THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS DAN BROWNS BOOK "DA VINCI
CODE" QUESTIONS. THE DA VINCI CODE HAS EXPLODED INTO A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENOM AND HAS PUT QUESTION AND DOUBT IN THE HEARTS OF
PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. DAN BROWN QUOTES IN HIS BOOK; "FACT: ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF ARTWORK, ARCHITECTURE, DOCUMENTS, AND SECRET
RITUALS IN THIS NOVEL ARE ACCURATE." THE BOOK "LITERALLY" IS FILLED WITH INCORRECT AND FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT JESUS, THE
NEW TESTAMENT, THE BIBLE, AND CHRISTIANITY. THERE ARE SO MANY FALSE STATEMENTS IT WOULD TAKE ANOTHER BOOK TO CATALOG THEM
ALL. BUT I HAVE CHOSE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TO HIGHLIGHT "PROVING" THE DA VINCI CODE IS SIMPLY WRONG! THE BEST WAY TO
BEGIN IS TO FIRST UNDERSTAND THE DA VINCI CODE THEORY. THE MYTH GOES THAT JESUS AND MARY MAGDALENE WERE REALLY MARRIED AND
THAT IT IS MARY SITTING NEXT TO JESUS IN DA VINCI'S LAST SUPPER PAINTING AND THAT SHE IS ACTUALLY THE HOLY GRAIL BECAUSE SHE
WAS TO HAVE JESUS' CHILD. AS THE LEGEND GOES THERE WERE TRUNKS FULL OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS DISCOVERED UNDER SOLOMONS TEMPLE
AND ONE DOCUMENT REVEALED JESUS AND MARY MAGDALENES MARRIAGE AND THEIR FAMILY TREE. DURING THE CRUSADES THERE WAS AN ALLEGED
GROUP CALLED THE "PRIORY OF SION." THEIR MISSION WAS TO PROTECT THE SECRET AND THE DOCUMENTS IN CO-HORTS WITH THE CHURCH.
ACTUALLY THE PRIORY OF SION NEVER EVEN EXISTED. IN SEPTEMBER 1993 PIERRE PIANTARD ADMITTS TO FRENCH JUDGE THIERRY JEAN-PIERRE
THAT HE MADE UP THE PRIOR OF SION AND PLANTED THE DOCUMENTS IN A LIBRARY WHERE THEY WERE FOUND.
TO ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHO JESUS WAS YOU MUST READ
ABOUT HIM AND HIS LIFE. GOD GAVE US THE BIBLE FOR THIS. THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPELS IS WHAT WE HAVE AS CHRISTIANS THAT TELLS
US WHO JESUS WAS. BUT DAN BROWN SAYS THE GOSPELS MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN WERE THE LATER DOCUMENTS, AND THAT BY THEN
MYTH AND LEGEND FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE TEXT. DAN BROWN QUOTES FROM THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS OF THOMAS, GOSPEL OF MARY, AND THE
GOSPEL OF PHILIP. SO WHICH DOCUMENTS DOES ONE GO BY TO GET THE TRUTH? ONE WOULD RATHER GO BY THE EARLIEST BOOKS OR THE ONES
WRITTEN WITHIN THE CLOSEST TIME PERIOD OF JESUS HIMSELF. DAN BROWN STATES THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS HE QUOTES FROM ARE THE EARLIER
DOCUMENTS AND THE FOUR GOSPELS OF THE N.T. ARE LATER WHEN IN FACT THIS IS REALLY THE OPPOSITE. I'M ABOUT TO PROVE TO YOU THAT
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN WAS WRITTEN WITH-IN THE "EYE WITNESS" TIME PERIOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF:
*A.D. 110 POLYCARP BISHOP OF SMYRNA QUOTES
AND REFERS TO 18 N.T. LETTERS INCLUDING ALL
FOUR GOSPELS OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN
*A.D. 108 IGNATIUS BISHOP OF ANTIOCH QUOTES
AND REFERS TO 24 OF 27 N.T. LETTERS
INCLUDING ALL FOUR GOSPELS OF MATTHEW,
MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN.
