Has anyone read the da vinci code? If yes, what did you think? Did you understand it? What is it saying to you

Question

If you have not read it, why not? Do you understand why it is making such an uproar in Church? What do you belive as truth and as fiction?

Answer 1

Amanda, I read the book, and enjoy parts of it. I didn't like the ending. Parts of it I believe are true or could possibly be true. Why couldn't Jesus have been married? He sent down to the earth in a man imagine, what's to say he didn't marry. Whether he had a child is something else. I am not sure. God I believe is happy though with the book, why? Because it got people to talking about him, discussing his word and his ways. Whether we believe the book is truth or fiction, it's done something great. People are talking about regilion. Even the ones, who unfortunately don't believe in Jesus, are discussing the possiblities. Churchs and the different regilions were made by man, so it stands to reason, that some men, who thought they knew what was good for his "flock" may have intentionally left out the more human side of Jesus. Jesus was human. There is always going to be questions on this subject, and I appreciate that you brought the subject up. Whether we are right or wrong, it makes a good discussion. One day, when in heaven we will know the answers........God bless us all..............

Answer 2

I read it. It was OK. Better than some and not as good as others.
By far guiltier of twisting the truth than Dan Brown, I found the response of the catholic church comical.
Dan Brown never claimed his book to be anything other than a work of fiction. Basically, what he did say, was he wrote a work of fiction, but based on information he obtained from known, accredited researchers.
Scholars on who's combined knowledge is the basis of their accounting of the rise and history of Christianity as we know it today.
He did, in his book, list the sources of information.
If there was a question as to the factual validity of the information he used, question the source of it. They did the reasearch and have the answers.
Not the writer of a, made perfectly clear, book sold as fiction,
As to why the church is such an uproar, that's simple,..
Read the book carefully,
It is an undeniably a work of fiction and has never been advertised differently.
And, although it has an interesting story line with absolutely no claim to truth, a lot of the information referred too is based on research that could, might be or even is, in fact, true.
It's all well documented information, all intensely criticized and all rarely read by an interested public.
But, it kinda tells it all.
That, in fact, is why the church is in such an uproar.

Answer 3

Read the book and loved the book. Very good piece of fiction.

Do I think over the years the Catholic Church downplayed the role of Mary Magdalene? Yes, unfortunately. Christ chose to appear to the women first after the resurrection. He did not teach a gospel of codependency that many would wish we believe.

Do I think Christ was married? I think it is very likely He was married and it could have been Mary Magdalene. I think marriage would have been more normal than a life of celibacy. He was the Christ and could have fulfilled his mission and had a wife as well. I think sometimes we want to think if He had a wife that it would have been a distraction to his ministry and that is putting Him even more on our level than to think He could have married. We have no proof one way or the other, so it is a interesting conversation piece but nothing more.

Do I think a possible marriage of Christ produced children? Probably not since I don't think it would have been so easy to keep the evidence of his personal life quiet among his followers. I think as Christianity become more acceptable some believers would try to elevate the children socially and that would not have been appropriate. They would have probably been made Pope or intermarry into Roman leadership if there was a lineage to follow.

Honestly, the book was enjoyable. If it helps one person to search out the historical facts for themselves, it has accomplished a lot.

PS . . . why the uproar in the Churches? It is thinking outside of the box and that always makes things uncomfortable.

Answer 4

Yes, I read the Da Vinci code, twice as a matter of fact. I also visited Paris and the Louvre, and churches in the book.

I think the theory of Mary Magdalene not being a "whore" is what is the uproar. I remember as a young Catholic child, even my mother thought that Mary Magdalene was not what they said she was. I never liked the extreme patriarchy of the Church anyway. I wonder what other stories the Catholic church has created and recreated along the way to make men more powerful and women more weak.

I can't say what is truth and what is fiction. It is simply what you believe. I think the book opened a lot of good dialogue.

Answer 5

I have read it and it's a good FICTION book it's listed as a Best Selling FICTION book and for some reason people forget that and take it as truth. The author never claimed that this is a book of truth, if people remember that they will probably actually enjoy this book very much. I'm a firm believer in Christ and feel that this shouldn't have caused as much of a debate as it has. If we took every fiction book as truth we would be in serious trouble.

Answer 6

Yes.

Pretty good book, but not Brown's best, imo.

Yes i understood it.

It wasn't saying anything; it is fiction. It is making an uproar in church because theists KNOW how empty their own beliefs are. If their beliefs had any substance to them they wouldn't be so scared that an obvious work of fiction would be such a threat.

Answer 7

It's not very flattering to any traditional church or to conservative Catholics. It also probably got a lot of people running to study history, which I think is a great thing. But it's just fiction based on legends and ideas.

I also don't see how a person who is secure in their faith and feels armed with the truth can be afraid to read a book, and how a person who hasn't read a book feels qualified to comment on it.

Answer 8

IT IS FAKE!!!!! people r just making a BIG DEAL out of nothing. and the reason the church is getting mad is because it is saying that Mary Madgdeline and Jesus Christ got married and had children. Now we dont know if thats true but the church thinks its not. it could or could not be true. Anyways Iliked both the movie and the book

Answer 9

its AMAZING!! my favorite book. its fiction so dont make the mistake of believing them. i went around saying crap like "jesus has a brother!!" or something & then i saw that it was fiction lol. i mostly understood it. there are some parts of the book where religion is discussed very thoroughly (but its still not completely true dont forget) & it got so in-depth that i forgot what was going on but the storyline is easy to follow. its great man im gonna read it again in a year or so probably

Answer 10

The Da Vinci code is talking about the Gnostics. Is you have seen the movie “Stigmata” that is based on the Gospel of Thomas, which is a Gnostic text. The Gnostics have a very different point of view. You can find the “Nag Hammadi Library”, which is like a Gnostic bible, on line.