How much truth is in The Da Vinci Code Movie?

Question

I am Hindu so not very familiar with Christian Past.
How much truth there is in The Da Vinci Code Movie (If any)?

OK - I should had been more clear.
How much truth there is on the part about the Royal Blood.
Is there a blood line from Jesus himself that is alive today, as stated in the Movie?
Please don't give me rude answer, I am just qurious and if you can't answer don't bother with rude remarks.

Answer 1

Hello talwar007.. :)

Most of the Countries, towns and cities are real..but even the History Channel has proved that Dan Brown's book was a book of fiction, not fact.. :(

http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=203454&action=detail

Dan Brown is real and lives in Exeter, New Hampshire my home town.. :)

Merry Christmas.. To All..
With Love..In Christ.. :)


ADDITIONAL: No there is No Royal blood line..the History Channel checked into it..and did a DNA sample of a Queen that was supposed to have been a decendent and she had No Hebrew decendants..

Answer 2

People will go to see it simply because of the opposition to it. If it is true that the papacy is publicly against it, they are making a huge mistake. It is part of human nature to be curious about things that are 'forbidden'. I have read the book and enjoyed it. It was very interesting to think someone could be leaving clues to dark secrets through artwork. And it is quite possible that Jesus did have a wife. The church would want that taken out of the Bible because it would show that Jesus had sex and was, therefore, 'impure'. If Jesus was impure it would mean that the religion was built on a lie. If people feel that it will change their beliefs (and they don't want that to happen), they shouldn't see it. If they can watch it without that happening, they should. It's a very good book. I hope the movie is just as good. I honestly think people are wasting their time protesting it or being offended by it. If it personally offends you, that's fine. But don't expect EVERYONE to feel the same way. Besides all of that, most people don't even know what the book says about Christianity. I have heard people say that it alleges that Jesus was gay. That is in no way what is said in the book. Also, people keep saying that the Bible is truth and that the book/movie is a lie. The honest truth is that no one on this earth knows exactly what THE truth is. The truth to you, is not the truth to me. It is all relative to an individuals perception. Example: Two people bumb into eachother on the street. Both think the other person bumped them and not the other way around. Both are right and both are wrong. People should remember that truth to them is not necessarily truth to someone else.

Answer 3

"As a regular contributor to various online fora on history, I soon began to see the impact this novel was having on peoples' perceptions of history. I saw people making claims about the Gnostic gospels, early Christianity, the Emperor Constantine, the Knights Templar and Jesus which were not supprted by the historical evidence but came directly from their reading of this novel. Eventually I got tired of repeating myself in countering these claims and decided that an online resource comparing the assertions in the novel to the evidence could be a useful project."

Answer 4

Very, very little. Read the book by Lee Stroble "Exploring the DaVinci Code" is the title, I believe. Do your own research, and you'll find most of the "facts" in the book are not true. Example A: The Priory of Sion, the group that held the "secret" for centuries, never existed. A man invented it along with falsified documents in the '50's, and stood trial for it in the '60's. There are so many historical errors in the novel, that's why books have been written about it.

Answer 5

The Da Vinci Code was made by Satan to confuse peoples minds. Jesus did not have a woman.

Answer 6

Precious little. Most of the holy blood, holy grail mythos is based on spurious conjecture and linguistic equivocation (sangreal = "sang real" instead of the traditional "san greal" etc.)

It's an amusing conspiracy theory, but there's little hard evidence to support it, and certainly not in the form that it appears in the Dan Brown novel.

Answer 7

If you seek knowledge of a particular belief--then please choose to look at the materials on which the faith is based--not the media or the Hollywood interpretation of that faith. How often do you see a movie that is true to your Hindu faith??
Want the facts--read the book!

A few facts: The Mona Lisa is a painting, France is a country, people do turn up dead in the most interesting places.

Answer 8

We actually don't know much at all about Jesus, including whether he existed or not. So, any story written about him is probably just as unreliable as any other. The Gospels were written decades after he died and they conflict with Paul's writings, which were written earlier, but still decades after Jesus supposedly died.

The only truth in the Da Vinci Code that's probable is that if he existed, he was just a man and probably did things that most men do.

Answer 9

About 0 percent truth as it pertains to the Christian view of the truth of the Bible. All the accounts in the book are speculated, and have no truth behind their claims. That's why the book is in the fiction section.

Answer 10

There is as much truth in it as there there is in the Bible. It's really all just speculation and putting pieces together to make a story. Just like the actual story of Jesus. It is based on actual evidence. The places were real. The quotes from the religious texts were real. The grave was fake.