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Annette Agnello started writing in the tenth grade inspired by a wonderful teacher, and has been writing for publication over forty years. She started writing after she won a scholarship for a writing course from “Berean University.” Advocate Magazine, which held the contest, published her first article “Consider the Words of the Song”. Several years later she began writing poetry and had considerable success. She was regularly published in the first year of Faithwriters 500 e-magazine. She took some time away from writing due mainly to health issues fully supported by her loving husband Mario who is currently involved in a prison ministry while waiting for his minister’s licences to be awarded so he can become a full time evangelist.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Conents on DaVinci Code

There has been a lot about The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown lately. I heard preacher after preacher saying how bad it was, how it made our Lord Jesus into just a man not God. I wanted to know for myself so I read the book. It had potential to be a good book it did not have to tear down the Lord as it did.

The worst parts of the book are the opening page that starts with the word FACT: in bold print. The problem is the book is filled with poorly reached facts that are simply wrong. That page ends with, “All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.” Unfortunately this is simply untrue start with La Pyramide, the first artwork described in detail, on page 18 which has inaccurate dimensions. Dates are also frequently wrong like the date for the founding of the Priory of Sion which is off by 900 years. One of the people interviewed about the book was a history professor who said that if one of his students turned in a paper with errors like the book they would have gotten an “F.”

The most insidious character is Sir Leigh Teabing. He is the one who preaches to Sophie that Jesus was only a man and that the four gospels are not the most accurate accounts. He, and Mr Brown, seems to believe the Gnostic gospels written over 200 hundred years after Jesus are more accurate than those written by Matthew, and John his own disciples and those written by mark and Luke and Mark who were associates of the apostle Paul. All of which either knew Jesus in person or had contact with those who did.

When I was a child I read a science fiction book that had Ezekiel’s account of the wheel within a wheel as being a sighting of a flying saucer. I know this sounds farfetched but I bought that as a preteen and it shook my then fragile belief in God thinking he was not the Lord but a space alien. It took me a while to get over this I can only imagine what Teabing’s outright lies will do to the unbeliever or the new believer who does not yet know facts from these outright lies. Before I read it I thought pointing out it was fiction would be enough. We need to be armed with the real facts to prove it is not facts in spite of what was falsely presented.