Many people mistakenly assume that the Bible was copied and changed from texts written long after the events they describe. It's easy to demonstrate that this common misconception is false, if only people would be willing to talk about it. Fortunately, Dan Brown got everyone talking about it when he promoted this popular myth in his attempt to attack Christianity in his fictional novel “The Da Vinci Code”. This controversy gave historians and Christians everywhere an opportunity to educate people and to present the evidence that the Bible manuscripts we have today say exactly the same as the originals, which were written so soon after the events they describe that the original audience included the eyewittnesses themselves.
This opportunity to discuss these important facts might be the reason why this video (which I highly recommend you watch) is called “The Gift of the Da Vinci Code”:
Here's James White's take on the matter:
And finally, even I eventually got in on the action. Here's a fun little article called “Keys to the Da Vinci Code” which I wrote in 2006 for Student Life just before the movie (which is also ridiculous) came out:
