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The Experts *
The Da Vinci Delusion features 16 historians, scholars, and
authors who test Da Vinci Code claims against Scripture and
history.
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Dr. D. James Kennedy,
Senior Pastor, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
It seems that The Da Vinci Code besmirches every
historical figure it deals with-including Leonardo Da Vinci,
Mary Magdalene, and Constantine, but above all and most
importantly, Jesus Christ. The claim of The Da Vinci Code
that Jesus neither claimed to be divine nor was believed to be
divine by the earliest Christians is totally wrong. |
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Janet
Parshall, Radio Talk Show Host
I find it absolutely amazing that forty million copies of
The Da Vinci Code have been sold worldwide. Its mythology.
Its fabrication. My question is: Why would people want to go to
the fabricated version of who Jesus Christ is and not run with
the same enthusiasm toward the revealed truth of Scripture that
tells us who the real Jesus Christ is?. |
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Dr.
William Donohue, Catholic League
We have the records of the Council of Nicaea. Constantine
called it, yes, not to question the divinity of Christ, but to
question whether or not God created His first being as Jesus,
whether He was begotten or made. Nobody went to the Council of
Nicaea in 325 wondering whether or not Jesus was divine. |
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Richard Abanes, Author of The Truth Behind The Da Vinci
Code
Well, the popularity of The Da Vinci Code is
incredible....They're trying to get some of the other
manuscripts and documents that are mentioned in the book. And,
unfortunately, many people are accepting what's actually being
said in the fiction book as fact. They're taking it as real
history. And the popularity is unbelievable. |
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Bill
Federer, Author
Well, my daughter's 18 years old, and a bunch of girls at her
school read The Da Vinci Code. And she had her faith
shaken. And she came home and she started asking questions,
"Well, how do we know the Bible's true? And how do we know Jesus
didn't have a wife?" And I walked her through step by step
explaining to her where these lies came from. |
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Kerby
Anderson, Radio Talk Show Host
It's a fast read, it's fiction, people like fiction, and any
book right now dealing with spirituality that isn't rooted in
Biblical ideas tends to make the New York Times Bestseller
List. |
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Dr.
Erwin Lutzer, Author of The Da Vinci Deception
So, many people who read The Da Vinci Code come away
with the idea that the Church can no longer be trusted,
Christianity is based on lies. I think, for example, of a
waitress who said to me, "After reading The Da Vinci Code,
I will never be able to go to church again, because I know that
the Church is based on lies." |
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Dr.
Paul Maier, Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan
University
The danger in The Da Vinci Code is that people, who
have a very shallow knowledge of history and maybe a shallow
understanding of Christianity, will see it, and then, of course,
in a flurry of conspiratorial theory ideas say, "Oh, well,
that's the real story isn't it and why has the Church been
holding out on us." And these people who might have given
Christianity a fair hearing, now are turning it off. |
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Lee
Strobel, Author/Journalist
I think anything, whether it's a motion picture or a book,
that points people away from Jesus Christ, having been the one
and only Son of God, the only way to get to heaven, the only way
to be certain of our salvation, anything that takes us away from
that contributes to individuals who may someday find themselves
eternally separated from God. This is serious stuff. We're
playing with people's eternities here. |
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Dr. Jim
Garlow, Co-author of Cracking The Da Vinci Code
He starts the opening page with a statement of, "The
following things are fact." And then he integrates just enough
historical fact with the fiction. I call the writing faction. In
other words it is so confusing. And when people are asked, could
you sort out the fiction from the facts, historical facts? They
say "No," as a matter of fact they cannot. |
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Sandra Miesel, Co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax
The DaVinci Code has taken most of its information from two
unworthy sources, Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Templar
Revelation, which are not written by reputable historians.
Nothing in there would be backed by reputable historians. |
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Dr.
Peter Jones, Co-author of Cracking The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code says that the early Church waged a
political campaign to foist upon us a false Jesus. Well, the
fact of the matter is that the early Church, as reflected in the
New Testament, was written by men who knew Jesus firsthand, who
themselves were not engaged in any kind of political campaign,
since they suffered greatly from the power of the politics of
Rome. And most of them died on crosses. They died for a faith
that they believed was true. |
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Dr.
Gary Habermas, Author of The Historical Jesus
You've got the four First Century Gospels. They are the only
four First Century Gospels. And you say, "Well, that's because
they squashed these other things." I want evidence. I want
somebody to tell me what the books are, what's the competition,
and what got squashed in this process. I'm saying there's
nothing like that. |
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Amy
Welborn, Author of Decoding Da Vinci
In The Da Vinci Code, the reader gets the impression
that at the end of the First Century, or maybe even through the
Fourth Century, there was a stew of texts, sort of percolating
through Christianity and that all were equally valued by all
Christians and that what happened at the end of the Fourth
Century was that the Emperor Constantine sort of picked four
that suit his political purposes. That has no relationship to
what really happened. |
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Dr. Darrell Bock, Author of Breaking The Da Vinci Code
Now, what are the facts? The facts are that Jesus' divinity
was something that the Church believed very early on. We know it
had to believe it very early on, because someone like the
apostle Paul, who originally was a persecutor of the Church and
became an apostle, came to embrace the divinity of Jesus Christ
within years of the Crucifixion. We know that. That's not a
matter of speculation. We have his writings telling us that. |
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Dr. Warren Gage, Knox Theological Seminary
From the very beginning, the four Gospels that we have, each
of them is testifying consistently to the fact that Christ is
God. He is not exhausted purely in His humanity. He is fully
man. But He is also fully God. And that’s the part that Dan
Brown does not want to accept. |
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