"Let there be Light"!

In an article on The Da Vinci Code, Alexandra Alter asks why are fussing so much over fiction?

According to the Barna Group, a Christian research and polling agency, 53 percent of adults who read The Da Vinci Code report that the book has helped their "personal spiritual growth and understanding."

"An amazing number of people were reading it as this exciting guide to church history," said Carl Olson, coauthor of The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in the Da Vinci Code. "A lot of Christians have been thrown by the novel."
They've been thrown because they never believed or they suffer from a pitiful education and lack of interest in the Scripture. If someone writes a pot-boiler based on the idea that Stalin was a maligned but noble leader of last century who never killed or starved anyone, will they believe that too? (Now that I think of it, lots of people have bought into all types of Gossip and fiction.) I assume the ones who have been thrown by this novel were prejudiced on Jesus' history or that they were willing to believe the easier message.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts,

(Romans 1:22-24)


But the writers of the Bible anticipated this and others kinds of nonsense. Here's the close of a letter from the apostle Peter.

Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Peter 3:14-18)

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." II Timothy 4