The Da Vinci Con
Dan Brown's 2003 best-seller, The
Da Vinci Code, makes some outrageous historical claims about Jesus Christ
and the Catholic Church. Despite being a work of fiction, the author presents these
claims as historical fact, for he asserts on the first page of his book that, "All descriptions of artwork,
architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are
accurate." In fact, almost nothing Brown claims about art,
history, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the Bible, secret documents or the Catholic
Church is either true or accurate, nor even very well thought-out.
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Story of The Da Vinci Code:
Brown’s alleged historical facts (and the truth
behind the fiction):
- Jesus was not divine, but an exclusively
human, mortal prophet.
- Jesus was not considered divine by his
first followers.
- Jesus married Mary Magdalene and together
they had a daughter.
- Mary is the Holy Grail, which is really a
corruption of a phrase which means ‘royal blood.’
- The belief that Jesus was divine was
invented by a pagan Roman emperor at the Council of Nicaea in AD
325.
- The Bible which supports this belief was
rewritten by Constantine after Nicaea.
- There are Secret Gospels,
more ancient than
the Bible, which tell a different story.
- The Vatican, i.e. the Roman Catholic
Church, knows this truth and will stop at nothing, including murder, to
keep the truth from getting out.
- A secret society, the Priory of Sion, was
founded in 1099, has kept the proof of this truth secret for at least 900
years.
- Leonardo da Vinci, as a head of the Priory
of Sion, knew the truth about Mary Magdalene and left clues of this truth
in his Last Supper.
Other Historical Claims
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Jehovah
- Founding of Paris
- Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Content of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Walt Disney
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Pages in order
- Story of The Da Vinci Code: Murder Mystery
- Story of The Da Vinci Code: Historical Secret
- Leonardo’s Last Supper
- Derivation of 'Holy
Grail'
- Mary Magdalene in the Bible
- Priory of Sion
- Questions of Jesus’s True Identity
- Non-Christian Sources
- Christian Sources: Biblical Texts
- Other Apostolic Texts sometimes considered
inspired
- St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch – AD 110
- "Alternate" Gospels: Gospel of Peter
(c. AD 130)
- St. Justin, Martyr – AD 151
- St. Irenaeus of Lyon – AD189
- "Alternate" Christianities: Marcion
(c. AD 140), Valentinus (gnostic) (AD 136 – 165), Gnosticism (AD 100-150)
- Gnostic Scriptures:Gospel of Truth (AD
140-180), Gospel of Thomas (AD 140), Coptic Apocalypse of Peter (c. AD 200)
- The ‘Muratorian’ Canon: list of acceptable
texts for church in Rome – c. AD 200
- Constantine
- Council of Nicaea - AD 325
- St. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea (c. AD 330) –
In his History of the Church, lists Four Categories of Texts
- Constantine’s Bibles –
AD
331
- Codex Sinaiticus: Oldest surviving manuscript of the New
Testament (from 4th c.)
- Closing the Canon
- Philosophical Issues: Diversity of Christianities
- Philosophical Issues: Subjectivism of Belief
- Theological Issue: Was Jesus married?
- Other Historical Claims
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Books,
articles and websites exposing the eggregious historical errors
contained in Mr. Brown's book, including information about Opus Dei.