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Joyce K. Young: This is a novel, nothing but fiction. You people need to get a life.

Kim Pratt: Amen, Sister. DVC is pure trash and it does grieve the Holy Spirit. And does anyone remember that the elect CANNOT be deceived? Maybe this movie will separate the sheep and goats a bit.

Josh Johnson: Indeed this movie presents blasphemy and heresy, but as Christians, we have a duty to present the truth. Ignoring the problem does not make it go away. Loving the world and listening openly without condemning is the way to respond. I am appalled that you would back away from such a time as this, a time to love non-believers as Christ would. You seem to show no sign that you believe Christ's power is with you. You act as if his Spirit can't fight this battle. What a shame to see this lack of faith.

Blair Wainman: Nicolosi is right. God doesn't any more need defending than this culture needs to be engaged. Engaging the secular culture is like embracing a piece of rotten meat: You can do it but you come away smelling bad yourself. Going to see a movie that blasphemes Christ is not the answer to reaching out to people in this secular culture.

Heather Tayloe: Nicolosi seems so angry—who stepped on her puppy? I don't understand to whom she is speaking when she says "what can we as Christians do in response … "Is she speaking to those she calls "teeming little narcissistic lambs"? Aren't we all sheep? A bit of a superiority complex if you ask me!

Shirley Holden: I enjoyed this book for what it was: Fiction. It's people who make a big deal of it that worry me.

Rachel Ward: FANTASTIC article!! Count me in for Over the Hedge on May 19th. I'll be taking six other paying people with me, and passing along your idea to everyone I know.

Tom McElroy: Poor Barbara. Scared little sheep. The Big Bad Wolf is on the loose, run away! Perhaps she has forgotten 1 John 4:4: "Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." Or Matthew 16:18: "On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The book/film is only dangerous to professing Christians who have no root. Westminster Theological Seminary has a thorough website debunking DVC and providing a solid scholarly resource for God's people to meet this challenge head on—and to talk to non-believers about it. That's Plan A. Plan B is to run, hide, and go see some great, spirit strengthening, apologetic stretching, sanctifying fluff like Over the Hedge. I'm goin' with Plan A.

Mike Shipman: Paul engaged the Greek philosophers at Mars Hill; he didn't condemn them. Being defensive and retiring behind our church walls is in my opinion a reactionary response to a great opportunity to engage with people who do not normally go to church.

Suzanne O'Connor: It's just a movie. It's just a story. Sometimes it's good to stretch your imagination and think of other possibilities, as different and off beat as they may be. I'm not so afraid to let this be "introduced into my heart and mind." How silly. Go see it and buy a lot of popcorn and Jujubees.

Steve Gertz: Nicolosi's warnings about debating the Devil is at the heart of the matter. How many Christians really are prepared to rebut the idea that the Bible is the result of political machinations and not truth as Christians hold it? What many Christians may not realize about this attack on the Council of Nicea is that opponents of Christian faith have for centuries been arguing that that council dreamed up Jesus' divinity. This argument was made in the Middle Ages by Muslims, and others have argued similarly. I find it instructive that long before Dan Brown and the Gnostic Gospel fad, those denying Jesus' divinity had Nicaea in their crosshairs.

Linda Closson: Finally, a biblically sound approach to the Da Vinci Code heresy! Kudos to Barbara Nicolosi.

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Many Christians see The Da Vinci Code as an opportunity for evangelism; others say it's a chance to engage the culture. Rubbish.Da Vinci is dangerous, so I'd like to suggest a better alternative.