Friday, May 26, 2006

Da Vinci Code: Fiction is not Deciept

It is interesting that some Christians are branding the Da Vinci Code as deceptive.  When did fiction become deceit?  Does that make the Perreti books deceit?  Does it make all the fiction in the Word or Koorong book stores deceit? I am sure that they are not factual accounts of how the spirit world does battle?  The Da Vinci Code is a fictitious account of the search for the Holy Grail, are we so concerned that the world will buy into it and truly believe that there is the secret society of Pagans that have been charged for the last 2000+ years to protect the Holy Grail of Christ?  That is not even going into the issues surrounding Christ!  The movie is a good flick but quite slow and does not grab your attention with any great power. The plot builds very slowly and you start to see the conspiracy unfold gradually.  The technology is astounding I wish I could get a GPS that small and that powerful with a transmitter in it too!  

The references to Christ being married and having descendants is not over done and does it indicate that he sinned (I think that Jesus was not of the opinion that Marriage was sin) It's not what I understand as the way history played out. 


The main point for me occurs near the end when Tom Hanks character Robert Langdon tells co-start Sophie Neveu played by Audrey Tautou that what really matters is what your believe about Jesus that really matters. 



If the Christian world spends all it's effort and energy debating the fiction in this story and does not engage people in the question about what do people believe about Jesus then the church can not blame Dan Brown for writing fiction about Christ, it will be the church that has failed.  However I am sure that this will not be the case.  To read two good reviews of the movie Click here of Craig's Rant and here for  The Australian Christian 1 and here for 2  

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