The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

WHY THE DA VINCI CODE IS SO POPULAR
divine approval on sexual promiscuity. Brown never says
directly that Jesus would approve of sexual immorality,
but it is easily inferred. After all, Dan Brown’s characters
are saying that we need to rediscover the real Jesus, the
“original feminist.” 55 The story says we need to free “real”
Christianity from the corruption of Peter and the male
apostles (who supposedly hijacked the religion from
Mary Magdalene, the rightful chief apostle). Since people
(because of mankind’s fallen condition) naturally
want to live without rules limiting their sex lives, and
since the spirituality promoted by The Da Vinci Code
grants them permission to experience the divine through
sex, it is no wonder the book is setting sales records.
Maybe it’s true when they say, “Sex sells.”
Another reason The Da Vinci Code is so popular is its
do-it-yourself approach to religion: Make up your own
rules of spirituality. Dan Brown isn’t saying Jesus is bad
or wrong. He is saying the Church has been preaching
the wrong Jesus. As Leigh Teabing says in the novel:
“…almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ
is false.” 56
ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS WITHIN THE CHURCH
The true conflict in this world is between God and
Satan. Today, however, with Christianity under siege
from all directions, what is perhaps most disconcerting
is the attack on Christ from within the Church. For
example, Dan Brown claims he is a Christian, but he
denies the deity of Jesus. We believe he has tapped into
the dissatisfaction of many former Christians—and even
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