![]() Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King is an authority on women's roles in the early church and author of a recent book on Mary Magdalene. ![]() She lives in our memory as the Biblical figure with the flowing red hair, a fallen woman until she is forgiven by Jesus. Mary Magdalene was born, it is believed, in the town of Magdala, a fishing village on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. ![]() To understand that secret and to separate fact from fiction in “The Da Vinci Code,” we pieced together a portrait of the novel's key figure, a woman who lived 2,000 years ago: Mary Magdalene. It might not be a cup at al, but a secret, the author suggests, that would radically change our understanding of Jesus and the life he led. But in “The Da Vinci Code,” the grail takes on an entirely new meaning. In the book, the monk kills the curator in a quest for the legendary Holy Grail, a mythical vessel often thought of as the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. "Fiction, as if it were fact, as if it were history, and say 'Well, this really rocks my world? What I’ve always come to understand about Jesus and the Catholic church is suddenly everything’s up for grabs and that shakes a lot of people up,” says NBC News analyst Father Thomas Williams of Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University. But readers are told right from the start that "all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." That provocative statement gives an air of credibility to the book's elaborate conspiracy theories and it's caused millions of readers to wonder how much they really know about Jesus and a woman named Mary Magdalene. #The da vinci code codeThat is what The Da Vinci Code is all about-presenting a false view of who Jesus Christ truly was and then explaining why this “truth” has been "hidden" for nearly 2000 years.That scene, from the opening pages of “The Da Vinci Code” is, of course, fiction. People do not want to believe that Jesus is God or that He is the Savior, so they make up falsehoods about Him in order to create a false Jesus that they can believe in. The Da Vinci Code is in reality an attack on the Person of Jesus Christ. Rather, the church protected the truth about Jesus being God in the flesh (John 1:1, 14). The church did not cover up the truth about Jesus being married to Mary Magdalene. Even these “gospels” only give hints of a relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Yes, the early church attempted to destroy many “gospels” about Jesus, but they did so because they were almost universally recognized as heretical, not to cover anything up. But the truth is that Jesus was not married to Mary Magdalene or anyone else. Since there is no historical, biblical, or theological basis for his beliefs, Dan Brown presented them in a fictional account. ![]() Dan Brown is of the persuasion that these ideas about Jesus are true. It is a well-written, entertaining book, but that’s all there is to it. All the Christian books which told of Jesus’ relationship with Mary Magdalene were destroyed, and any evidence of such a relationship was covered up.Īgain, The Da Vinci Code is fiction. The Da Vinci Code states that these facts about Jesus Christ were covered up by the early church in order to protect the idea of Jesus’ divinity. Mary Magdalene and Jesus’ descendants were the “holy grail” that carries the blood of Christ. In the book, Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children. The Da Vinci Code is essentially an attempt to "humanize" Jesus Christ by inventing a story of how His true identity was distorted and hidden for nearly two thousand years. As much as author Dan Brown would like us to believe, The Da Vinci Code has no solid basis historically, biblically, or theologically. Is there truth to Dan Brown’s bestseller The Da Vinci Code? It is important to remember that The Da Vinci Code is entirely fictional. ![]()
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