That depends entirely on your faith. I am a Gnostic Christian. I was long before The Da Vinci Code. We believe that there is far more to the Bible than the 4 Gospels chosen by Constantine and the Nicean Council for inclusion. Those Gospels contradict each other time and time again. They are only part of the story and they omit over 30 years of the life of Jesus Christ. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, among the Gospels discovered was the Gospel of Mary Magdelene. It has been verified in terms of age and leads to the conclusion that she and Jesus were married and had a child. So what? Does that shake your faith at its roots? Does that disturb the forces in the universe to know that in addition to being The Son of God, Jesus Christ was also the son of a human woman and a human man who walked the earth and lived as any other man lived? Does it destroy your faith to learn that like the Bible says, Jesus was fruitful and multiplied? Not me. It doesn't bother me a single bit. It just increases my belief in his humanity. Does it bother you to know that back in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, popes were married and had mistresses and fathered children? Lucrezia and Cesere Borgia were two of four children fathered by Pope Alexander V!. Cesare was one of the most evil men who ever lived. He made Saddam look like a character from Disneyland.
Did the Da Vinci Code get it 100% right? Of course not. But Mr. Brown certainly got some of the major points pretty accurately. Yes, there is an Opus Dei. They are a wealthy and strange Catholic sect located in NYC. They are extremely wealthy, use cilices and the discipline and it is true that Pope John Paul 11 canonized Josemaria Escrivá their founder under very strange circumstances - no waiting time. There is also a Priory of Sion who believe they are the keepers of the lineage of Jesus Christ. Many French people have known this all along. That Mary Magdelene landed on the shores of France near Sur de la Mer and gave birth to a redheaded daughter - the true sangreal. It is said that the closest lineage now runs through the St. Clair or in English Sinclair families. There is no doubt in my mind that Sarah, daughter of Jesus was a redheaded French child.
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2007-11-18 22:35:32
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answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7
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As faith is a technique of controlling and standardising peoples' non secular ideals (and this happens with ALL religions), i think of that the DaVinci Code in basic terms makes us think of roughly what the common non secular individual is afraid to think approximately: the reality that there would be extra accessible than what we are informed. Which, in a fashion, is clever - in case you like a device of concept to be broadly subtle, you may desire to maintain it undemanding, ordinary to digest and dogmatic, so questions could be suppressed. The DaVinci Code is a magnificent secret e book, written in an addictive way, and dealing with subjects that have an effect on human beings: non secular concept, conspiracy concept and hidden truths. i won't make specific or deny the e book having a historic validity, and the same is going for non secular scriptures, as, extra often than no longer, none of them are truthfully historic archives, yet in basic terms hearsay, narrations propagated by applying word of mouth and recorded in some unspecified time interior the destiny.
2016-10-17 06:11:24
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answered by Anonymous
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No, it is not. The Priory of Sion is not an old established order, but something dreamed up by a couple of Frenchmen as recently as the 1950s. The existence of the group was first predicated in a book called The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail published in the 1980s but the theory was totally debunked. Opus Dei exists as a group within the Catholic Church. Its motives and methods of operation have been questioned. Roslyn Chapel exists - I've been there. Another answer refers to the book as 'literature' - I would question that classification.
2007-11-18 20:10:21
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answered by rdenig_male 7
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your question is very broad and slightly undreadable. (if that is even a word!)
at the beginning of the book there is a section that does indeed tell you what is fact - so one would assume that the majority of it is fiction.
what part exactly are you after?
do some research (from both sides -- no just da vinci code fans!) and come to your own conclusions. its a very sensitive topic.
2007-11-18 20:06:49
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answered by Anonymous
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It is not real. It is based loosely on some facts, but the story in itself is not 100% true. A good, interesting read though.
2007-11-18 20:05:04
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answered by Anonymous
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I wouldn't think the DaVinci code would be definetly devine as p-coding, or even ML and C++ would, nor anything resemble that of PROLOG, ReasoningMachiner, ADA, MODULA-2 and ALGOL altogether,thou'. But,somehow it does reveals of something peculiar and strange occassion of the ContraVersiche,instead,or are they ?
2007-11-18 20:42:36
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answered by Anonymous
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It's a real literary work, but it's not "real" in the "entirely factual" sense of the word.
2007-11-18 20:05:08
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answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7
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no there are several things from the Bible that were distorted to make the story more interesting. there are websites out there that will fill you in - go to google
2007-11-18 20:05:57
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answered by Anonymous
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There are some facts, half-truths, and outright lies. Why - probably to make it more interesting and controversial. :)
2007-11-18 20:06:05
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answered by Will 3
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Virtually all the historical details in the book are flat out wrong.
2007-11-18 20:08:39
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answered by Anonymous
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