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Challenges to the historical existence of Jesus Christ arise regularly. Consider
the best-selling fiction book The Da Vinci Code. Author Dan Brown
claims that Jesus married and had children by one of His followers, Mary Magdalene,
and that her body is the actual "Holy Grail."
Critic Sandra Miesel incisively targets the substance and style of Brown's
book: "It would be too easy to criticize him for characters thin as plastic
wrap, undistinguished prose, and improbable action. But Brown isn't so
much writing badly as writing in a particular way best calculated to attract
a female audience. (Women, after all, buy most of the nation's books.)
He has married a thriller plot to a romance-novel technique" ("Dismantling
The Da Vinci Code," www.crisismagazine.com/september2003/feature1.htm).
The bulk of Brown's cited sources are other speculative books, all too typically oriented toward modern feminism, which attempt to deride and degrade the existence and deity of Jesus. The Da Vinci Code is not a book of historical fact.
Even so, such dubious books about Jesus Christ mesmerize some people. It almost seems such folks would consider Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Monty Python's The Holy Grail to be factual documentaries! People with mind-sets like that certainly aren't vertical thinkers. But the biblical account of Jesus is real, and you can prove it. Following are four powerful proofs of His existence.
Here's a quick lesson on the transmission of ancient history down to our day. With the exception of rock inscriptions, very few original, historical documents now exist because they disintegrated or were burned or otherwise destroyed in the past. Handmade copies of old documents, some of which are ancient or near ancient themselves, are our key windows to ancient history.
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