The DaVince Code?

Question

is what they say in the book true??? Ive have questioned my fatih form befor reading this book and now that im half way through its really makeing me think.. did u have the same experince after reading the book???

Answer 1

Nope. I didn't believe in talking spiders after reading Charlotte's Web either....

Answer 2

Dan Brown himself has repeated said IT IS FICTION. He made up the story. He also presents many inaccuracies in the book as if they are fact. (Spoiler: Note who is giving all the "facts" about the Bible being altered, etc., and then compare that with who the villian is in the book.)

According to Brown, the dead sea scrolls where found in the 1950. Fact: the first public exploration of the caves were the scrolls were found was in the fall 1947. Scrolls had been appearing for 7-9 years before.

According to Brown, the dead sea scrolls contained 80 alternatives gospel of Jesus. Fact: the dead sea scrolls were complied by Jews, not Christians, 100 to 150 years before the birth of Christ. This is not a single "Christian" manuscript in the bunch.

According to Brown, the council of Nicene rewrote the New Testament in 325 AD. Fact: over 2,300 manuscripts of the New Testament are in existance from before the council. Many dating as far back as 200 years before the council. Yet they agree word for word with the manuscripts after the council. Many of these manuscripts were in Christian communities that had no relationship with the Catholic church (such as the Copts in Egypt, the Bryzantine church in Asia, the Armenian Christians, etc.) Many of the oldest manuscripts were already buried and forgotten long before the council meet. So it is absolutely impossible for them to have altered the manuscripts.

Besides the actual NT manuscripts, we have letters, journals, commentaries, inscriptions, prayer books that quote the NT, etc that PREDATE the council. Using nothing but these, it is possbile to reconstruct all by 11 of the nearly 8,000 verses of the NT. If someone "altered" the NT, then they had to have also altered these hundreds of quotes, journals, inscriptions on catacomb walls, prayer books, etc. scattered across three continents and beyond the "known world" of that time.

DiVinci: Dan Brown claims that the person to the right of Jesus with the long hair and no beard is Mary Magalene. If that is true, where is John? If that is Mary, then you only have 11 disciples in the picture, not 12. Leonardo is a person short. Tradition says that John was the last of the disciples to die, having lived into the second century. So it is assumed that at the time of Jesus' ministry he would have been young. Probably a late teenager. So he is normally pictured with long hair and no beard - just like Leonardo painted him.

I could continue, but hopefully you are getting point. While the DiVinci Code was an interesting read, it is just fiction. And should be treated that way when you read it.

Answer 3

i loved the book and knew of some of the issues raised before i read it .. so i already questioned things
its a clever book with some little facts thrown in here and there
but i would suggest that you do a search on those facts to make up your own mind .. no one else should tell you one way or the other
i really dont understand the whole debate about it
if the book isnt true then we are still left in doubt about the authenticity of the life of jesus
if the book is true then it gives us a little more evidence of the man ... all be it in a different portrayal

Answer 4

No, no crisis of faith because of the book. It did make me reflect on the roles of women in the Christians church through out the centuries - documented and undocumented - and the idea of "feminine spirituality."

The book is based on some truths, a LOT of conjecture, a dash of poor scholarship, and some pretty big leaps of logic. It's good that it is making you think. If you want to research it some more, find books written by reputable scholars - historians and theologians.

Answer 5

I think it is a very good work of fiction but no I do not believe it. When you are done with that one, you need to read one or two of the ones that dispute it as well to give you a little more to go by.

Answer 6

You have to understand that the book is fictional. There are seeds (and I mean very, very small seeds) of truth in it, but Dan Brown takes those seeds, blows them up into huge fictional plants and tries to sell them off as truth. The DaVinci Code is a wonderful read and a great story -- but that's all it is -- A STORY. Don't fall for it.

Answer 7

Dan Brown is a Christian himself, so no, it isn't necessarily true, but it cannot be thought of as a total lie either. It was just meant to get people to think about some of the problems and holes in their religion, not completely shatter it.

Answer 8

Yes, I did and it strengthened my faith. But you have to remember that it is a book of FICTION! Even the "fact" page at the beginning is barely true. He has taken the tiniest bits of fact and stretched them into some of the most outrageous lies ever told!! A good fiction read? Yes, but don't read any truth in to it!

Answer 9

No, the DaVinci Code is nothing but fiction. The original starters of this secret sect that supposedly contained Leonardo DaVinci admitted many years ago that they made the whole thing up.

Answer 10

sometimes and if they make me think to much i just find a different book to read cause then it really gets boring cause then if you are rite when you are thinking after you will know what is going to happen so you just wiz though it like a hot butter knife cutting though butter

Answer 11

You find it under fiction in the book store and in the public library. Even the author says it's fiction.