is anything in the da vinci code based on facts?

Question

like the whole story they give about the "holy grail" and the priory of sion, and da vinici painting a woman in "the last supper" but it was just covered up by other painters.. i'm reading the book right now, and i was just wondering how much of it was true or if it was all fiction

Answer 1

Dan Brown has done research on his own into the matter, of course, and I don't know if he believes it himself, but it is easily basis to write a book. Most likely everything in this book was taken from that. But research can be wrong, of course. You cannot truly say he is lying because of the two factors that;one, he has the benefit of the doubt that, again, his research was wrong;two, the legal boilerplate that any place, person, concept, etc. is entirely coincidental. Also, "the views expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect those of the author".

The Bible is, in fact, made up of books selected from many, though not from a pool of more than eighty, as Teabing said. Also, the vote finalizing it was not close at all. In fact, in was almost unanimous.

It is true that there is a Priory of Sion. There is a real Opus Dei. You might even see members speaking about their society on History Channel. There was a Council of Nicene, where the Nicene Creed takes its name from.

"I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all things seen and unseen.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God..."

Not all the descriptions are accurate, either. The Louvre does not have 666 panes of glass as shown by the Code. It actually has 663. But 666 is so much more theatric, don't you think? And this is, above all, a book.

Also, the Amon L'Isa part. The name Mona Lisa was not actually devised by Leonardo. It was made later, meaning Da Vinci didn't try to stick his tricks into it.

Some of the sacred feminine material is wrong, such as saying that the Olympics were a tribute to Venus. They were a tribute to Zeus.

I don't want to offend anyone in saying this, because I call myself a Christian as well, but anyone can use science or their own religion to argue against religion, and religion shuts it down with faith. That's perfectly good and that's how it (hopefully) always will be. Then people can take the Gnostic Gospels and so forth and say
"Look, you're wrong. I've found this paper that says so." It's not hard to pop back, "That directly contradicts the Bible, so you're wrong."
The Bible WILL win, because it is much bigger. One of the significant quotes to me was, "What is history but a fable everyone agrees on?"

If a document describes Jesus as being a bachelor, and another as being married, which do you believe? Suppose the current circumstances were switched... Then you would believe Jesus was married, because most people thought so. Well, maybe everybody is deceived. Don't argue fictions against in each other. Believe in what you think is right.

The research may or may not be true, as with everything. It's all a search for proof. Your own Grail quest.

Answer 2

There is some fact in DaVinci, but most of it is fiction. Here are some examples:

Brown says that Constantine decided what books to put in the Bible at the council of Nicea. That was not discussed at that council, and the inclusion of the 4 gospels was never debated, other books were but not those.

There are Gnostic Gospels, but they were not found with the Dead Sea Scrolls. All of the Biblical texts found in the Dead Sea Scrolls are O.T. texts. The Gnostic Gospels were found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, and were not scrolls, but codices (plural of codex - an early form of a book)

He writes that the Gnostic Gospels portray Christ as being just a man. That is not true. Gnostics believed that the material world is evil, and therefore God would never contaminate himself by becoming human. Gnostics have what is known as a docetic Christology - which means Christ only appeared to be human, and was actually spirit.

As for the Priory of Sion, the person who "found" the Dossier Secret (French for Secret Document) that details the history has admitted in court that he planted the document, it is a fake.

Its a great book, and I enjoyed the movie. But it is not an accurate representation of history. If you have any more questions, feel free to send me a private message.

