The Da Vinci Code is antiChristian nonsense.
The Da Vinci Code:
A Christian review
“There's a sucker born every minute!”
The Da Vinci Code is in two broad parts: The first part is a religious thriller that is gripping and keeps most readers interested. It opens with a murder in the Louvre Museum, and maintains pace for quite some time. The second part slows down considerably as it degenerates into anti-Christian propaganda for people who don't know history very well.
The Da Vinci Code is a “search for the Holy Grail” story, but the Holy Grail has been altered from the chalice Christ drank from at the Last Supper, to the body of Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene supposedly married Jesus, they had children, and all sorts of other nonsense comes through. In fact this book is nonsense on a stick of candy floss.
The Da Vinci Code contains blatant errors of fact. It says Leonardo da Vinci said this of the New Testament: “Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.” In fact, Leonardo made this comment about alchemists who claimed that they could change lead into gold — not about the New Testament.
It wrongly says the Emperor 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 gospels were outlawed, gathered up and burned.”
In fact, Constantine never commissioned any “new” Bible. He simply requested that Eusebius (the Bishop of Carthage) make fifty copies of the already existing and widely accepted Scriptures. Also, no evidence suggests that Constantine or anyone else “embellished” Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. Third, Constantine did not burn any gospels — he promoted them.
Inventing history
Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper takes on almost God-like authenticity in this book, and the author tries to make some point about a mysterious hand with a knife in the painting. The fact is, da Vinci's notebook explains that this hand belongs to an apostle.
The great chemist Robert Boyle (1627-1691), according to this book, was a grand master of the secret society the Priory of Sion. In fact, the Priory of Sion was an invention of an anti-Jewish Frenchman named Pierre Plantard, who went to jail in 1953 for fraud. In the 1960s and 1970s he forged documents trying to prove he was descended from Jesus and Mary and was the rightful heir to the throne of France. This forged document, it seems to Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, is supposed to be more reliable history than the 5000 manuscript copies of portions of the New Testament in Greek, and at least 15,000 more in other languages. Nothing like this abundance exists for any other historical writing.
As for Robert Boyle's alleged involvement in an anti-Christian society, this is absurd. Boyle was one of the sincerest Christians of his day. He would not have believed any of the nonsense this book promotes, as is clear from his recently released correspondence. He promoted the Gospel vigorously, and left all his money to promote evangelism.
The Da Vinci Code also claims that Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton were connected with the pagan Priory of Sion. But again, this is based on Plantard's forged documents, not on genuine history.
Poor research
The book is very poor research according to those who know, and Christian and non-Christian scholars alike have said the book is poppycock. It is not based on history — it is “alternative history”.
Unfortunately, the more gullible anti-Christian types who have only a superficial knowledge of art, religion, and other topics the book covers, will probably lap up this fiction as though it is fact. According to an old expression, “There's a sucker born every minute!” And those who believe that Dan Brown's novel is fact are the suckers he is catching.
An interview with the author shows that even he now believes his own nonsense. When he was asked: “How much of The Da Vinci Code is based on fact?” he replied: “All of it.” Sadly, he seems to have brainwashed even himself.
Other resources to help Christians counter the movie
- A Biblical Response [discussion sites, expert reviews, message boards, errors]
- The Da Vinci Code: Separating Fact From Fiction.
- Cracking Da Vinci's Code, by James Garlow and Peter Jones.
See also
- How can you believe the Bible if you can’t prove it’s true?
- How reliable are the Gospel accounts in the Bible?
- Robert Boyle: famous Christian chemist
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