I just don't get why they react like it's the end of the world or a bomb has exploded in their house. It's just a novel to entertain and spark up other views. I don't see why people overreact. It's just a normal book(or movie..), like any other. I found the book fascinating and interesting, like a lot of other mystery books. In fact, the author says he's even Christian.
I'm also Christian, and yet I don't have any grudge against it or anything like that. If they find the book not interesting, then shouldn't they just not read it, ignore it, instead of totally getting enraged when they even hear about it?
I'm just curious.
2006-07-17 19:21:44 · 20 answers · asked by Lunatic11 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you know what you believe and how the book has attacked it, then you will change your opinion.
Anti Christians had always targeted the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and the authenticity and divine inspiration of the Bible, because these are the two things that make the Christian faith unique. This book too has attacked these basic tenets of Christian faith, but very subtly. That exactly, is the work of the devil. The main issue is bringing Jesus down to the level of an ordinary sinful human being, when the Bible says that He is God incarnate. He is the one and only, there can never be anyone like Him. This you will understand only if you know your Bible and the God revealed in it. His marriage makes him equal to other men. To establish this, is the story of the royal French lineage and the misrepresentation of the Priory of Sion etc.
Then the argument that the emperor removed the books of the Bible to paint Jesus as divine. These are blatant lies with malicious intentions. Brown is either ill informed or has been influenced by the devil with the lure of riches and fame.
Any way, a Christian is against it, at the least, because of these reasons. We don't need to defend our God, He is capable of doing it Himself. The defense, if at all, is for the sake of the weak believer.
2006-07-17 19:58:30 · answer #1 · answered by lalskii 3 · 7⤊ 9⤋
Some Christians react badly to being told that, like the Da Vinci Code, thier Bible is just a book too. It is doubtless more founded in confirmed facts in many instances, but was written by mankind, and is therefore fallible. Christians are taught from an early age, however, that it is the ultimate source of knowledge and comes directly from God--it should never be challenged. Being given another opinion often makes these people uncomfortable in something that have grown accustomed to--something that they do not expect to change. I have directly had a man tell me that "It (The Da Vinci Code) says that the Bible lies." Firstly, the Bible is inanimate and so cannot lie, and secondly, refer to the original point in this answer. This is the most prominent explanation of this overreactive behavior you described that I have encountered.
2006-07-17 19:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by silenthavens 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all we r not enraged. television and news people or whatever always try to make it look like the church is upset about this stuff. the church is secure enough knowing she is rite.
what the Da Vinci Code says disagrees with what the church teaches. it may be interesting yes, but it should be seen as fiction. i think the church would like people to know that when reading it. problem is, most people dont know, and they may take it seriously. The church's teaching is not something that can be changed, no matter how many "new veiws" people have. the church already sorted the balony from the fact way back when. and people are just bringing up the balony now becuase the average person doesnt know about it. (balony as in fake, or uninspired gospels)
2006-07-17 19:30:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of possible reasons as I see it:
First, many people, regardless of faith, have a hard time telling the difference between fact and fiction (so much so that Kevin Smith has to have disclaimers on the intro to the movie Dogma). If a book, which is obviously intended as entertainment, is touted as fact, it's going to rattle some people.
Another possible reason (and this is the scarier one) is that they can't face the possibility that someone might have a view of something that is different from theirs...
A healthy approach to Christianity requires that we (according to Paul's letter to Timothy) Study to show ourselves approved. That doesn't mean just reading the Bible... it means exploring other views to develop a more rounded understanding of our faith.
2006-07-17 19:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by Rev T L Clark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Catholic and I do not see it that way, but if I was to say that I thought that that book had some great ideas to my family, my family would throw the Bible at me literally. Frankly, I think that it is interesting. Jesus was a Jewish man, he could have had a wife and family, but who is really to say? No one on here was alive 2,000+ years ago, so no one on here would have the answer to that. I do agree with some of the things the church teaches, but sometimes one has to wonder if there is more under the surface. I think everyone should question everything about their religion. You would be surprised as to how much of your beliefs do not make any sense at all.
2006-07-17 19:34:00 · answer #5 · answered by Andrea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I regard it as an interesting but often misleading work of fiction. I have read the book and I enjoyed it but then I do not treat it as Gospel. Unfortunately many do and that is the problem. The Catholic Church did not call for a protest but for a silent protest of the movie with no one going to see it. Some chose to go, I did not!
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-07-17 20:59:51 · answer #6 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very simple lol (at least I am biased enough to think so)
They are afraid of being wrong. From the beginning of faith people have fought each other on who is right and who knows gods intentions best.
But in my eyes I like simplicity for example in English we call the thing we sit on a chair and others in other languages will call it something else does it change it from being a chair. Anyways so the point is that there is one god and everyone sees him differently. Everyone fights over the same sacred areas for control but again see the same place differently. If only people were not so proud they would start bringing their different views together and look for the one true faith.
For me it is god loves as all as he made us all. We will all go to heaven for he will do all he can to save us if we only believe and trust in him and for those who may not believe now it is the faith of others that will still save them and grant them a place in heaven.
Cheers
Michael H Flack
2006-07-17 19:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by flackstar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When all the hoopla came out, I remember reading the book a long time ago. It was fiction, so that is how I considered it.
As to why people are over-reacting....maybe there are so many world events that are beyond any one person's help, that some people feel like, at least in this issue, their voice can be heard.
2006-07-17 19:27:49 · answer #8 · answered by woman of faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its bad because it is making a mockery of our religion. i dont care if we know it is fiction. at the end of the day dan brown has never admitted this. and on all the ads they say a secret that will shake the church and that has been covered up. now of course it is fiction. but that doesnt change the fact that they are saying jesus was married and had children. and that he is not god. what kind of christian would we be if we found this acceptable. how would jesus feel knowing people are writing this about him. i for one am firmily against the book, even though i know it is fictional.
2006-07-17 23:23:40 · answer #9 · answered by dumdum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians and Catholics who are really true to their faith knows the truth that Dan brown the author of "Da Vinci Code" just wrote a fiction story about JESUS
And that is why they still have their faith forever in JESUS CHRIST while the whole world is now forgetting "Da Vinci Code"
Things will come and go but JESUS CHRIST will remain forever and ever
2006-07-17 19:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by GloryofGOD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The danger of the DaVinci Code is that ignorant people of little faith will read it, think it's true, and lose what little faith they have left.
Dan Brown claims to be Christian, but he doesn't know what type of Christian he is.
Neither do I.
Maybe he's a DanBrownian Christian who believes all the nonsense that he put into his seriously flawed book.
I don't know about you, but I know BLASPHEMY when I see it, and Dan Brown's book is full of it, in more ways than one!
2006-07-17 22:27:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