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

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
A CONTRAST WITH GNOSTIC WRITINGS
While the New Testament faithfully recorded the
sayings and deeds of Jesus Christ, Dan Brown and others
today are holding the Gnostic writings—again second,
third, and fourth century writings—as superior to the
first century Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
Note what Dr. Erwin Lutzer, author of The Da Vinci
Deception, has to say:
…these Gnostic gospels are so fraudulent. They
are late dated, they are not written by the person
who they are purported to be written by, and
consequently, we have no reason to trust them.
Whereas, in the Gospels of the New Testament,
we do have solid historical evidence of
eyewitness accounts as to what Jesus Christ said,
and we know that these documents are early,
because of the quotations from the Church
Fathers, showing that they were already in
existence in the 1st Century. 97
In contrast, Dr. Lutzer tells us what Luke (who wrote
the Gospel According to Luke and the book of Acts) went
through to compose his Gospel:
Luke tells us in the first chapter what his
methodology was. He says, you know, many
others have made careful investigation as to
what has happened, but he says that I am
investigating this, and he was in a position to
be able to talk to people. There may have been
other documents in existence that he used, but
he carefully outlined his views of history and
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