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22 Ibid., 232.
23 The Bible declares that no murderer has eternal life (1 John 3:15). That
means that no one who claims to be saved and goes out and commits murder
is truly saved. (That includes Albino monks, of whom there are none in Opus
Dei). We know in history that some who have claimed to be Christians have
murdered in the name of Christ, to wit, the Spanish Inquisition. But that doesn’t
mean what they did was right. It certainly wasn’t correct from a biblical perspective.
(In fact, some of those killed in the Inquisition were Bible-believing
Christians.) Furthermore, that doesn’t mean that such murderers went to
Heaven. A former murderer who repents and puts his faith in the salvation of
the Lord can be saved, e.g., King David (Psalm 51). But no one who is truly
saved will then go out and commit murder.
24 Hank Hanegraaff & Paul L. Maier, The Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction?
(Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2004), 12.
25 Ibid.
26 Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (New York, et al.: Doubleday, 2003), 1.
27 Ibid., 345.
28 Ibid., 233.
29 Will Durant, Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of
Christianity From Their Beginnings to a.d. 325 (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1944; renewed 1972), 652.
30 The Nicene Creed in Felician A. Foy, ed., The 1988 Catholic Almanac
(Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1987),
199-200.
31 Paraphrase of Phillip Cary, “The Logic of Trinitarian Doctrine,” Religious and
Theological Studies Fellowship Bulletin (September/October 1995): 2, cited in
Roger E. Olson’s and Christopher A. Hall, The Trinity (Grand Rapids: Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002), 46.
32 Jim Garlow and Peter Jones, Cracking Da Vinci’s Code (Colorado Springs:
Victor, an imprint of Cook Communications, 2004), 94.
33 Paul Maier, quoted in D. James Kennedy, Who Is This Jesus (Ft. Lauderdale:
Coral Ridge Ministries-TV, 2000), a video.
34 D. A. Carson, quoted in ibid.
35 Bruce Metzer, quoted in ibid.
36 N. T. Wright, quoted in ibid.
37 Sam Lamerson, quoted in ibid.
38 N. T. Wright, quoted in ibid.
39 Darrell L. Bock, Breaking the Da Vinci Code (Nashville: Thomas Nelson,
2004), 131.
40 Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (New York, et al.: Doubleday, 2003), 231.
41 James M. Robinson, gen. ed., The Nag Hammadi Library in English (San
Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1978 /
1990), 148.
42 Erwin Lutzer, The Da Vinci Deception (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale, 2004), 67.
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