Anyone open minded enough to consider truth in the Da Vinci Code?

Question

...and if so, would it change the way you view Jesus?
Please, bible thumpers need not reply.

Answer 1

If Jesus had a child, or children for that matter, it would destroy the church, showing Jesus to infact be human afterall.

Da Vinci was a genius. He/she was a member of a secret school. Why else would he/she be famous for the art, engineering and symbols.(how did all the great music composers of early times know about hemi-sync. The reason this music makes you more intellegent....The brainwaves emitted from your brain will mimic the music.) The schools of ancient wisdom knew things we are just now proving correct with technology. Don't close off that mind on this subject. Why was the ancient architecture so much more spectacular than ours today.
It didn't change the way I thought of Jesus because I already suspected it. It did help in the confirmation of what I thought. Reading the bible as a young child I was convinced that Jesus was trying to wake the people up. He didn't want to be worshiped, he wanted to teach the people how to become as he was.....A CHRIST. I also believe he was married, for lack of a better description, to Mary. In those days you didn't hang all over a man unless you were his and he was yours. I find it hard to believe that Jesus wouldn't have felt joy from kids of his own weather he ascended or not. A child is a gift to the world and also a gift to the entity that enters the child at insemination. To give another entity a chance at being human is a great gift. All Entities know what they are getting themselves into when they incarnate. They know they will have no memories of the non-physical, because the human brain is born....blank, only with the programming of the DNA to help it. It is the Entities job to overcome enormous odds in our current physical world, to come to the realization that they are more than their bodies. It wasn't always so difficult and will become more fined tuned very soon. Hope this sheds some light or at least inspires some creative pondering.

Answer 2

Certainly. Dan Brown made the book intersting because he built his cheap James Bond type of a story around the birth of the christian church. The church was established by a vote, and the bible compiled to suit those in power. However, if Dan Brown wanted to follow the storyline of the genuine legacy of Christ, he would have had to go to the Cathars, who were the true holders of the Holy Grail in terms of it being the true teachings of Christ. Nothing to do with sex. If Christ married Marie Magdalene and had a child with her, what would that change on the worth of his legacy? After all, he was in a human body.

Dan Brown's book is a mish-mash of a little truth, misunderstood and misconstrued history of the Holy Grail, and an utterly disgusting focus on female genitals which he by some twist of his fantasy connected with the Holy Grail. It started as an interesting book and ended in a complete throw-away anticlimax.

However, some of the observations regarding the work of Leonardo Da Vinci were quite smart, like the appearnce of Mona Lisa and the origins of her name, and the significance of the Last Supper.

Answer 3

There are books of history and there are historical novels. The DaVinci code is not even a historical novel.
The Dead Sea Scrolls do not mention Jesus, Mary Magdalene or Christianity.
Dan Brown took his "implications" from the Gnostic gospels. Gnostics believe things of the flesh were evil including sexual relations and procreation. It is funny that they would have seen Jesus as a savior but believed he was married and had a child.
Gnostics believed that there was a God of good and a God of evil The God of good created the spiritual world and the God of evil created the material world and the flesh.
Josh Bernstein of the history channel obtained a bone specimen of a person who would have been a descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene if Dan Brown's novel was true. He had DNA test done. It showed no Middle Eastern DNA, only European DNA.
The last "documentary" about the tomb found with the ossuaries bearing names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (in Hebrew) has been debunked not only by Christian scholars but by Israeli scholars.
Mary, Joseph, Jesus were not uncommon names.

Answer 4

I'm an atheist and I can see the da Vinci code for what it is - a work of fiction based on loosely-collected half truths and made up documents.

There are credible arguments for some of the issues Dan Brown raises but his book is not one of them, if anything it weakens the argument in the eyes of the general public.

Answer 5

What truth? You mean the truth that in 1956 Gerard de Sede and Plantard made up the Priory of Scion (the secret society that supposedly kept the "secret" for hundreds of years)? That truth? Or how about any of the other easily debunked "truths" in the book. I like fiction just as well as anyone, and am an avid reader, but to pretend that the Da Vinci Code is anything other than badly written fiction, is just ludicrous.

Answer 6

I don't have a problem with much of what is said in Da Vinci Code. Some of it is bogus, though. I believe that Jesus was Divine. However, I don't have any problem with the idea that he was married to Mary Magdalene. I don't feel that that would impede him from being divine at all. Whether he has a family line that is still alive today, I don't know.

Answer 7

It is fiction, but mixed with some truth. Dan Brown did a masterful job of working the two together. It familiarised me with sacred sex. In so doing cleared up a few questions about past spiritual experiences I have had that formally puzzles me.

Answer 8

Historically speaking that book gets every fact WRONG.

example, the Council of Nicea, "where Jesus' Divinity was decided by a very close margin" was infact settled by a vote of 313 to 2...not close at all.

pure fiction

Answer 9

The actual historical findings about Jesus are much more interesting than the fiction/non-fiction mishmash he did. After gaining a decent education, the mythological version of Jesus went by the wayside a LONG time ago for me.

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Answer 10

How do you find truth in The DaVinci Code?

Even the bookstores, publisher, and the author call it a work of fiction.
So, like Superman Comic Books, there is an element of truth, along with the concepts of good and evil, but the story-line is all fiction.

Sorry, I can't go where you're going with this question.