what is the secret behind the da vinci code?
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The secret behind the Da Vinci Code is that it's claims are flat wrong and that the major basis of has already been proven bogus and manipulated.  \n\nIt tried to disprove the bible.  Dan Brown claims that:\n\n-"The Bible is a product of man...not of God." (Page 231)\n-"The New Testament is false testimony." (Page 345)\n-"The New Testament is based on fabrications." (Page 341)\n-"The Bible... has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book." (Page 231)\n\nIs there a woman in Leonardo’s Last Supper?\nLet’s do the math. Jesus and twelve apostles (all men) = 13 people. That’s how many people are in the picture. If Leonardo wanted Mary Magdalene in there, he would have to paint 14 people. \n\nLet’s do the history. The Last Supper was painted to decorate a dining room of a group of Dominican friars. Anyone of them was surely capable – especially when the painting was fresh and new – of noticing and asking why a woman was in the painting. But there is no record of anyone thinking that the figure to Jesus’ right was anyone but St. John because St. John was usually portrayed as a beardless, “pretty” rather than handsome youth. This “prettiness” was the artist’s way of highlighting his youth.\n\nLog on to www.wga.hu, click on Enter Here, click on “B” under “Artist Index,” scroll down and click on Bassano, Jacopo, scroll down his paintings and click on his Last Supper to get an enlarged view and see another young and “pretty” St. John.\n\nOr just think of Jeffrey Hunter playing Jesus in the “King of Kings” for a modern counterpart.\n\nAllow me to refer you to websites that would provide answers to your questions.
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It is a thriller story involving secret societies, conspiracies, the Catholic Church, and the fictional "truth" about Jesus Christ. Here is the author's own summary: \n\nA renowned Harvard symbologist is summoned to the Louvre Museum to examine a series of cryptic symbols relating to Da Vinci's artwork. In decrypting the code, he uncovers the key to one of the greatest mysteries of all time . . . and he becomes a hunted man.\n\nDuring the course of the novel it is alleged that the Catholic Church is perpetuating a major, centuries-long conspiracy to hide the "truth" about Jesus Christ from the public, and it or its agents are willing to stop at nothing, including murder, to do so.\n\nBefore reading the book, I would refer you to this literature that will give you a background of the basis of the book and the real historical fact.  http://www.crisismagazine.com/september2003/feature1.htm
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The DaVinci Code is a work of fiction pure and simple.  I think the reason some think it's fact is that there have been a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the gnostic gospels for a long time.\n\nThe History channel did an interesting show last night interviewing biblical scholars who all said that the conspiracies all fall apart when examined closely.
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Dear Lord, you have to realize that the book is FICTION. F-I-C-T-I-O-N!!! Do you honestly believe that Dan Brown is the keeper of the truth? NO! The Bible is God's word, not The Da Vinci Code. C'mon.
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da vinci code is a novel written by the famous author dan brown. he states in his book that jesus was married to mary magdalene and their bloodline is still existing in the world. he also states that the holy grail is not a cup but was the code name of mary magdalene. the most important theme of the book is the most famous artist(all-rounder infact!)leonardo da vinci has shown this in most of his paintings including "the last supper".though it is work of fiction, many christian communities are against this bcoz according 2 them it is blasphemous.but the book is really good.sorry for the looooong explanation though.bye!
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The book is about Jesus reportedly marrying Mary Magdalene and having a daughter, sarah.. and that the Holy Grail is not the cup that jesus drank from at the last supper, but the sacred feminine=mary magdalene..also contains references to symbolism trying 2 prove Jesus married and had a child.\nAs per the book an organisation called the Priory of Sion was founded by the Templars to protect the holy secret of the church. The Curator of the Louvre..who happens to be the Grand Master of the Priory is found dead within the museum the night he is to meet an american symbolism prof..Mr.Langdon. Langdon meets his granddaughter ..who has had a falling-out wiht her granddad after witnessing a sacred act.\nIt shows how they discover the secret of the Priory and of sophie(granddaughter's family).
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The problem is that too many Christians claim to follow Christ but are scripturally illiterate--they haven't read the Bible they claim to believe. So of course the "Da Vinci Code" would threaten their belief system, because their belief system hasn't been solidified yet. It's kind of like freshly poured cement on a sidewalk--until it's firm, anyone can put any impression into it. Christians need to go back to the source of their belief--the Bible--and then movies like this will be seen for the fiction they really are.
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Yes!Kinda...I think yes...\n\nWeird because Da vinci is written by one author..Dan Brown..Unlike the bible who's writers are many..\n\nNo..DVC doesn't have a physical evidence.. All are based on theories..
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It's a hidden map reference giving the location of the Holy Grail. Are you the only person on this site who hasn't read the Da Vinci Code?