Answer 3

Absolutely. The only thing fictional in "The Da Vinci Code" is the characters and the action that takes place. All of the locations, the paintings, the ancient history, the secret documents, the rituals, all of this is factual.1

The secretive Catholic group Opus Dei, which is featured in the book and which Dan Brown claims to be more than fiction, tried to get Sony to leave it out of the movie. Efforts at persuasion failed, but Opus Dei is trying to put its best face forward, which is something of a departure for a group that shunned attention so much that members were discouraged from publicly announcing their affiliation. The group is launching its own media campaign of sorts; it is changing its website, encouraging some members to speak out and promoting a blog by one of its priests in Rome.2


The catholic church acts as though it has nothing to hide.It has been hiding things from day one.Those who pretend it doesn't are living in a fantasy world.The priest sex with children scam should be enough to wake people up.If these old perverted men you call father and pope actually believe what they expect you to believe they wouldn't do the things they do like rape and molest small children physically,mentally and emotionally.Jesus was a man and yes he had sex and children and a wife.Yes he was a very smart man who spoke out against the crooked religion of his day and it is time we speak out about ours.There are a lot of facts in The Da Vinci Code the main one being Jesus was and is just a man.The crooks made him a God to control and rob the masses.The truth is being revealed slowly but it is coming out.The woman in the last supper is Mary Magdalene.She is also the beloved disciple Jesus spoke of she is the Apostle John.3

Answer 4

The most important thing anyone can tell you is this: Asking religious questions can only have an opinionated answer. You and only you may answer this question. It all depends on what you believe. People can tell you directly what to believe but don't believe it because someone else does. Truthfully there is a gospel of Mary Magdalene and one of Paul. However we do not know if they were actually written by those people or impostors. Catholics are supposed to believe what the Church tells them to believe. We believe in Luke's, Mark's, Matthew's, and John's gospels. We believe this simply because the Church tells us to. Some believe that those specific gospels were only picked because those four all tell a similar story. I would advise you to finish the book but do not believe any of it. Except that Jesus did die and all the things religion class has taught you. And also if you go to church. Due to the fact that no one alive now saw Jesus when he was a real person, we cannot be sure that he didn't have children or a wife. Since Jesus was a man not a spirit he could have had children. It all depends on what you want to believe.

Answer 5

The da vinci code is a fictional piece of work based on of all things another novel that came out in late 70's early 80's called "Holy Blood Holy Grail". The authors of that book later admitted to the fabrication of that book. Their names were Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln.

Answer 6

Try the book-Holy Blood Holy Grail- the Da Vinci code is mere fiction based on a collection of myths and not based on fact sufficientlyto give it creedence

Answer 7

The Da Vinci code is just a novel and was made into a movie. The characters are real individuals, but what they did is not real. Jesus never married Mary Magdalene. He never had any children. He never moved to the area where France is. He never went any further than 200 miles from His birthplace.

The Da Vinci code made a lot of money for Ron Howard and other people and that is just what it is. It is entertainment and a way for the movie industry to make a top selling movie.

Answer 8

There are bits of fact within the fiction. Most of it is historically inaccurate. Such as the Gnostic Gospels protraying Jesus as more human than the Biblical gospels. This is false, because the Gnostic Gospels protray him as more divine than the Biblical gospels. Jesus was considered divine far before the book says he was. A good book is "Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code," it is from a historian's perspective who specializes in the historical facts of Jesus's life.

Another fact is that the Gospels mention other apostle's wives, and why not in one Gospel gnostic or not does it not mention Jesus's wife? They would have plenty of chances to do so.

The debate over which Gospels to include in the Bible was going on long before Constantine's time. It is incorrect that Constantine converted on his deathbed. He converted before a battle because he saw a symbol in his dream which turned out to be the cross of Christianity. It is true, however, that he still retained some pagan worship after becoming Christian.

Answer 9

It's fiction, though the truths are intermingled. There is of course a holy grail (and it's not a female decendant of Jesus Christ), there is the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templer. You have to research things for yourself and don't believe half of what people write and a third of what they say.

Answer 10

Oh no, no. It's not all fiction. Jesus really did exist. But everything that says he didn't die on the cross or go on to become the Messiah or the Savior of the world isn't really. So the people are real, but pretty much everything else is just fiction. Oh heck, we might as well just say that the book is a REALLY good story about something that never happened.