Buku ini berusaha meluruskan kebenaran yang sebenarnya dari novel Da Vince Code-nya Dan Brown...
Cuman buat gue, cara memaparkannya kurang bagus, terkesan berat buat ukuran gue (atau mungkin krn gue baca versi bhs indonesia, penerjemahnya yang kurang oke kali yaa..)

Garlow manages to debunk in barely 100 pages what Brown has taken well over 300 (if I remember right) to set up as a truth claim, and Brown's position is based on very dodgy, shaky, and questionable evidence. While Garlow's book is rather short and may feel abrupt, it establishes sufficient factual evidence to render Brown's thriller entirely a work of fiction. Unfortunately, many, many people are stupid enough to buy Brown's claims. That's why The Da Vinci Code was such a sensation. I read it myself and must agree that it is rather an engaging thriller, and Dan Brown is a writer of considerable talent (I much prefer Digital Fortress, however, as Brown's religious thrillers are outright infuriating in their shameless audience manipulation. He's getting rich off the childish ignorance of the masses). If you want more factual support for the truth and validity of Christianity and the deity of Jesus Christ, read the works of Lee Strobel. And don't feed me that line about how the bias of authors like Garlow and Strobel drive their presentation of the evidence. So does Brown's, but at least the truth pretty much speaks for itself, even stripped of bias. There is no truth to Brown's claims. None.

I was somewhat disappointed with the book because I felt as if they were talking down to me, as well as being fairly repetitious with their arguments in various chapters. In my view the book could have covered the meat of their arguments in half the pages.

I purchased this book for 2 reasons. One is because when I lived in San Diego, James Garlow was the pastor at my church. Two, because the Davinchi Code made me angry.

I delved into this book, and was very surprised. It is now he said, she said. I was expecting much more "evidence" to support the cause of the book, but it seemed more like personal opinions. Keep in mind, this is a short little book. I noticed when I was done reading it, that you could offer a larger book that allowed for Bible study or personal growth. So maybe the smaller book didn't have what I was looking for.

Just wondering why it's necessary to "crack" a book of fiction.?

Teología barata hecha por cristianos asustados para asustar a más cristianos.
Imaginense un "Dios no ha muerto" pero en libro... haciendose las victimas, sacando to de contexto y con un montón de falacias.
Le pongo una estrellla porque hay que ponerle nota.

I really enjoyed this book. I read it in 3 days.

I even liked the fictional story of Carrie and her issues with her Pagan feminist Goddess worshiping room-mate. (these people really do exist - I've chatted with many of them.)

This book is only a beginning to learning the historical truths of Christianity. Garlow and Jones most likely could have easily made this offering 3000 pages long. Personally i would of enjoyed that too.
The issues this book brings up are very relevant to modern Christianity and Biblical scholarship. A day doesn't seem to go by where i'm not trying to undo the mess caused by the Jesus Seminar (especially Pagels and Ehrman.) But as we can see from other reviews of this book: people will believe what they want to believe...Good luck!

Probably made me appreciate Dan Brown more...showed how the author could convince his readers that he was telling the truth. This book offers all the rebuttals to Browns book.

I started reading this book blindly for the most part. I have seen the movie version of the Da Vinci Code but have yet to read the book. Even if I had read the book I would have still disagreed with a number of statements that are mentioned with in this book and the lack of research done by the authors on the Pagan religions that they are condemning is an insult to scholars everywhere!

just like that show..Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
the book's trying to reveal whoch of the novel is fact and fiction..

I have only skimmed "The Da Vinci Code". I admit that right now. However, I did get the gist of the book. But before I even peeked at Brown, I had read this book through. This book was incredibly helpful. (Another book I would recommend would be "the Case for the Real Jesus" by Lee Strobel)
At the beginning of each chapter we read a short story about Carrie, a college student who is being introduced to the "Sacred Feminine."
Easy to understand and on the whole enjoyable.

Tidak mudah membaca buku ini. Secara struktur dan bahasa, terasa sangat berat. Kedua pengarang, DR. James L.Garlow dan DR.Peter Jones adalah dua teolog kenamaan.

Buku ini bermaksud menjelaskan tentang hal-hal yang dibeberkan oleh Dan Brown dalam NOVEL nya, "The DaVinci Code". Kalau target buku ini adalah orang yang tidak beriman Kristen, kemungkinan besar buku ini tak membantu apa-apa. kalau targetnya adalah orang Kristen, buku ini bagus untuk memperdalam keyakinan tentang Yesus. Tapi bisa juga orang semakin bertanya-tanya setelah baca buku ini.

Jadi menurut saya, buku ini sebenarnya agak berlebihan merespon suatu novel, dengan penguatan iman.
Boleh jadi dalam konteks Amerika, orang sekarang banyak yang mencari aliran "New Paganisme", sehingga James Garlow dan Peter Jones memerlukan menulis buku seperti ini.

Buat saya, DaVinci Code hanyalah sebuah cerita fiksi, novel yang tidak perlu dibahas terlalu serius.