downfall of the human race.” The Bible clearly lays the blame for original sin on the man, not the woman.

As the Apostle Paul makes clear in Rom 5:12-14, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”

Bottom line, what’s at the rotten core of the “sacred feminine,” nauseatingly glorified by “The Da Vinci Code,” is Satan’s lie program deifying the creature rather than the Creator. It’s not the Bible’s God the Father, it’s the Mother God of heathendom.

“If you’re going to deify the creature, wouldn’t you deify the one who has the capacity to bring forth life, because creating life is the one thing God can do that is unique to Him?”, explains my pastor, Richard Jordan (Shorewood Bible Church, Rolling Meadows, Ill.), in a study I have on tape.

In the Bible, every time you see God presented as a woman, it’s a bad deal. In Jeremiah 44:19, for instance, it says the children of Israel “left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her” and made “her cakes to worship her.”

All of this was an abomination to the Lord and represented the forsaking of God in favor of Baal worship, which, incidentally, will be the religious system of the Antichrist.

“When you hear people say, ‘What we really need is a gender-neutral Bible,’ this has to do with this whole movement to de-genderize the deity, or to neutralize it, with ‘father-God, mother-God,’ which is just a descent back into pagan darkness,” says Jordan. “The Bible very clearly teaches us to call God the Father, the Creator, the Provider. The Depiction of God as Father is the idea that He is Creator God, and what you do when you use the image of the mother—which is one who gives birth rather than one who creates—is you denigrate God Himself to a secondary-type situation. It’s a lessening of who God really is and it’s a demeaning of the person and character of God.”

Under “Frequently Asked Questions” on Brown’s own official website (www.danbrown.com), he is asked, “This novel is very empowering to women? Can you comment?”

Brown’s response: “Two thousand years ago, we lived in a word of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. The novel touches on questions of how and why this shift occurred. . . and on what lessons we might learn from it regarding our future.”

In his book, Brown unleashes his wrath against the Catholic Church for its suppression of goddess worship. Accordingly, he reveals on his website, “Much of the positive response I get from within organized religion comes from nuns (who write to thank me for pointing out that they have sacrificed their entire lives to the Church and are still considered ‘unfit’ to serve behind the altar).”

What’s very telling is the fact Brown enthusiastically employs heretical old Gnostic documents to say there was a sexual relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene—

and purports the Gnostic gospels uniformly teach the “sacred feminine”—but leaves out any mention of the infamous final verse in the “Gospel of Thomas,” in which Peter sneers that “women are not worthy of life,” and Christ responds, “I myself shall lead her in order to make her male. . . For every woman who will make herself male will enter the Kingdom.”

It is revelation from the pseudo “Gospel of Philip,” about how “Jesus often kissed Mary on the lips,” and considered her his “companion,” that is used in the book as supposed evidence of a divine marriage. Character Leigh Teabing even argues that any Hebrew scholar would tell you the Aramaic name for “companion” means “spouse.”

The big problem with this is the “Gospel of Philip” was written in Coptic, not Aramaic. The word “companion” in Coptic is actually the Greek word “koinonia,” which means “fellowship,” as in guys in a ship.

As Jordan explains, “This word was used of all the disciples, and when it says He kissed Mary on the lips, the same passage says he kissed all of His disciples on the lips. This was the custom.”

From what the Bible tells us about Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry, he led a nomadic lifestyle and didn’t have a home.

On the other hand, in Matt. 8:14, we’re informed Peter had a wife (which, by the way, shoots down any case for him as Pope) and that his wife’s mother actually lived in their home with them.

“You see when you’ve got a wife, you wind up with a mother-in-law, and she winds up living with you in your house,” explains Jordan. “In other words, there is baggage that comes along with married life.”

In Mark 6:3, a complete list of the family members of Christ is given and no wife is among them. “Do you think if he had a wife, it might have been good to have listed her?” says Jordan.

From John 19:25, we’re told both Mary Magdalene and Jesus’ mother stood around Him at the Cross, but Jesus, in addressing disciple John, only makes mention of his mother’s care following His death.

“If your wife is standing there, and He says, “John, take care of my mom,’ what would you expect him to do for his wife?” reasons Jordan. “Especially if they’ve got a kid. Maybe she was pregnant and didn’t know it—all the more to take care of them.”

For the people who wonder, “Would it have been any big deal if Jesus Christ did have a wife?,” Jordan points to the Apostle Paul’s wisdom, taken by revelation from the risen Christ, in which he reasons in I Cor. 32-33, “He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
”But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.”

Jordan says of this, “The Lord Jesus Christ had sort of a unique mission. He’s the God-Man and the obvious reason He remains single is so He could be totally devoted to the mission He had.”

As for all the “Da Vinci Code’s” lamenting about the passing off the scene of “sacred femininism” due to the emergence of Christianity, Jordan assures, “Everywhere the Word of God’s ever gone it’s elevated the role of women in culture. The unique thing about the women in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ is He didn’t treat them the way the culture of His day did. He elevated them. He included them in his public ministry. He welcomed them into discussions. He allowed them to engage in public discourse. . .

“Everywhere the Gospel has ever gone it brings women out of the boot of dominion because what does the Word of God say? It makes every soul valuable to God. That’s why Paul tells husbands, ‘Love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.’ (Eph. 5:25-26) That’s how Christ loved the church.”