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 Da Vinci mode
Da Vinci mode
Many people seem to be in the Da Vinci mode these days as they await the showing of the on-screen adaptation of the all-time bestseller novel (40 million copies as of March 2006) by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code.

Expect this mode to reach hypnotic level after the opening in May 19.  All seems to be in place for a major summer film blockbuster: highly acclaimed international cast and some of the finest actors in Hollywood like Oscar winners Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks and directed by an Oscar winner himself, Ron Howard.  Also, all seems to be in place for a major revision and reconstruction of the historical Christ we all know.  The film alleges among others that Leonardo Da Vinci was homosexual and that the Mona Lisa was a self-portrait of himself.  But the allegation that must alarm Philippine Christianity is that Jesus, it says, had a wife and had a child.  This information according to the book was kept secret by the Church ever since its foundation.   The Lord Jesus it seems still has descendants today in France.

Dr. Randall Gleason of the Conservative Baptist Seminary – Asia has gone around to campuses in Metro Manila and CBAP regional councils in Luzon and Visayas since late last year.  He has been presenting a seminar entitled “Can We Trust the Bible?” as a response to “Dan Brown’s demolition job” (as one local columnist puts it) of the historical facts of the Bible.  Hundreds of people have already benefited from the seminars on Dr. Gleason especially the skeptics.  Dr. Gleason shared to us that after his seminar a student in La Salle wrote him, referring to The Da Vinci Code as that “damned book!”  Because of Dr. Gleason’s seminar, people are becoming aware of the truth (or untruth) behind The Da Vinci Code. 

It is important that Christians know about this book.  The book alleges that Jesus impregnated Mary Magdalene (how he knows about this, nobody knows) and she gave birth to a daughter named Sarah – in France! (how she got there, nobody knows).  But what we do know is that Brown, who made it to Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the year, has used fabrications, inaccurate historical data and mythological tradition in his supposed to be book of “facts.”

To protect myself from the Da Vinci mode, I took a ride with Dr. Gleason to Baguio where he would conduct the seminar.  I listened to three hours of passionate talk that dealt with church and world history, with ancient documents, copies and manuscripts and many more.  As one of the attendees of the seminar emphatically said, “Dr. Gleason gave a blow by blow presentation of spiritual, historical, cultural and archaeological facts that exposed the devilish conspiracy of Satan and his agents to attack the Bible.” 

If you want to know more about how to conduct a The Da Vinci Code seminar in your CBAP regional council and inform your kapatiran, call us here at CBS-Asia or text Mylene/09224846401 for details.

 
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