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Filed under: News — josh @ 6:53 am
Grizzly Adams® Productions, Inc. (GAP), producers of family friendly network television shows, announced that the SciFi Channel will air GAP’s Cracking Da Vinci’s Code program examining Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code. The SciFi Channel, owned by NBC Universal, will broadcast the two-hour Da Vinci special, as a world premiere during prime time on May 18.
The broadcast of this program is timed to coincide with the release of the Sony Pictures major theatrical movie The Da Vinci Code on May 19. The Ron Howard directed film, from Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, stars Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.
GAP’s Cracking Da Vinci’s Code, based on the best-selling book of the same title by Dr. James Garlow and Dr. Peter Jones (Cook Communications), will examine the facts and the fiction behind Dan Brown’s best-selling novel. A variety of church groups, and even Opus Dei, a Catholic organization portrayed as a sinister group in Brown’s book, are asking that the Columbia Pictures movie include a disclaimer that the show contains fictional elements.
The TV special produced for SciFi is expected to provide a more factual examination of the characters, events and organizations Brown wrote about in his book and portrayed in the movie.
“Cracking Da Vinci’s Code engages the viewer’s intellect and provides provocative insight into this 2000-year-old mystery, and the historical evidence that leads viewers to the truth behind The Da Vinci Code,” says David W. Balsiger, senior producer for GAP.
“Although a work of fiction, Brown’s book claims to be meticulously researched,” observes Chuck Sellier, president of GAP. “The so-called fact page at the beginning of Brown’s book compels an investigation into his research which this TV special does in greater depth than any other expose of his novel.”
Can the controversial contents of The Da Vinci Code be true? Are Brown’s “facts” provable? Was Jesus married? Did he have a daughter? Did Leonardo Da Vinci try to warn us through his painting of The Last Supper? Some of the information that provides the basis for Brown’s novel, if true, could profoundly affect the Christian faith.
Cracking Da Vinci’s Code uses interviews of leading experts in theology, archaeology, art history, philosophy and science to examine the facts and the fiction behind Brown’s best-selling novel—40 million copies sold to date! Along with commentary from leaders in these fields, Cracking Da Vinci’s Code includes on-location segments of key places featured in the book, as well as information about Da Vinci’s masterpieces featured in the story.
“Cracking Da Vinci’s Code will fascinate viewers with its investigations. Seeing the actual location brings the evidence to life,” states Balsiger. “Being told something is true has less impact than being shown the truth.”
Grizzly Adams Productions (GAP), named after its long-running NBC Network TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, produces “Sweeps Weeks” TV Specials and series for the i Network (formally PAX-TV) and major cable channels. During the past 30 years, GAP producers have created more than 500 family friendly TV specials and series for NBC, CBS, PAX, Discovery, The Learning Channel and other networks.
About Cracking Da Vinci’s Code; Fiction or fact? What is the truth about:
* Jesus—Was he married and the father of a daughter?
* Mary Magdalene—Was she Jesus’ choice to lead the church until some men took it away from her?
* Christianity—Was it the product of pagan beliefs?
* The Church—Did the church kill more than five million females?
* The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper—Do these paintings contain hidden clues and warnings to us?
Using historical evidence, Cracking Da Vinci’s Code provides provable answers to the questions viewers have wanted to know about the “facts” behind the Da Vinci Code novel and movie.
Religious retailers may order Grizzly Adams DVD programs from Triumph Marketing at (678) 947-5615. Secular retailers can acquire DVD program titles from Grizzly Adams Family Entertainment at (866) 328-0057 / www.grizzlyadams.com. For more information on GAP’s library of 400 TV specials/VHS/DVD programs, distributed by Grizzly Adams Productions, visit www.grizzlyadams.tv.
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May 15, 2006
Filed under: News — admin @ 11:06 am
“A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years… which could shake the foundations of Christianity.”
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code book has taken the world by storm and even managed to land its author in a British court to fend off accusations of plagiarism. Bookstores can’t stock it fast enough, and the movie based on the book, that comes out this week is sure to be a hit in cinemas around the world.
The book tells of a grand cover-up of secret scripture that suggests Jesus didn’t die on the cross, that he and Mary Magdalene got married, went to what is now France and raised a family, the descendants of whom still live among us.
It also outlines a grand scheme by the Catholic Church to keep all this stuff hidden by any means, including murder. It’s getting so much attention that it’s beginning to blur the line between fiction and fact.
Reverent James Martin, a Jesuit priest, mentions whenever he preaches the gospel, he’s inevitably asked questions based on the assumption that The Da Vinci Code somehow is history and not the product of Dan Brown’s imagination.
Do secret Catholic societies really kill people to keep the secret under wraps? No, he responds. Where in France did Jesus and Mary Magdalene live? How many kids did they have? Nowhere and none, Martin replies.
