Who belives in Da Vinci Code?
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most people do believe in the theory of dan brown\nalso, it seems most catholics too believe in it. otherwise there would have been no such heated debates over the topic. so i advise you to FACE THE TRUTH
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no, the da vinci code is a fictional book, it is just a theory. no truth to it.
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Its about the theory that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene & their blood line still exists protected by a secret society called Priority of Sion. \n\nThough this is the main theme od Da Vinci Code, there are also many controversial facts such as Jesus was a mortal just like any of us, the church has been putting down the role of women in the society & many such things.\n\nIts worth a read, very intresting.
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I have not had the opportunity to read the book or see the movie. My son is reading the book and telling me about it. We are both Christians. We believe it is possible that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. The Church, in all its "wisdom," removed many books from the Bible many centuries ago. I think it's a tragedy that they felt they had to do our thinking for us. I am looking forward to reading the book. I believe we are all intelligent enough to decide for ourselves what we believe. The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction. I'll probably wait to see the movie when it comes out on DVD.
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No...and I believe the following will enlighten you to some of the falsities of The Da Vinci Code.  It was a very good book, and I enjoyed it, but remember, it's fiction.  It's not a historical account, a classroom text, or any other nonfiction work.  It does not have to be (and is not) true.\n\n\nThe Da Vinci Code, the Catholic Church and Opus Dei\nA response to The Da Vinci Code from the Prelature of Opus Dei in the United States. \n\nApril 17, 2006 \nMany people are intrigued by the claims about Christian history and theology presented in The Da Vinci Code. We would like to remind them that The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, and it is not a reliable source of information on these matters. \n\nThe Da Vinci Code has raised public interest in the origins of the Bible and of central Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus Christ. These topics are important and valuable to study, and we hope that interested readers will be motivated to study some of the abundant scholarship on them that is available in the non-fiction section of the library. \n\nThose who do further research and exercise critical judgment will discover that assertions made in The Da Vinci Code about Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, and Church history lack support among reputable scholars. By way of example, The Da Vinci Code popularizes the idea that the fourth century Roman emperor Constantine invented the doctrine of the divinity of Christ for political reasons. The historical evidence, however, clearly shows that the New Testament and the very earliest Christian writings manifest Christian belief in the divinity of Christ. Other examples of discredited claims presented in The Da Vinci Code can be found in this FAQ from Catholic Answers or at the US Bishops' website, www.jesusdecoded.com. For those who are willing to take the time to get to the bottom of the issues raised in The Da Vinci Code, we recommend reading The Da Vinci Deception, De-Coding Da Vinci, or The Da Vinci Hoax. \n\nWe also want to point out that The Da Vinci Code’s depiction of Opus Dei is inaccurate, both in the overall impression and in many details, and it would be irresponsible to form any opinion of Opus Dei based on The Da Vinci Code. Those interested in learning more about the real Opus Dei may wish to read What is Opus Dei?, by Dominique LeTourneau, or Uncommon Faith, by John Coverdale. For those interested in further information about the various false impressions The Da Vinci Code gives of Opus Dei, please continue reading. \n\nPlease let us know if you need someone to speak about Opus Dei for a panel or other event about The Da Vinci Code -- we may have a speaker available in your area.  Also, free resource downloads for study groups and parishes are available from the group, Da Vinci Outreach.\n\n\n1. Opus Dei and monks \n\n\nThroughout The Da Vinci Code, Opus Dei members are presented as monks (or, rather, caricatures of monks). Like all Catholics, Opus Dei members have great appreciation for monks, but in fact there are no monks in Opus Dei. Opus Dei is a Catholic institution for lay people and diocesan priests, not a monastic order. \n\nOpus Dei’s approach to living the faith does not involve withdrawing from the world like those called to the monastic life. Rather, Opus Dei helps people grow closer to God in and through their ordinary secular activities. \n\n“Numerary” members of Opus Dei – a minority – choose a vocation of celibacy in order to be available to organize the activities of Opus Dei. They do not, however, take vows, wear robes, sleep on straw mats, spend all their time in prayer and corporal mortification, or in any other way live like The Da Vinci Code’s depiction of its monk character. In contrast to those called to the monastic life, numeraries have regular secular professional work. \n\nIn fact, The Da Vinci Code gets Opus Dei’s nature 180 degrees backwards. Monastic orders are for people who have a vocation to seek holi
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It's astonishing how many people think the DaVinci Code is a real story.\n\nNo, it's just fiction. There's no such office at Harvard (or anywhere else) as that of religious symbology. What a waste of a PhD's mind that office would be, don't you think?\n\nThe Priory of Scion was invented in the 1960s as a bizarre way for some unemployed French 20-somethings to get elected to office.\n\nThe Rosicrucians were a similar "joke" order as no one has verified whether this order actually exists.\n\nThe stories reflected in the gnostic gospels (ie, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Jesus) are apochryphal at best, having been dated several hundred years after the commonly-accepted time of Christ's life on earth.\n\nMerely because someone says or writes somethign doesn't make it true, and the denial of that thing does not constitute a conspiracy.\n\nBesides, there are no monks in Opus Dei. Albinos perhaps, but no monks. It's mostly an order of married persons.
