Fiction is not Fact
We live in a culture that lusts after whatever is new, exciting, upgraded, and fashionable. Postmodernism has leveled the playing field between opinion, preference, fact, and truth. Reality is what suits your taste, and to claim contrary is intolerant and arrogant. Suddenly, scripture and scholarship have been tossed aside, and absolute truth has been thrown out the window.
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has ridden that wave to the shore of international esteem and a multi-million dollar following. This conspiracy thriller has cleverly cloaked historical inaccuracies, heretical claims, and faith challenging allegations that have no archaeological, textual, or historical proof. Its time we looked at what the evidence truly shows and place fiction back in the imagination.
The truth is this novel is causing more than just a stir, it is purporting fiction as fact and it is time that we cut through the claims and look at what history actually says.
The following is a compilation of FACTS that reveal the true reality behind the biggest lies that The Da Vinci Code spews, and the subject are: The Divinity of Christ, Mary Magdalene, The Four Gospels, and the Reliability of the New Testament.
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To paraphrase Darrell Bock, Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary,
"The extent to which average Christians know about Christian history is this: There is Jesus, then the apostles, and then come the scriptures. Then watch as we race down the historical timeline: wave to Augustine, wave to Calvin and Luther, and then you’re at Billy Graham.
Dan Brown has written a compelling book in which he claims to have done extensive research in the 1st – 3rd centuries and people have taken what he has claimed to the bank."
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