One netfriend wrote:

The Da Vinci Code book and movie are a direct attack on Our Lord Jesus The Christ. These enemies of the Christian faith use Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper as proof that Jesus was not God, that he married Mary Magdalene, and had a child with her.

Another:

How would Jesus having a wife and a child prove that he wasn’t God? Surely God would be capable of doing whatever he wants and STILL be God, wouldn’t he?

And a third:

No, it wouldn’t make any difference to whether Jesus is God or not.

But if Jesus WAS God, and some people assert a claim to biological descent from him, then it makes them, at least in their own eyes, a cut above other people.

I was at a seminar on the church and bioethics the other day, and someone mentioned the idea of cloning a saint. I can’t think that any educated Christian would take such a thing seriously, but it’s the kind of think that could capture the imagination of unbelieving journalists.

A few years ago there was a film called “The boys from Brazil”, about cloning Afolf Hitler — just the opposite of cloning a saint.

People whose minds have been shaped by seeing films like “Jurassic Park” might take such things very seriously.

The Christian belief is that God has only one begotten son — the rest of us are adopted.

But if some can claim a higher status than the rest of us, then they’ll love the idea that Jesus had biological descendants. If he wasn’t God, it wouldn’t be half so much fun.