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I believe that there is a lot more truth in the Da Vinci code than any religious institution is going to admit.  After all, it stands to under mind all they have been teaching for centuries.  Symbologists, I believe so--this isn't the only place they have been mentioned.
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I believe that there is a lot of compelling evidence for the theory behind the Da Vinci (everyone should notice that that's what you asked about, not the novel itself)\n\nThe Priory of Sion part is highly questionable, but the evidence for the bloodline of Christ is very plausible and at least as "provable" is the orthodox Christian account.
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i know.  my best friend knows somebody who says that the da vinci code his his new bible.  it is really stupid.  The Holy Bible will always be the only thing for me to follow.
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I don't think everything he writes about is true, of course. The author himself admitted to this. The only thing that I'm starting to be sure of is Jesus' relationship with Mary Magdalene and her being present in Da Vinci's "The Last Supper". We shouldn't believe everything the book tells us, but we might be able to read between the lines.
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The Da Vinci Code isn't completely true. What bothers me is that the Vatican is complaining. They thought Catholics would see right through a book based solely on speculation and stories that are probably false, oh wait.....
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The problem with "The Da Vinci Code" is that is starts by claiming that the Catholic Church is portrayed accurately. The trouble is, no distinction is made between the factual elements, and the purely fictional. As a result, people might come away believing fictional elements to be totally non-fictional.\n\nSome of the bigger fallacies claimed are:\n\nJesus is not God; he was only a man. \n\nJesus was married to Mary Magdalene. \n\nShe is to be worshiped as a goddess. \n\nJesus got her pregnant, and the two had a daughter. \n\nThat daughter gave rise to a prominent family line that is still present in Europe today. \n\nThe Bible was put together by a pagan Roman emperor. \n\nJesus was viewed as a man and not as God until the fourth century, when he was deified by the emperor Constantine. \n\nThe Gospels have been edited to support the claims of later Christians. \n\nIn the original Gospels, Mary Magdalene rather than Peter was directed to establish the Church. \n\nThere is a secret society known as the Priory of Sion that still worships Mary Magdalene as a goddess and is trying to keep the truth alive. \n\nThe Catholic Church is aware of all this and has been fighting for centuries to keep it suppressed. It often has committed murder to do so. \n\nThe Catholic Church is willing to and often has assassinated the descendents of Christ to keep his bloodline from growing.\n\nAnyone with a solid understanding of Catholic Church Doctrine and history, can easily discern fact from fiction. However many cannot, and therein lies the real danger.
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The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction: that is, the story has been made up. As for the things behind it, they vary, and unfortunately Dan Brown's note at the start of the book is misleading.\n\nThe Priory of Sion is not an ancient society, but was invented in 1954 by a French hoaxer.\nThe evidence for the normal Christian story rests on many sources from that time, but Dan Brown has no evidence for Jesus having married or had children.\nThe Knights Templar were broken up because they had lots of money that the authorities could confiscate, not because they were protecting Jesus' bloodline.\nThe Holy Grail is based upon Welsh myths of "Power Cauldrons", and so cannot really be connected even metaphorically to the story of a carpenter from Israel.\nOpus Dei do not murder or persecute people: they do much charity work and leading democratic activists around the world have been members.\nChrist's divinity was decided upon by the Church elders, but only in the same way that a scientific conference would have voted to approve the theory of gravity.
