in the answer given by keshtov, can you see how the da divinci code could lead some astray?
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No. Not at all. Sorry. Anyone who can sit down and read a novel should be able to distinguish fact from fiction. If they can't, they really have no business reading. That's the type that would be putting Huck Finn down as a history test answer!
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Well, it would certainly be helpful, especially if God's take is "where in the name of Me did they get that book from?  I didn't write that!"\n\nUnfortunately, since having a Christ complex is automatically assumed to be prime evidence of psychosis and thinking you're a prophet usually convinces the government of every industrialized country, no matter which one you happen to be in, you're a cult leader who has to be stopped for the social good, any prophet that shows back up at this point to illuminate the word of God will either be labeled a lunatic and locked up in a teeny padded room with a guy knitting a sweater that doesn't exist and another one who thinks he's Napoleon, or else tear-gassed, and either shot on the scene or put on trial and hauled off to prison for the rest of his or her life.\n\nPlus, you do have to contend with the pesky fact the Bible says anyone who tries to tell you they know the word of God and that it's somehow different than the Bible is a false prophet trying to lead you to Hell and they'll be cropping up all over the place, while the only guy who can really explain it to you will only show up five minutes after the world ends... so chances are everyone who needs to listen will be busy sticking their fingers in their ears, screaming "No, NO!  NOT LISTENING, YOU WHORE OF BABYLON!  LA LA LA LA LA!!! NOT LISTENING!!!"\n\nSo who knows, could've been tons of them sent down by God to explain things to us, and we could've just ignored them all.\n\nP.S.-- Don't believe me?  Check the other answers.  Whole list of people saying exactly what I said they would, even the ones who are well aware at how butchered the modern work is and how much B.S. man has written into it.
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I've read the Book and parts of it are true.  Most good authors mingle fact and fiction.  It makes for a good read.  I've also read Digital Fortress, Deception Point, and Angels & Demons.  So when The DaVinci Code was issured, I was eager to read it, and I did 3 years ago.\n\nHe poses many good scenareos about how history may have been.  If you look back, most accepted history has been written by the dominant society of the time.  Other histories are destroyed along with the culture that lost.  A good example would be the Inqisition where people were tortured for not believing the way the Church said they should.  Take a look at what has happened to Scotland and Ireland when the British took over.\nAfganistan, Somalia, etc etc.  Only difference now is we have CNN and other news agencies looking in on things.   Why was the Library of Alexandria really burned down?\n\nBasically all Dan Brown has done is show us a different way to look at religion and it's history.\n\nI think this recent brouha over the book is fear that organized religion will lose it's influence and power.  Look at the religious uproar in Iraq.  The Sunnis and Sh'ite groups.  Everyone is right and everyone is wrong.\n\nRemember, it's just a book, a book of fiction in fact.  A really good read.
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don't know, maybe Nostradamus predicted it in his writings, look him up
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I don't have a copy of it here but I would like to remind you - and the rest of the ummah worldwide - that it was a work of _fiction_! Like the DaVinci Code. I've read almost every fictional thing Rushdie has written and he never just sticks in sotto voce comments that are 'Rushdie's idea'. So you'll find that this comment is also put in the mouth of a fictional character.\n\nReally! You need to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction! Check Wikipedia or something.
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It could be most of it fiction or reality.Still yet, whe don`t know if The Holy Grail really existed.Holly Blood And Holly Grail is the main book used in  Dan`s Brown book"The DaVinci Code".
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I would have to look at the source ,material myself to make this determination.\n\nTo me it seems plausible. I read the book, and I haven't seen the movie. It sure looks like a woman next to Jesus in the Last Supper painting.\n\nOpuis Dei is real. You can look them up.\n\nThere was a Nicean counsel, and at the counsel they wrote the Nicean creed which is still recited in Catholic Churches to this day. This is the counsel that the book says "elected" Jesus the savior.\n\nLike I said, I'd have to research the Nicean counsel and go deeper than what you can find on the Internet.
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Yes, but be careful.  There were many, MANY branches of belief (the very philosophies of gnosticism made that a foregone conclussion) and it is deeper and richer than some of the stuff you'll see on line.\n\nMay I suggest a source to you?
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In Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre, where the curator has just been found murdered. Unbeknownst to Langdon, he is a prime suspect in the man's death. The body of the curator has been left in the position of Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, and a coded message is left next to his body. In a quest to discover the murderer before he himself is arrested for the crime, Langdon races to decode a series of cryptic symbols relating to Leonardo's artwork. He uncovers the key to one of the greatest mysteries of all time – including the possible location of the Holy Grail.\n\nIncluded in the discoveries Langdon makes are the curator's membership in the Priory of Sion, and the involvement of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization made up of clergy and lay members trying to encourage Catholic teachings. Brown contends that the organizations, documents, rituals, artwork and architecture in the novel all exist. No one has proven the existence of the Priory of Sion as described in the book. The book provoked an uproar in the Christian community with some critics calling the work heretical and anti-Christian. Others applaud the controversy as having awakened a new interest in Christianity.\n\nThe book is filled with coded messages, anagrams and ambigrams, and number puzzles. Readers were invited to solve a puzzle found in four codes in the book; the winner would receive a trip to Paris. Thousands of readers broke the code, which had to do with longitude and latitude readings that pinpointed CIA headquarters in Virginia. It is also the location of a sculpture called Kryptos, which Dan Brown will write about in his next book.
