Special edition with a theme…..

James White catches a matinee of the Code and posts his thoughts on it. His last paragraph is gold:

One thing is for certain: just as the book is designed to inculcate doubt about the veracity of the Bible and the entire Christian faith, the film moves that idea out of the printed page and presents it with compelling images on the screen. And given that our culture is made up primarily now of those who are visually oriented, used to “sound-bites” instead of lengthy periods of concentrated thought, and who are trained to disbelieve and think in the most muddied fashion, The Da Vinci Code will once again highlight the reality that the evangelistic task today must be apologetic from the start. We are seeking not only to proclaim the facts of the gospel anymore. No, now we must deal with the very existence of truth itself! Those who refuse to see that this is part and parcel of what it means to proclaim the good news in Western culture today are simply ignoring the reality all around them.

Steve Camp gives his quick review of the movie along with some good summary points. He sums it up in one sentence: “40,000,000 people can be wrong.”

Al Mohler posts an edited version of his address given at Covenant Life Church on May 7th, 2006. His words are very appropriate on how our attitude should be toward the movie and the book:

It is not important that Christians either see this movie or read this book. But it is important that we be armed with enough knowledge of the storyline so that when our neighbors, friends, coworkers, and family members begin talking about this, we can say, “Well, no, I am not shocked to hear that. The church has heard this kind of thing before. I am not shocked to hear that, because there have been efforts in the very beginning of Christianity to subvert the truth with a lie. Even in the New Testament, Paul himself was warning against false gospels.”

In fact, Scripture tells us there are many who will prefer a lie to the truth, even a lie that is easily dismissible, even a lie that is transparently false, even a lie that is so undocumented that it simply falls of the weight of its own audacity. There are persons who would rather believe a lie packaged in a glittery Hollywood movie than the truth so plainly revealed in the Word of God.

If you’ve got 30 mins to kill, Jolly Blogger links to the VERY hilarious ‘Norman Rockwell Code’.

A while back, Tim Challies called folk to the carpet who spent time praising the Passion of the Christ (which distorted the gospel), yet now want to spend time bashing the DaVinci Code.

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Christine over at iWestminster links to an article by Richard Mouw (former pres at Fuller Seminary).

Done for the day. T4G articles up next.

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