My Life, Your Story.

Do u noe i'm getting pretty excited abt the movie, Da Vinci Code?

& i believe with the controversy this book & movie it's creating now, if we look deeper into the issues, not only will our faith increase (yes, increase, not diminish) but also we will be better equipped to talk to our friends if they have any qns for Christianity in regard to the book.

"The debate that is being generated is a positive powerful force. The more vigorously we debate these topics, the better our understanding of our own spirituality. Controversy and dialogue are healthy for religion as a whole. Religion has only one enemy - apathy - and passionate debate is a superb antidote." - Dan Brown

And this book has just done that. People who had never given a second thought to such issues have found themselves searching the web for the historic roots of Christianity, and "Constantine", which has not been a popular search word since...well, actually it's never been a popular search word, is now Googled daily.

The famous Oxford professor C.S Lewis presented the dilemma of definition:

"I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the real foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we MUST NOT SAY. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a mad man or something worse... But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

The Da Vinci Code book and movie provide an opportunity for anyone and everyone to consider afresh the claims of Jesus Christ. In the World's Great Religions, Huston Smith observed,

"Only 2 people ever astounded their contemporaries so much that the question they evoked was not "Who is he?" but "What is he?"

They were Jesus and Buddha. The answers these two gave were exactly the opposite.
Buddha said unequivocally that he was a mere man, not a god - almost as if he foresaw later attempts to worship him.

Jesus, on the other hand, claimed... to be divine."

Biblical scholar, Josh McDowell said, "The truth is our friend. True historical data hold no skeletons for belief. In my case, it led to faith. But you want to look for answers in history not fiction."