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The CONTROVERSY is that fiction about Jesus, the Bible and the church is being presented as fact. \n\nChristianity is based on the fact that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and that he arose three days later with all power. And as a result, we have the hope of eternal salvation and the ability to have a direct relationship with God the Father, through Christ the Son. \n\nIf the Da Vinci is accurate, then that means that we have no assurance of salvation; no redemption from the curse of sin and death. \n\nThe CONCERN is that those who are not believers or are new to the faith may take this information as fact. And as any Christian knows, no one is able to get to the Father, except through the Son. Believing what The Da Vinci Code states, leaves a person without the ability to have salvation, since there is no Savior with which we can be redeemed.\n\nBelow is a list of some of the misleading subjects (that I referenced from www.cbn.com) in The Da Vinci Code:\n\n\n****Differences Between Book & The Bible****\n\nHere are only a few of the errors represented as fact in Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code. \n\n1. The Da Vinci Code says... \nJesus is a great man or prophet in the earliest historical sources but was later proclaimed divine at the Council of Nicaea.\n\nThe Bible Says... \nJesus is called “God” (theos) 7 times in the New Testament. He is called “Lord” (kyrios) in the divine sense numerous times. No serious historian argues that these texts postdate the Council of Nicaea.\n \n2. The Da Vinci Code says... \nThe Dead Sea Scrolls along with the Nag Hammadi documents are the earliest Christian records. \n\nHistory Says... \nThe Dead Sea Scrolls are purely Jewish documents; there is nothing Christian about them. There is also no evidence any of the Nag Hammadi documents existed before the late second century A.D., with the possible exception of the Gospel of Thomas.\n \n3. The Da Vinci Code says... \n“One particularly troubling theme kept recurring in the [Gnostic] gospels. Mary Magdalene. . . More specifically, her marriage to Jesus Christ" (p. 244). \n\nHistory Says... \nThe Gnostic Gospels, a collection of anonymous writings that blended pseudo-Christian ideas with esoteric spirituality, say nothing about Mary and Jesus being married. *\n \n4. The Da Vinci Code says... \n“The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine” (p. 231).\n\nHistory Says... \nThe Bible was not collated by Constantine, who died in 337 A.D. The Old Testament existed prior to even Jesus’s day. And the New Testament, although it started coming together by the end of the first century (about 90-100 A.D.), was not formalized until about 393-397 A.D. (after Constantine’s death). *\n \n5. The Da Vinci Code says... \n“The royal bloodline of Jesus Christ has been chronicled in exhaustive detail by scores of historians” (p. 253).\n\nThe Facts Say... \nFollowing this comment about “historians,” Dan Brown lists four books written by various authors: Margaret Starbird, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. But none of them are historians. Starbird has an M.A. in comparative literature and German. Baigent holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and is pursuing an M.A. in mysticism. Leigh is a novelist and short story writer. Lincoln gained notoriety as a BBC television personality and scriptwriter. And Picknett, along with Prince, is involved in occultism, the paranormal, and UFO studies. *\n \n6. The Da Vinci Code says... \nLeonardo Da Vinci made the following comments about the New Testament: 1) “Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude”; and 2) “Blinding ignorance does misled us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes” (p. 231).\n\nHistory Says... \nThese remarks have nothing to do with Leonardo’s views on scripture. His first comment, in context, is about alchemists who claimed that they
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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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It is a movie based on the book The Davinci Code by author Dan Brown. It is a tale of murder and mystery surrounding the search for the Holy Grail, commonly thought of as the cup Jesus used in The Last Supper. If you don't want to know the plot, stop reading now.\n\nDan Brown introduces theories of Jesus having a bloodline AFTER him (not just before him through his mother)through Mary Magdeline. Dan Brown also hints at Mary Magdaline being one of his original 12 disciples-- the one Jesus refers to as "the Beloved Disciple" or the disciple that Jesus loved.\n\nDavinci and other artists of the time were thought to be in secret societies and used their art/paintings to hide clues to lead to the location of the "real" Holy Grail. There are depictions of religious ceremonies that have sex involved. It is an entertaining book--nothing more, and I am sure the movie will draw much controversy. My suggestion is that for the truth about Christ, read THIS bestseller:\n\n"The Bible"
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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!