What part(s) of the Davinchi Code is fact, and which is false?

Question

I got caught in the fever, could it be true?

Answer 1

FACT: "The Davinci Code" is a fictional novel.

FICTION: Everything else about "The Davinci Code.'

For a fair and balanced look, go to www.khouse.org and search using "davinci code." There's an insightful series of articles posted here. (For some reason the complete link to the first article wouldn't reproduce fully here.) There are many, many more available on the internet.

Love and peace in Jesus.

Answer 2

Well, most of the ideas in the fictional work, "The Davinci Code" that people are taking as fact comes from an actual non-fiction novel entitled, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" with the addition of mystery codes in Davinci's paintings.

"Holy Blood, Holy Grail" talks about what some believe to be the hidden life of Jesus where he was married, had children, and produced a bloodline that has been kept secret for many generations.

The book links this all together with a group called the "Priory of Scion." If this group does not exist then the whole theory just falls apart.

The "Priory of Scion" is a real group. However, this group was formed less than 100 years ago. The founder of the group later admitted to fraudulently forging documents and placing them into the hall of records. These fraudulent documents made the "Priory of Scion" look as though they were a group that had been around alot longer than they actually were.

One of the other biggest items of evidence for the ideas layed out in the movie is the painting "The Last Supper" by Davinci. In the painting it shows John laying his head on the bosom of Jesus (which is actually in scripture Joh 13:23 & Joh 13:25).
"The Da Vinci Code" would have us believe that that is not really John but Mary Magdalene and that she was Jesus' wife. They say this because the person on Jesus' chest looks feminine. However, it was common for Davinci to draw youth as being highly femine when drawing men. Also we can't forget the fact that in the telling of the last supper (which the painting is about) John is described as laying his head on the chest of Jesus!

So, with all the major evidence falling through (and no the greek translation does not suggest Jesus was married) it is highly improbable that the ideas layed out in that book are true.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

The Da Vinci Code is a artwork of fiction, albeit a number of this is aspects attracts upon specific speculations and theories. while analyzing this way of artwork, one ought to by no ability deem the theories as absolute fact respectively absolute nonsense formerly greater examine has been undertaken. in any different case one may be showing one's very own lack of know-how. The greater you study and learn a pair of count, the greater substance you will very own to make a merely determination of in spite of if some thing is actual or not. The irony of existence nonetheless, is that the greater you recognize, the less specific you're able to be.

Answer 4

Here's one example of fiction:

In the book, Teabing says for the first 300 years after Christ's death, the church never claimed Jesus was God. Not until the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, when about 300 bishops voted to make Jesus God. And, Teabing says, "it was a close vote at that." Only after that meeting did the church graft on the idea that Christ was actually God.

Truth: the Council of Nicea was convened to discuss the nature of Christ's "Godness", not to concoct a new theology. A heresy had surfaced that God the Father 'made' God the Son, that he had a beginning, while the rest of the Trinity was eternal with no beginning. The Council gathered to put the nature of Christ into words. Here's what they wrote in part...

"We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father;
through him all things were made."

They were there to verify the essence of Christ as identical to the essence of God, rather than the 50% God - 50% Man theory.

And the vote was not close as the Teabing character claimed. Only 3 dissented out of more than 300. The idea that Christ's divinity was narrowly-argued new concept three centuries after Christ's death is pure fiction.

Answer 5

The Davinchi Code is full of crap. Nothing in it is true. He's just bashing everyone and becuase this stupid country is so caught up in freedom of speech and being politically correct noone is doing anything about it. It enfuriates me!

Answer 6

none of it can really be touted as FACT, but the same can be said about the bible...

Everything in the book has been in debate for hundreds of years...really since the time of Jesus...

the bible WAS compiled, and the books chosen by mortals, da vinci WAS rumored to be in a secret society...

Da vinci DID believe in the true Mary Magdalene...

more gospels WERE discovered but, shunned by the catholic church...

Dan Brown didn't come up with anything but the story....everything else came from well-known theories....

christian stories ARE similar to religion stories before (the egyptians for the most part...death and rebirth, virgin and child and actually, on and on and on...)

the only thing that can be really disputed is the existence of the Priory of Sion...

Someone came forth in the 50s saying he started the hoax, and while he did make up alot of the documents, he didn't come up with the idea or the name...

there are other organizations believed to exist for the same reason...whether one and the same or branches of the same, they have existed...illuminati, knights templar, freemasons...etc...

there IS a lot of truth in the book. All dan brown did was take common theories and put them in a story...he made NONE of it up except for the plot...whether its facts or not, it can't be proven...

like i said, its hard to prove one side right over the other....

but which one makes more sense?

i say, learn about both...and make your own decisions...

i can't think of anything else in the book to verify or debunk, but if you have more specific questions, click on my name and leave a message on any of my questions or put your e-mail on these additional details...

I did a lot of research on this, before AND after the book came out...and i realized that research now is harder than ever because searching through the hits on search engines theres's FAR too many antida vinci sites by ignorant christians who refuse to even LOOK at the other side...

but ask yourself this:

If Jesus did have a girlfriend, does that make his message any less valid?

Answer 7

This part certainly came from actual scriptures:

"He used to kiss her often on the mouth." [gospel of Philip]

So, according to that scripture and others Jesus was the Magdalene's lover. You know why I think it's true? Because those scriptures were banned and anyone caught reading them was killed (this is fact, it's history). So, this does not prove it's true, but it proves that the people who made (enforced) Christianity/Bible were not "inspired", they were intellectually dishonest primitives. Yet the christian groups who wrote those banned books never hurt anyone, there is no evidence whatsoever of them forcing or hurting anyone. So I take it from there.

Answer 8

It was a good book, a fine work of fiction, that is all. By the way. Brown's description of "Madonna of the Rocks", makes me wonder if he hasn't been hanging out with Stephen King. That painting is in no way shape or form dark or twisted.

Answer 9

Like most good works of fiction it interweaves a lot of historic facts in with a entertaining fictional plot. Most of questions asked about christianity and jesus are nothing new and have been ponder for many many years.

Answer 10

Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. After that, the facts stop.