Tonight I finished Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Overall it was a fun read. Tonight, by sheer coincidence I was reading Tuesday NY Times online and I found an article titled, “Defenders of Christianity Rebut ‘The Da Vinci Code.” Apparently a large number of Christian are concerned about the doctrinal implications of the book. For example, the article says that:

The Rev. James L. Garlow, co-author with Prof. Peter Jones of “Cracking Da Vinci’s Code” and pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, said: “I don’t think it’s just an innocent novel with a fascinating plot. I think it’s out there to win people over to an incorrect and historically inaccurate view, and it’s succeeding. People are buying into the notion that Jesus is not divine, he is not the son of God.”

This is a point that I must diverge from other Christians. Even if we assume that the Da Vinci Code were true (which it isn’t) where are the implications that Jesus was not divine? The Da Vinci Code argues that Jesus was married and had children. This there something non-divine about marriage or having children? Is marriage condenmed in the Bible?