yeah, who would have thought! It is funny, but last semester, in Historical Theology, we traced the history of the church following the ascension of Christ. In the class we discussed topics, such as gnosticism, eutychianism, appolinarianism and a bunch of others. Personally, I was interested but didn't see the point of camping on some of these first century heresies. That is until I started to look at the Da Vinci code...

It seems that in the book that I read that broke down the arguments that the Da Vinci code was making, I realized that all of the arguments that were being made were in some shape or form an extension of the 1st century attacks on Christianity.

I don't believe history repeats itself but I do believe that past beliefs crop up at unexpected times. In my examination of the problem, I was relieved to discover that the Da Vinci code is nothing more than that. Unfortunately, it is leading millions astray and many Christians see Dan Brown as the devil, but he is not. He is nothing more than a man with a pen who has also been led astray much in the same way that many 1st century believers were led away by gnostics.

I don't have the time to debate the book right now but hopefully this will spur some food for thought and you can go to the link below to find out for yourself of you can buy some of the numerous books about this subject. (I highly reccomend, Irwin Lutzer, Darryl Bock, or James L. Garlow & Peter Jones)

The Da Vinci Code