The Da Vinci Code Deception
by: Spotlight Ministries, Vincent McCann, 2005 www.spotlightministries.org.uk

Quite a bold statement for a book that claims to be fiction! On the one hand, it claims to be fiction, but then, on the other hand, right at the outset, the reader is seized with the statement that the book is really based on actual facts.

But the only fact we can point to about this book is that it is full of historical inaccuracies, twisting of truth, and deception, all of which would leave many readers with an extremely distorted and damaged idea of who Jesus is and what Christianity is all about.

Many of the things the Da Vinci Code says are actually not really new. For example, there was a book out in the 1980’s called Holy Blood Holy Grail which claimed similar things to The Da Vinci Code (Indeed, many writers have noticed that this was almost certainly one of the main sources that Dan Brown used for the material in his book). What is new though is that the errors that the Da Vinci Code contains seem to be reaching a previously untapped audience, those who enjoy fictional stories, films, novels and the like, rather than theological or academic material.

Please click this to read highlights of the errors and areas of concern in the book:
http://www.spotlightministries.org.uk/davincicodearticle.htm