Da Vinci Code

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Is it Fact or Fiction?Is it Fact or Fiction?Is it Fact or Fiction?Is it Fact or Fiction?

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.

“All descriptions of artwork, architecture,

documents, and secret rituals in this novel are

accurate.”

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

This very statement supposedly caused

readers the confusion over reality and fiction.

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

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• 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.

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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.

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).


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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!


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)

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 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 at 243 Lexington Avenue in

New York.”

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 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.

San Josemaria Escriva



“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).


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.

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