The Da Vinci Code The worldwide best selling book - by Dan Brown

The worldwide best selling book
 The Da Vinci Code
   by Dan Brown

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In the Da Vinci Code Robert Langdon and Sophie
 Neveu are caught in a fast paced chase through
 Paris, London and elsewhere upon uncovering
 the secret of the Holy Grail—non other than the
‘royal’ bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene—
   of which Sophie is one of the few remaining
    survivors. The Roman Catholic Church has
supposedly suppressed this amazing secret and
      killed many belonging to the bloodline.

In the title page, the author, Dan Brown wrote:

        “All descriptions of
      artwork, architecture,
     documents, and secret
     rituals in this novel are
             accurate.”

   This very statement
   supposedly caused
readers the confusion over
    reality and fiction.

The Da Vinci Code claimed:

• The Priory of Sion is a European secret society
founded in 1099 by Godefroi to protect the
bloodline of Jesus and Mary (p.345).

Actual Historical Fact
 • Pierre Plantard formed Priory of Sion in 1954 to
 help those in need of low-cost housing (group
 dissolved in 1957).
 •1960s and 70s Plantard created a series of forged
 documents on the existence of a bloodline
 descending from Jesus and Mary through the kings
 of France to himself.

This is Pierre Plantard

                He and his associates called
                themselves the Priory of Sion and
                deposited these documents in
                libraries all over France, including the
                National Library.
                1993 Plantard admitted, under an
                oath to a French judge, for this
                fabrication. The judge issued him a
                severe warning and dismissed him
                as a harmless crank.

The Da Vinci Code claimed:

    In 1975 parchments known as Les Dossiers
Secrets were discovered identifying members of
  Priori of Sion such as Sir Isaac Newton, Victor
Hugo and Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci,
   Grandmaster of The Priory of Sion left cryptic
   clues in his painting The Last Supper that the
  person on Jesus’ right is not John the disciple,
but Mary Magdalene – supposed ‘evidence’ that
   Jesus had a special relationship with her that
 leads to marriage and a child: “The Last Supper
  practically shouts at the viewer that Jesus and
          Magdalene were a pair” (p.329).

Actual Historical Fact

Leonardo Da Vinci was born in
1452. That would have made him
502 years old if he were to be
really a Grandmaster of the Priori
of Sion society! As for Sir Isaac
Newton (1642-1727), he was at
least 312 when he was a
member. How absurd!

The Da Vinci Code claimed:

  In Brown’s book, Pope
  Clement V suppressed
  the Knight Templars
  because they
  blackmailed him with
  the secret of the Holy
  Grail. “And these four
  chests of documents
  were the treasure that
  the Knights Templar
  found under
  Solomon’s Temple?”
  (p.344)

Actual Historical Fact
                          Founded in 118, the Knights
                                   Templar is an order of
                         soldiers who took a monastic
                             vow to protect pilgrims on
                                their journey to the Holy
                              Land. They are a military
                            religious order. It was King
                         Philip who ordered the arrest
                          of the Templar on Friday, 13
                            Oct 1307, not for any Holy
                           Grail trail, but on the charge
                         of heresy. This allowed Philip
                                 to seize their enormous
                          wealth and assets, including
                          the chalice supposedly used
                           by Christ at the last supper.

The Da Vinci Code claimed:
     “The Vatican prelature
     known as Opus Dei is a
     deeply devout Catholic
      sect that has been the
topic of recent controversy
            due to reports of
brainwashing, coercion and
       a dangerous practice
         known as ‘corporal
    mortification’. Opus Dei
         has just completed
       construction of a $47
million World Headquarters

Actual Historical Fact

  The real Opus Dei—“work
         of God”—is a Roman
     Catholic lay organization
   that empowers lay people
      to emphasize piety and
       good works, instead of
  focusing on the spirituality    San Josemaria Escriva
    of clergy. Its founder San
       Josemaria Escriva was
    born in Babastros, Spain,
     in 1902. The portrayal in
        The Da Vinci Code as
          existing to suppress
  documents of the Priory of
      Sion is pure fabrication.

The Da Vinci Code claimed:
  “The Bible, as we know it today, was
  collated by the pagan Roman emperor
  Constantine (p.231)….Because
  Constantine upgraded Jesus’ status
  almost four centuries after Jesus’
  death, thousands of documents
  already existed chronicling His life as
  a mortal man….Constantine
  commissioned and financed a new
  Bible, which omitted those gospels
  that spoke of Christ’s human traits and
  embellished those gospels that made
  Him godlike. The earlier [Gnostic]
  gospels were outlawed, gathered up,
  and burned” (p.234).

Actual Historical Fact

  Constantine could not have collected
  and altered the combined evidence
  of history that preceded him because
  other ancient documents (beside the
  New Testament that we have—which
  Brown accused Constantine for
  tampering them) do tell the stories of
  Christ and his sufferings, death and
  resurrection. And in history there is
  no evidence that Constantine
  ordered the burning of any Gnostic
  gospels. What were burned were
  Arian papers found by the Council of
  Nicaea to be heretical.

Should The Da Vinci Code shaken your
Christian faith and belief? Absolutely not. Dan
Brown is a mere story writer by which he was
 clever to deceive his readers into buying his
      bestseller book because of the new
       revelation that he claimed to have
    discovered. Dan Brown is classified a
‘historical fiction’ writer—a genre of literature
  writings in which imaginary characters live
within the realistic boundaries of known facts.
 We can safely say that Dan Brown is also a
‘revisionist historian’—one who tampers and
                  revise history.

In an earlier interview when asked,
“How much of this novel is true?”
Dan Brown said,

      “The Da Vinci Code is a novel
     and therefore a work of fiction…
       Each individual reader must
         explore these characters’
      viewpoints and come to his or
         her own interpretations.”

  Lately, Dan Brown no longer claims the Da Vinci Code to
    be fictional. Is it because money is pouring in from its
     sales, attracting—or rather deceiving—thousand of
  readers into buying the book thinking that it carries some
                    new historical evidences?

Ephesians 5:6
Do not let anyone deceive
you with foolish words; it
is because of these very
things that God's anger
will come upon those who
do not obey him.