The Devil is a liar and the father of lies, and the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt. Put the two together and you get a very toxic mix indeed.
We must expect, therefore, that the enemies of God will try every strategy possible to discredit the Bible. The latest best-selling book in this mould (claimed on the author’s website to be one of the most widely read books of all time) is The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. The film rights have already been sold to Sony Pictures and a top director has been engaged to produce the film in 2005.
To the casual reader, it is nothing more than good fiction—a murder mystery that pits the keepers of the Holy Grail against Opus Dei—the ‘keepers’ of the Catholic church. So why the outcry? Well, one reason is that the first page makes a bold statement that the novel is based on historical fact—‘all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate’. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The whole work is fiction, and shot full of historical error.
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