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I just saw the film.\n\nThe part about how Christianity took pagan beliefs and mixed them in is correct. The fact that Constantine changed the religion (at least to a degree) is correct.  In fact when he ruled that in order to hold government office you had to be a Christian he managed to turn a bunch of pagans into Christians (in name only) over night.  Their underlying pagan beliefs remained the same, they just changed their title.\n\nThe part about the museum having bathroom windows that can be opened is absolutely false. Nor does the museum have bar soap that you can stick a GPS tracer into, they have liquid soap in the bathrooms.\n\nThe Priory has been pretty much determined to be a fraud. (Discovery Channel ran a series of shows which demonstrated this.) Of course, the paranoid will say that the "fraud" is just a cover story and it is exactly what the Priory wants you to think so that they stay secret.  \n\nThe idea that the "royal bloodline" filters down to one and only one woman in Europe seems pretty unbelievable. The Merovingians had many kids, there would have to be several thousand Merovingians by this point in history.\n\nThe idea that Jesus and Magdelene were married, well, not much proof one way or the other. Even if they were, it is that thing about rising from the dead that still sets things apart.\n\nOne idea that I don't think most people have considered is the possibility that the entire DaVinci Code movie and book might just be designed as a meme (brain virus as it were). Designed to "inject" the concept of this bloodline into the populace. Then, when the time is ripe, "they" will unveil a person who is supposedly the descendant in question whom "they" want to setup as a One World Leader.\n\nFrankly I think there is more "fact" in "The Norman Rockwell Code".
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I believe that spiritual blindness can not only lead you far astray but can determine how you will live your life now and forever. If there is no belief and if there is no hope, What is there left here for us to consider. When our Lord comes and those who have been blinded for their own ignorance, will fine a pill to be bitter. If there is no belief of our Lords coming, what a lonesome life one might lead. But if you fall between the cracks and have never study or learned the teachings, then my words you should heed. Start to study our lords words and teachings, The truth is there for your eyes to see. Ask questions when you don't understand and no that our Lord had to bleed. His blood was drained from his body so as we might live. This tragedy was and is the greatest gift His Father had to give.
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Aren't those the ones from the DiVinci code?
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The primary uproar from the DaVinci Code was that Jesus wasn't the true son of God, but that the church made that up years later.  \n\nAs for the rest of it, any time that you take something that has been long established or believed and try to change it, there will be those who resist just because that's "how it always was."\n\nI agree with your postscript, by the way.
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Why is "The DaVinci Code" not fiction anymore? I missed that announcement...Anyhoo, if you want to hear solid evidence for Christ, I suggest reading The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel. I am reading it right now, so I can't tell you too much about it, but he talks to all sorts of scholars, some Christian Bible Scholars, some atheists like himself. He presents the evidence (eyewitness, documentary, corroborating, rebuttal, scientific, psychological, circumstantial, and fingerprint evidence). I'm still in the chapter about eyewitness evidence, but it is really, really good. Reading this is a great way to get multiple views, so you can choose.
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Heh, heh... thanks bro. ;)\n\nI have seen some rare textual changes that have changed the meaning or even elimination of a word because they could not see how it fits. Hebrew letters can look very close to one another, much like our "l" and "i". So any distortion in the leather parchment could be a problem or the flaking of the ink could cause problems as well.\nMy mentor once told me that when the military creates a complex code, they transmit it with parity, or multiple times, so that if the coded message is in any way garbled, they can compare it to earlier or later transmissions. The Bible does the same thing by repeating the important messages several times. This is why Deuteronomy is called Deuteronomy. It's "repeating what we already know is true".\nCan these people explain to me why the entire 2,000 year old Isaiah scroll found in Qumran is virtually identical with the modern copies found in every synagogue in the world?\nRemember that Revelation carries an eternal curse of damnation for anyone who adds or subtracts from the text of scripture, and I do not think King James was hoping for political advantage at the expense of his soul.\nToday, we still have the original Hebrew and Greek text. Changing the scriptures would offer us ZERO political gain. Yet is still translates the same as the original King James, only with todays vernacular. \nI wonder if these people even research beyond their own notions. Do they have such skepticism when they read their dosage instructions for medication?
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A thought I've had, too! \nAnd, yes, I agree COMPLETELY-- it would be absolutely, mind-bogglingly funny as all h*ll!\nAnd the Vatican thought they were in an uproar over "The Davini Code"-- that'd be ridiculous, by comparison!
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Chances are, the answer could be something like:\n\nBecause he proves that no matter where he is he holds himself to a high moral standard, and he expects others to do the same.\n\nListing what chapter/the circumstances of the chapter would've been a smart way to ask.