The Da Vinci Code
The book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has been a huge best seller and has been released as a film.
If, like me, you have friends who had either read the book or bits of it or seen the film, you may have been challenged to comment. Friends & colleagues have the right to expect a more thoughtful comment than 'it isn't in the Bible so it must be wrong'!
The following links may provide some thoughts to base your comments on. If anyone has any additional ones that they find useful (especially Adventist ones) please Email me (see the bottom of the page)..
Pick and chose what information that you find useful. They vary greatly in the depth of information offered. If you wish to print out any articles, since they are on external web sites I suggest that you consider copying and pasting into a Word Document in order to save your paper. This will not easily work with the book however. If you are a little rusty on the background to 'hoe we got our New Testament you may wish to start with "Josh McDowell Answers Questions about the New Testament".
- FREE BOOK, the Da Vinci Decode, ready to download. Produced by the South Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Church division, it is the full 120 page book in pdf format and is an 850Kb download. If the above link will not work try this link.
- Questions & Answers: Includes "Was Mary Magdalene married to Jesus?"
- More Questions & Answers: Includes " Is it true that in the Jewish tradition Solomon's Temple was seen as housing not only God but his powerful equal Shekinah - a female god?
- The Da Vinci Code: Of Magdalene, Gnostics, the Goddess and the Grail.
- A Look at the Da Vinci Code: Three Major Errors plus a Few More by Darrell L Bock.
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Josh McDowell Answers Questions about the New Testament
Apologist and author Josh McDowell, author of The Da Vinci Code: A Quest for Answers, talks about the New Testament documents, how the New Testament Canon was decided, and the reliability of the Christian faith. He compares just how much more evidence there are to the authenticity of the New Testament documents than any other writingws of the time. -
Q&A on the Gospel of Judas with Dr. Clinton Arnold
Professor and author Dr. Clinton E. Arnold answers questions about the newly released Gospel of Judas, including questions such as: Does it contain actual historical information about Jesus or Judas? When is it dated and what does it contain? Will it redefine Christianity? Arnold concludes it is not historical, nor will it significantly affect Christian belief. -
Crash Goes The Da Vinci Code
Dr. Ron Rhodes
Master apologist and recognized author Dr. Ron Rhodes painstakingly deconstructs the major errors of The Da Vinci Code novel in a question and answer format. The inclusion of direct quotations and page numbers from the hardback edition provide a real aid for those seeking proof and answers. Very comprehensive. -
Was Jesus Married?
Darrell L. Bock, Ph.D.
Seminary professor and writer Darrell L. Bock, Ph.D writes that "all the available evidence points to the answer 'no'." -
Dismantling The Da Vinci Code
Sandra Miesel
Miesel, co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax, dismantles the shoddy history and willfully irresponsible writing of Dan Brown. She delves into the sources Brown cited, scrutinizing his pick-and-choose methodology. She critiques his tortured Christology, built upon Gnostic texts and the wild claim of a Constantinian edict that first divinized Christ. She briefly deals with Brown's erroneous treatment of Mary Magdalene and misuse of Gnostic extra-canonical gospels, as well as his misrepresentation of The Knights Templar and Leonardo Da Vinci. -
Non-Canonical Literature
Wesley Center Online (Wesley Center for Applied Theology, Northwest Nazarene University)
"Documents to Aid Students and Scholars in Biblical Interpretation." Links to both Old Testament and New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and other non-canonical early Christian literature. -
Women in the Life and Teachings of Jesus
James A. Borland
Borland offers a brief study of the place of women in Christ's life and ministry, a chapter from the complementarian book, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. - Decoding The Da Vinci Code Adventist Review columnist Gary Swanson analyzes the claims behind Dan Brown's best-selling novel.
- The Truth About the Gospel of Judas Does this book offer new light on the Bible?
- The Da Vinci Code British writer David Marshall breaks down the code.
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