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An excellent way to prime the pump, July 4 2004

This short booklet is an excellent way to get a brief overview of, and begin understanding the problems with the novel, "The Da Vinci Code." Hanegraaff and Maier have offered a quick, yet thoughtful read in an effort to keep Dan Brown's best selling novel in proper perspective. They offer comfort to young and/or inexperienced Christians who have been taken off guard by the novel and have begun to question whether their faith is reasonable, or just a hoax.

This is a short read at a cheap price. It is not an exhaustive tome, however, that is not what it was designed to be. Please consider also reading Lee Strobel's "The Case For Christ" as it not only deals with many key issues in this debate, but has a very thorough bibliography directing readers to some excellent study materials in dealing with the strength of Christianity. The two books overlap in quite a few areas.

Hanegraaff and Meier believe that Christians ought not to see their faith as believing in something implausible, but in something which holds up to intense scrutiny. Hanegraaff has said often on his radio broadcast, The Bible Answer Man, "Faith is not a leap into darkness, but a leap into the light."