Trying to get answers to some questions ushered me to the thinking of a certain bishop of our province. I finally found it right to seek help from him as authority to the topic because what I had was simply an opinion that does not deserve attention. Perhaps like me the author of Da Vinci Code was simply voicing his opinion and like me he does not deserve attention.
Why did the people of Jerusalem welcomed Christ with leaves waved in the air and sang Hossanah's? The bishop explains; the people did not look at Christ as king and savior or as God. At that time, the whole of Israel was in political turmoil and the people looked at Christ as a politician who can lead them towards political redemption.
Why, "happy are those who are poor in the spirit"..? I was still an acolyte when this question began to hammer my mind. But the bishop explains; if you are poor you crave for something that will displace the things that makes you poor. For instance. You are poor because you don't have money. With all your strength and influence you will do everything to obtain money. So the bishop continues, you must be poor in the spirit so that by all means - you do everything to be rich in the spirit.
Why Jesus The Christ and not simply Jesus Christ? Christ is not a surname as I thought of it before. The bishop said, Christ means savior therefore "Jesus the Christ" that means Jesus the savior.
Not exactly the correct wording, the bible says, to enter heaven you must be a child. If such is the case then there are no adult people in heaven now because to go there one must be a child. The bishop explains; it should not be taken literally. What characteristic of a child that everyone must bear to enter heaven? It refers to the inability of the child to do wickedness that will lead him to perdition. In other words it is about the innocence of the child.
Perhaps it was the literal level of what the bible says that some people considered.
The bishop said some confusion, which the attackers of the church followed, it started simply from the literal level of some words that have nothing to do with the doctrine and practices in the church. The literal confusion on the same hand originated from the early translation of the bible.
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