*A.D. 96 CLEMENT BISHOP OF ROME QUOTES AND
REFERS TO 11 N.T. LETTERS INCLUDING ALL FOUR
GOSPELS OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN.
THE ANSWERS ARE RIGHT THERE IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS.
THIS PROVES THAT AT LEAST BY 95 A.D. THE GOSPELS MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN WAS ALREADY WRITTEN AND WAS IN CIRCULATION
STILL DURING THE "EYE WITNESS" TIME PERIOD OF JESUS CHRIST. IN 1996 TIME MAGAZINE RAN AN ARTICLE ABOUT THREE FRAGMENTS
OF THE N.T. THAT HAD BEEN DISCOVERED. THE FRAGMENTS THEY FOUND DATED TO 60 A.D.
MANY OFTEN FORGET THAT THE DESCIPLE LUKE WROTE THE BOOK
OF ACTS! THE RECORDED DEATH OF THE APOSTLE PAUL IS 68 A.D. THE DESCIPLE LUKE JOURNEYED WITH PAUL MANY YEARS LEADING UP
TO PAUL'S DEATH. THE APOSTLE PAUL IS A VERY IMPORTANT FIGURE IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. THE BOOK
OF ACTS DOES NOT MENTION PAUL'S DEATH. YOU WOULD THINK AS IMPORTANT AS PAUL IS TO LUKE & CHRISTIANITY THAT LUKE
WOULD HAVE MENTIONED PAUL'S DEATH, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY HAD TRAVELLED TOGETHER AND WAS SO CLOSE.
THIS IS ONE FACT SUGGESTING THAT THE BOOK OF ACTS WAS WRITTEN BEFORE PAUL'S DEATH IN 68 A.D. THIS PUTS THE BOOK
OF ACTS IN THE "EYE-WITNESS" TIME PERIOD OF JESUS CHRIST. SINCE LUKE WAS THE AUTHOR OF ACTS AND IT WAS IN THE EYE-WITNESS
TIME FRAME OF JESUS, WE CAN ALSO PUT THE GOSPEL OF LUKE IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD.
PEOPLE IN THE 1ST CENTURY DID NOT HAVE TELEVISION AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF TODAY TO OCCUPY THEM. A PERSON
HAD THEIR FAMILY, YOU HAD YOUR JOB TO FEED YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU HAD YOUR RELIGION/FAITH.
THE JEWISH TEMPLE WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO A JEWISH PERSON BECAUSE IT WAS PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE ESPECIALLY
IF YOU LIVED IN OR CLOSE TO JERUSALEM. NOT ONE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPELS MENTIONS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IN 70 A.D.
AS IMPORTANT EVENT AS THE FALL OF THE MOST HOLY PLACE, THE JEWISH TEMPLE, YOU WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE MENTIONED IN THE TEXT
OF THE GOSPELS SOMEWHERE, BUT IT IS NOT! MAYBE IT IS BECAUSE WHEN THE GOSPELS WERE WRITTEN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE HAD
NOT HAPPENED YET! IN OTHER WORDS, BASED ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE "NOT" BEING MENTIONED IN THE GOSPELS, THIS WOULD
MEAN THEY WERE WRITTEN BEFORE 70 A.D.
THE NAG HAMMADI GNOSTIC GOSPELS THAT DAN BROWN QUOTES
FROM WERE ACTUALLY WRITTEN LATER BETWEEN THE END OF THE 2ND CENTURY AND BEGINNING OF THE 3D CENTURY. MARY, PHILIP,
THOMAS, AND JUDAS HAD ALREADY BEEN DEAD FOR LONG OVER A 100 YEARS WHEN THE GOSPEL UNDER THEIR NAME WAS WRITTEN. THEIR NAME
WAS ADDED TO THE BOOK TO GIVE IT CREDIBILITY. REMEMBER THE AUTHORS OF ALL THE LOST GOSPELS FOUND AT NAG HAMMADI WERE GNOSTICS, NOT
CHRISTIANS. See my "Truth About the Lost Gospels" Page!
THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE VERY QUESTIONABLE
VERSES IN THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS: SIMON PETER SAYS, "LET MARY LEAVE US FOR WOMEN ARE NOT WORTHY OF LIFE." JESUS ANSWERED AND
SAID, "I MYSELF SHALL LEAD HER IN ORDER TO MAKE HER MALE, SO THAT SHE TO MAY BECOME A LIVING SPIRIT RESEMBLING YOU MALES.
FOR EVERY WOMEN WHO WILL MAKE HERSELF MALE WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." IT IS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE THAT ANYONE WOULD
BELIEVE PETER OR JESUS WOULD MAKE SUCH A STATEMENT.
DAN BROWN QUOTES A STATEMENT OUT OF THE GOSPEL
OF PHILIP. IT SAYS, ".....AND THE "COMPANION" OF THE SAVIOR IS MARY MAGDALENE." DAN BROWN THEN STATES "ANY ARAMAIC SCHOLAR
WILL TELL YOU THE WORD COMPANION MEANS SPOUSE OR WIFE." FIRST, THE GOSPEL OF PHILIP WAS NOT WRITTEN IN
ARAMAIC, IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN GREEK. STILL, EITHER
ARAMAIC OR GREEK, SCHOLARS WILL TELL YOU IF YOU LOOK AT ANCIENT ARAMAIC AND GREEK TEXT THE WORD COMPANION IN NO WAY, SHAPE,
OR FORM ALSO MEANS OR REFERS TO SPOUSE OR WIFE! IF THE WORD COMPANION NO WHERE ELSE IN ANCIENT TEXT REFERS TO SPOUSE
OR WIFE, WHY THEN WOULD IT MEAN THIS ONLY IN THE GNOSTIC GOSPEL OF PHILIP? SOMETHING ELSE MOST PEOPLE NEVER THINK ABOUT IS
DO WE REALLY THINK ONLY "MEN" FOLLOWED JESUS? I BELIEVE MEN & WOMEN BOTH FOLLOWD JESUS. THIS DOES NOT MEAN JESUS WAS INVOLVED
OR MARRIED TO ANY OF THE WOMEN. AND I'M SURE THERE MAY HAVE EVEN BEEN TIMES WHEN MAYBE THE ONLY ONES AROUND JESUS AT A PARTICULAR
TIME WAS A FEMALE OR A WOMEN. BUT AGAIN THIS DOES NOT MEAN JESUS HAD PHYSICAL INVOLVEMENT WITH THEM. JESUS TURNED AWAY
NO ONE. I'M SURE THE GROUPS AGAINST JESUS DURING HIS TIME "ITCHED AT THE CHANCE" TO SPREAD A RUMOR THAT JESUS WAS SEEN WITH
A WOMEN OR A PROSTITUTE, ANYTHING TO DAMAGE JESUS' CREDIBILITY. SO I'M NOT SHOCKED TO SEE THESE RUMORS IN A TEXT LIKE THE
GOSPEL OF PHILIP THAT WAS WRITTEN BY A NON-CHRISTIAN GNOSTIC INDIVIDUAL AROUND THE 3D CENTURY.
DAN BROWN STATES THAT THE PAGAN ROMAN EMPEROR CONSTANTINE
PUT TOGETHER A COMMITTEE THAT CHOSE THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE THAT OMITTED THOSE GOSPELS THAT SPOKE OF JESUS HUMAN TRAITS AND
EMBELLISHED THOSE GOSPELS THAT MADE HIM "GOD LIKE" AND THAT THE EARLIER DOCUMENTS WERE OUTLAWED AND BURNED. CONSTANTINE WAS
NOT UNTIL THE 4TH CENTURY AND WE HAVE ALREADY PROVEN THE N.T. GOSPELS AND ALMOST EVERY OTHER N.T. BOOK
WAS IN CIRCULATION AND USED BY THE CHURCH AT LEAST BY 60-95 A.D. DURING THE EYE WITNESS TIME PERIOD OF JESUS CENTURIES BEFORE
CONSTANTINE.
