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The Da Vinci Code … Ecclesiastics 1:9-10 “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us.” The
Da Vinci Code is proof of this scripture. Dan Brown’s novel is
saturated with a plethora of heresies, misnomers and misinformation
concerning Jesus Christ, the Bible and Christianity. To make matters
worse, it seems that in a couple of years this will be made into a
movie. So what of it? Why should we care about books that
non-believers write and the movies that Hollywood makes? No one
consults Hollywood for their knowledge of the Bible or do they?
Besides this is a work of fiction. Does it matter? In a word, YES! “It
is just a work of fiction and it should be enjoyed as such.” is
the cry made when dealing with criticism of this book. There are a
few issues here. First, the author acknowledges that this book is
fiction but is based on facts. What needs to be explained is what
the author considered facts. The documents that the author considers
facts are writings that the Church fathers considered spurious and
rejected or writings of heretics. Mr. Brown considers these to be
“FACTS”. A second issue here is that of content. Of those who say that this book is merely entertainment and good reading, I can only say that they are “clueless.”. Entertainment can defined as the way in which we amuse ourselves. The Da Vinci Code provides the following points of “entertainment”:
I
do not find any of the above items on the list a fit item for
entertainment. With the number of movies, books and other things
available today, there is no excuse for a travesty of a book like
this to be written let alone be made into a movie. The sacredness
and holiness of Jesus puts Him off limits in my mind to this type of
“entertainment writing.” While
there is certainly nothing in this book new to Bible Scholars,
sadly, this information is new to probably 99 % of the rest of the
country and that it why this book is so dangerous. Our culture is
Biblically illiterate. Much of what the average non-churched
individual knows and/or believes about the Bible or Christianity
comes from the media. This in itself is a huge problem. The liberal
bias of the media makes it almost certain that what is told is a lie
or a half-truth at best. The
book and the soon to be movie has already and will introduce the
public to issues dealing with the canon of the scriptures, the deity
of Christ, and more from a very stilted one-sided liberal bias. The
Da Vinci Code introduces the Biblically uneducated person to
concepts that will darken their view of Church, Christianity, and
most important, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With the immense
popularity of “The Passion of the Christ”, the media will no
doubt seize this opportunity to style this as a “if you have seen
the Passion you must see this one too.” The
theories and allegations set forth in the Da Vinci Code are at best
ludicrous. They are both non-scholarly and non-Christian. There are
many wonderful sites out there that already deal with this
preponderance if ignorance and we will not attempt to duplicate so
many masterful jobs of dismantling this dismal book and movie to be. We recommend:
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