| When dealing with controversial issues, there are | | | | * Or in lamest term, did the church lie? |
| always two sides to the story, as with Dan | | | | Bock has set out to determine what's fact and |
| Brown novel the Da Vinci Code. Through my | | | | what's fiction. He reviews with the reader ancient |
| research, the best person to contradict Dan | | | | texts that unlock the truths that Brown tries to |
| Brown accusations is a novelist, Darrell L. Bock. In | | | | portray. |
| his novel, BREAKING THE DA VINCI CODE, he | | | | Personally, as a Christian believer, my faith was |
| challenges Dan Brown claims to "historical facts". | | | | never shaken by this novel or movie. Is it a great |
| Bock claims that he has disprove the outrageous | | | | work of fiction, yes, one of the best I read in a |
| antichristian falsehoods in The Da Vinci Code. | | | | long time. When a book can make you visually |
| Bock feels that Brown is misleading millions of | | | | see something and make you think afterward, for |
| Americans and tends to answer questions that | | | | more than an hour and want to discuss it with |
| are sitting in the mind of confused readers. Here | | | | someone else, that's a great book to me. Once |
| are some of the questions he addresses: | | | | again, I must say, this is a work of fiction, nothing |
| * Was Jesus really married to Mary Magdalene, | | | | more. These are my personal thoughts; I have |
| and did he have children by her? Has their | | | | researched throughout the web to find what |
| bloodline really been traced by "scores of | | | | other readers thought. Here are some comments |
| historians"? | | | | and concerns of other readers. |
| * Would being single really make Jesus | | | | "This is a sad attempt to disprove supposed |
| "un-Jewish"? | | | | claims of truth in The da Vinci Code. The |
| * Did the Catholic Church really suppress the fact | | | | statement on the first page of the book reads |
| that Christ's "family" fled to France as a way to | | | | states in no way shape or form all the |
| protect his claims to divinity? | | | | information in the book is true; it simply outlines |
| * Did Leonardo da Vinci really stumble on a | | | | some aspects of the book that are fact. Those |
| Vatican plot to conceal the truth about Jesus, and | | | | who question their faith upon reading the Da Vinci |
| the expose it in his famous painting of the Last | | | | Code should as themselves whether it was really |
| Supper? | | | | "faith" in the first place. I think there are other |
| * Did the Bible really emerge as a "power play" | | | | pieces of evidence in this world that should cause |
| document in the early fourth century under the | | | | one to test their faith a little more than Dan |
| emperor Constantine, after Christianity finally won | | | | Browns novel. Andrew B. |
| its battle with paganism? | | | | "Give me a break, people! The Da Vinci Code is a |
| * Do the unbiblical "Gnostic Gospels" really reveal | | | | book of fiction with some facts thrown in (as far |
| truths about Jesus tat the church and New | | | | as religious sects, practices, etc.) If your faith is |
| Testament have hidden from us? | | | | strong, then you should be able to read it and still |
| * Was the role of women suppressed in the early | | | | believe in God. |
| centuries of the Christian faith? | | | | |