HERE IS ANOTHER GOOD FACT ON THE NEW TESTAMENT. THERE
HAVE BEEN 24,633 FOUND DOCUMENTS AND FRAGMENTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE. THERE IS 5,600 FOUND N.T. DOCUMENTS COMPLETE
FROM MATTHEW TO REVELATION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK. THERE IS OVER 8,000 FOUND N.T. DOCUMENTS COMPLETE FROM MATTHEW TO REVELATION
IN LATIN. THE CLOSEST BOOK TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AS FAR AS FOUND COPIES IS HOMERS "ILIAD & ODDYSEY." THERE ARE ONLY 643
KNOWN COPIES OF HOMERS' ODDYSEY. THE MORE COPIES FOUND OF A DOCUMENT, THE BETTER CHANCE WE HAVE TO UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINAL.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER BOOKS IN HISTORY THAT ARE NEVER QUESTIONED WHEN REALLY THE EARLIEST FOUND COPY OF THE BOOK DATES
MANY CENTURIES AFTER IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN, ALLOWING MANY ADDITIONS AND OMISSIONS TO OCCUR. IT HAS EASILY BEEN PROVEN
THAT THE N.T. GOSPELS MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN ARE THE EARLIER BOOKS WRITTEN BY THE ONES THAT WALKED WITH JESUS. I WOULD
RATHER GO BY THE BOOKS WRITTEN BY THOSE WHO WALKED WITH HIM VERSES THE GNOSTIC (NON-CHRISTIAN) GOSPELS WRITTEN AROUND THE
2ND AND 3D CENTURIES.
DAN BROWN SAYS THAT IN DA VINCI'S PAINTING OF THE LAST
SUPPER THE PERSON TO THE RIGHT OF JESUS IS REALLY MARY MAGDALENE. A COUPLE REASONS IS BECAUSE THE PERSON HAS NO FACIAL HAIR
AND FEMININE QUALITIES. IF YOU LOOK CLOSE THE PERSON TO JESUS RIGHT IS NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN THE PAINTING WITH NO FACIAL
HAIR. ALSO MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN THE PAINTING HAVE FEMININE FEATURES, INCLUDING JESUS HIMSELF. DAN BROWN FAILS TO MENTION
THAT DA VINCI HAD OTHER PAINTINGS, ONE OF GABRIEL "THE MESSENGER ANGEL" AND ONE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST WHO HAD NO FACIAL
HAIR: THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY ARE FEMALE.
DAN BROWN ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE COUNCIL OF NICEA. THERE
WERE 318 THAT ATTENDED THE COUNCIL OF NICEA IN 325 A.D. TO DETERMINE WHETHER JESUS WAS "OF GOD" OR PART OF THE TRINITY. DAN
BROWN STATES THAT THE VOTE WAS VERY CLOSE VOTING JESUS AS DIVINE. IN FACT THE COUNCIL OF NICEA VOTE WAS 316 TO 2 IN FAVOR
THAT JESUS WAS OF GOD. THE TWO THAT VOTED AGAINST WERE THE TWO MEN THAT SUGGESTED THE WHOLE THING ANYWAY.
THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE FALSE STATEMENTS IN THE DA
VINCI CODE, THERE ARE MANY MORE. IT IS SHOCKING THAT PEOPLE WOULD BELIEVE THE DA VINCI CODE THEORY WHEN THE TRUTH AND FACTS
ARE HERE FOR US TO SIMPLY REALIZE THE BOOK IS NOTHING MORE THAN "FICTION." THE BIBLE TELLS US WE MUST NOT BELIEVE ALL TEACHERS
AND ALSO WHAT IS TO COME IN THE END DAYS.
II TIMOTHY 4:3-4 SAYS,"FOR THE TIME WILL COME WHEN
THEY WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE; BUT AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS SHALL THEY HEAP TO THEMSELVES TEACHERS, HAVING ITHING
EARS; AND THEY SHALL TURN AWAY THEIR EARS FROM THE "TRUTH", AND SHALL BE TURNED UNTO "FABLES".
I JOHN 4:1 SAYS, "BELOVED, BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT,
BUT TRY THE SPIRITS WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD: BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD."