Yet the priest worries young people especially will take Brown’s novel as fact and will come away with a flawed view of Christianity, so much so they will wander Europe trying try to find the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Christ…
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May 3, 2006
Filed under: News — josh @ 11:07 am
If you have never heard of a Christian metal band called Bride, I urge you to check out their web-site, called Bride Pub. They are one of the oldest Christian metal bands around, like Tourniquet. You can hear some of their music at their myspace here: www.myspace.com/bridemusic
I thought everyone may be interested in reading this article that Bride put up. You can read more here.
Here’s the article:
“Recently I received this question via email from someone who supports Bride’s work. “I was wondering why you follow Jesus and not other religions? I believe in Jesus and his teachings but I also am into new age and the acceptance of other’s religion and read their sacred texts also. This is not a stab; this is a serious question. This is also not a joke.” This was my response. John 14:6 “I am the way the truth and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.” This is a statement which Jesus made concerning access to the Father. There is no way according to scripture to reach God without going through Jesus Christ. In the book of Exodus, it is plainly written in Chapter 20, verse 5, “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.” Isaiah 42:8 “I am the Lord; that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” To say you believe in the teachings of Christ is nothing; even the devils fear and believe (James 2:19). To follow what Christ taught seems to be where most people draw the line in their relationship with him. Is 45:20 says, “why would you want to pray to a god that cannot save?” Romans 1:22-23 speaks of man’s ill reverence to the one true living God. “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 four footed beasts, and creeping things.”
New Age embraces concepts like crystals, mysticism, UFO encounters, entities masquerading as extra terrestrials, channeling, etc. God will not permit such things to pervert his holy and sovereign ways because he is a jealous God and will not share his throne. He does not endorse any other way except that which Jesus performed and accomplished on the cross at Calvary as means to his throne.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Truth is the beginning of every good thing - both Heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the partaker of the truth. We know that from the scriptures that there is one truth in which all truth exists and this is Jesus Christ. Christianity is not just intellectually credible; whether considered philosophically, historically, scientifically, ethically, or culturally, but from an evidential perspective it is actually superior to other worldviews - secular or religious. Truth is Christianity’s most enduring asset!
In our pluralistic and pagan culture, almost anyone is a viable target for conversion to a wide variety of false beliefs, from various cults and New Age occultism to solipsism and nihilism. This is an increasingly poisonous age in which we live. We must remember certain things about Jesus if we are to remain true to him. Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all. William E. Biederwolf was quoted as saying “A man who can read the New Testament and not see that Christ claims to be more than a man, can look all over the sky at high noon on a cloudless day and not see the sun.”
Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God, the beginning and first born of the dead (Colossians 1:15-18). Christ is the all in all. Mohammed only claimed to be a prophet of God, but Jesus claimed to be God. Mohammed claimed he was sinful, but Jesus claimed he was sinless. The Koran the Muslim prophet Mohammed states “Muhammad is naught but a messenger” and “surely I am no more than a human apostle.” Jesus claimed to be the message!
Consider the Buddha who merely claimed to be an “enlightened man.” He never claimed to be the Son of God.
Zoroaster, who said, “I have become perplexed in my search. In the darkness I find no way. Devoted to pride, I weep in sorrow. How shall deliverance be obtained?”
Lao-tze and Guru Nanak both confessed their ignorance and humanity.
I could go on and on about the falsity of all other religions, but that would be the length of a book. John 17:3 “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” Psalm 35:10 “My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, O Lord?”
Indubitably true is the fact that the God of Christianity is the one true God. This is why Bride goes out to the world, to bring the message “so that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is no other” (1 Kings 8:60 See Isaiah 41:20-29). Since God does not lie, (Titus 1:2) we ought to conclude that He and He alone requires our 100.”
I am reading a book right now on Muslims, called simply: Islam: Faith & History. I’m finding it quite fascinating. I never knew how many parellels there were with Christianity. Of course, they deny Jesus’ divinity, relegating him to a great prophet, which is obviously the main difference. But I urge all Christians to look into Islam. It’s something that, especially during this day and age, we all need to have a better understanding of.
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The Left Behind series is one of greatest media phenomenon’s in years. The Christian book series that probably all of book-dome didn’t give a crap about and thought would come & go without much more than a whisper. Boy were they dead wrong, eh. The series would explode by word of mouth and Christian church-goer support, eventually selling over 100 million copies to become the fastest selling FICTION series ever! Take note that that does not say “Christian” fiction. Nope, just fiction. And there’s that key word. EVER. Nearly every book in the series has debuted at #1 on numerous best seller lists, and they have gone on to form an entire company (including a game one) based on the universe of the book, even as the authors have moved on to start other series not related to Left Behind. Of course, they are still writing Left Behind-related books. Whether it’s the Kids series, the prequels, the epilogue or other things. Here is an interview with Jerry Jenkins about the series and the rapture and more. Enjoy. 