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Rosslyn Chapel \n\nScottish composer Stuart Mitchell took 20 years to crack a complex series of codes, which have mystified historians for generations. His feat was hailed by experts as a stroke of genius. \n\nThe codes were hidden in 213 cubes in the ceiling of the chapel, where parts of the film of Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code were shot this week.
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It's absurd to believe that ANYTHING passed down for hundreds of years, and translated into hundreds of languages could be EXACTLY the way it was in it's original form. Not to mention that there are now different versions of the bible, King James Version, etc. \n\nLike now with all the hype over the Da Vinci code, people should ask questions and understand the origin of the religion that they believe so deeply in instead of just following it blindly.
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whats the secret? it depend on that
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THE DA VINCI CODE\nDAN BROWN\n\nCenturies ago, Christianity's darkest secrets were hidden--for their safety and ours--in a maze of riddles and paintings and secret societies and murders. Or at least that's what happened in Brown's best-selling novel. Either way the secrets are out now, and if they weren't worth $24.95 to you in hardcover, you can get them and the absorbing tale of Harvard "symbologist" (sorry, but there's no such thing) Robert Langdon and minxy sleuthette Sophie Neveu for cheap.\n\nSATURDAY\nIAN MCEWAN\n\nThe possibility that our personal well-being might rest upon very thin ice is a favorite topic of McEwan's. Rarely has he explored it with such serene wit or nasty intensity as in this magnificently unsettling novel, the follow up to his 2002 masterpiece Atonement. His central character, Henry Perowne, is a happy man, a successful London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a very comfortable town house. He also shares the generalized anxieties of people everywhere after 9/11. Then one Saturday he crosses paths with an excitable stranger, a man who will turn up soon again in Perowne's life and give a specific face to all his fears.\n\nNEVER LET ME GO\nKAZU ISHIGURO\n\nSomething is wrong at Hailsham, the very exclusive English boarding school that Kathy H. attends. The students there seem to have no parents, their teachers are wary of them, and they cannot leave the grounds. (You can catch echoes of a dark, inverted Harry Potter.) Part science fiction--horror, part existential waltz, Never Let Me Go is a gripping story about ordinary people trying to wring some joy out of life before it's too late--and for Kathy and her friends, it has always been too late.\n\nAMERICAN PROMETHEUS\nKAI BIRD AND MARTIN J. SHERWIN\n\nBrilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former communists--without ever losing sight of the injustices done to him.\n\nTHE ORIENTALIST\nTOM REISS\n\nMadonna didn't invent self-reinvention. Born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum fled the political violence of his native Azerbaijan for the swanky salons of proto-fascist Europe. There he became a swinging socialite and best-selling author using a totally made-up identity, that of a romantic Muslim prince named Essad Bey, a creature of curvy daggers and Moorish sighs. Commingling East and West, art and politics, and featuring countless cameos by the great and powerful, Nussimbaum's unlikely life (lives?) reads like a secret history of the 20th century.\n\nGARLIC AND SAPPHIRES\nRUTH REICHL\n\nWhen Reichl became the New York Times' food critic in 1993, she swiftly set about dismantling the work of her predecessors. To pages previously devoted to fussy French cuisine she introduced Japanese soba and Korean bulgoki, and she handed out stars to places earlier critics wouldn't have gone to wearing surgical gloves. She wore disguises so she could experience the service that ordinary people (i.e. non-food critics) get. Reichl writes dazzlingly about food, of course, but she also explores how liberating it can be to dress up as somebody else. She liberates her readers as well.
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The da vinci code basically says that jesus was married to mary magdalene and that they had a daughter who later had descendents who survive to this very day in france. It also says that the church is trying to supress this knowledge. It further says that Jesus was not divine, just a good mortal teacher. Book raises some good points but is filled with truths, half truths and rumor all mixed together.
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Okay, the big FUSS is that the Christian tradition does not include Jesus being married and having children. The Da Vinci Code is all about the Catholic Church conspiring to keep this "truth" hidden for hundreds of years. Also, the descendents of Jesus have been hidden by the Catholic Church.
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Have you really studied about your question or are you just asking because of something you may have heard?  The Da Vinci code is fiction.  On the front of the book it says novel.  As for the picture Da Vinci supposedly painted himself in the picture.  He is supposed to be the one at Jesus' left side that has his back to Jesus.  Now, think about what you said about the 1st and 14th centuries.  It there any chance Da Vinci took part in the Last Supper?  Fiction is a tale that writers spin to entertain us.  Some people take this entertainment to another level and use it for monetary gain, shock, and pure old diversion of the truth.
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murder mystery revolving around the mystery codes in leo da vinci's paintings n how they r cracked by the cryptologist robert langdon which leads to Revelation of many dark secrets ultimately leading to the murderer its worth goin thru that book would suggest u to read it