THE DAVINCI CODE, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE BIBLE

If you decide to read The Da Vinci Code or see the movie, it would be much better if you were well-grounded in the Bible rather than have your opinion about the Bible and Jesus Christ formed from this novel or film! People are so intrigued by secret conspiracies that they imagine them, invest in them and exaggerate them. But this blinds them to the world’s greatest conspiracy and cover-up: the one pulled off by “Satan, who deceives the whole world” (Revelation 12:9). Jesus Christ called him “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11). Paul said it is “the god of this age [who] has blinded” everyone (2 Corinthians 4:4). John wrote that “the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one” (1 John 5:19). Satan doesn’t care what you believe as long as it is not the truth. He would have you piece together your own god in whatever image you choose. Satan has always wanted to destroy Jesus Christ and the truth that He taught. He influenced King Herod to try to kill Jesus when He was a child (Matthew 2:1-18). He tried to tempt Him to sin (Matthew 4:1-11). He tried many times to get Jesus killed and finally succeeded - with a Roman crucifixion no less. But Christ arose from the dead after three days and three nights, and later ascended to heaven where He rules at the right hand of God (1 Peter 3:21-22). But Satan has never stopped trying to “suppress the truth” (Romans 1:18). He continually circulates countless counter-feits of biblical Christianity as well as innumerable other religions. But there is only one way to eternal life: through Jesus Christ and His revealed Word, the Bible. (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). www.ucg.org