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The Da Vinci Code.....

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Has anoyone read it?

There so much in there that i had always intuitvely belived.......

It decipher's Da Vinci's Code he put in his paintings that ultimately tell the story of the most important person in Jesus's life.......His wife.....

it explains Da Vinci's true genius......

It also tells of the bible's bias by the ones who worte it 400 yrs later......It explains how and why the Bible is so very patriarchal......
 
Yes I heard it says all those things, although I thought this was a novel, not to be non-fiction. I haven't actually read it though, so its just heresay.
 
Well the author uses a fictional story line......a murder mystery really.......to give the historical facts and explain how Da vinci's Painting contain a secret story never revealed about Jesus and the begginings of Christianity.........

Its beautifully written....very thought provoking and exciting at the same time.....I finished it in a week
 
there are tons of books on this general subject, encompasing the Magdalene and Davinci's Secrets and the Priori of Sion and Rennes le Chateau (sp?) and the Holy Grail. its deffinitely an interesting subject. do google searches on the above subjects and youll come up with HEAPS.
 
Yeah but does a painting really substaintuate a fact? How can we trust a painting to show us all the secrets?
 
Although this is a work of fiction , the information its based upon is NOT! There is plenty of evidence to substantiate the most of the claims in the book, although it's conclusion is a bit of a stretch of that evidence. I would defiantely classify this one as an eye-opener. I have heard many Catholics criticize it because of it's stance on the Catholic Church, but I feel,IMHO, that it is merely too close to the truth for them to be comfortable with. IF( this is a big if too), the evidence presented in this book were to prove to be true, and the Grail and its surrounding artifacts were to be of the nature described in this book. The implications on western Christian society ( both Protestant and Catholic ) would be profound and far-reaching, it would completely change the context of the book of Revelations altogether.

Da Vinci was a genius, not just as a painter and sculptor, but as a scientist and engineer, centuries ahead of his time. He was the Einstein of his day, he commonly put hidden signs and symbols in his paintings, things that would HAVE to be intentionally put there. Their meanings are just now comming to light because its taken us 500 yrs to catch up to Da Vinci in our own perspective.
 
I really just don't understand what the hell your talking about, to be quite honest. DaVinci, the painter? I mean, The Bible is backed up by major historians, this is just some arthouse painter, artys fartsy painter boy!
 
Bible is backed up by priest and the church commitee......not historians...........

The books that are included from the apostles are only the 4 out of 80 followers who wrote about Jesus and his ideals ........that the church 400 yrs later thought should ONLY be included

Also alot of history in this book wasnt just concluded from Da vinic's paintings.......but many other historical documents........Da Vinci's paintings an just an example......but pure genius
 
man the church is wierd in a sense. It found a bunch of scrolls about another society and their stories, then rather then stick them in a museum, decided to use 'em to create a religion. While a bit later it went around burning and destroying all the other sacred texts from other civilizations and actually used the scriptures as an excuse for genocide oppression and mass murder. What makes the story of jesus better then all the other stories of prophets and spiritual 'gods'? The church could have just as easily substituted the egyptian beliefs or somesuch and got the same effects. But at least you know that if your going to take over the world you need a nice document to legitimise it all, whether it be the bible or the american constitution and its beliefs on freedom and liberty for all.
 
The non fiction book where all of this crazy findings came from was just updated. "The Bood of the Holy Grail"? Anyways, its damn interesting stuff.
 
freelancinglance said:
I really just don't understand what the hell your talking about, to be quite honest. DaVinci, the painter? I mean, The Bible is backed up by major historians, this is just some arthouse painter, artys fartsy painter boy!
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To Be quite honest there isn't even ONE piece of historical artifactual evidence that can prove ANY event in the Bible. No Cross of the Crusifixion, no Ark of the Covenant, no Noah's Ark, nothing! So your "major historians" are batting a big fat zero. The Dead Sea Scrolls and a few other documents are the only outside (outside the Bible) sources that prove any of the events really occured. The Bible is NOT a historical document, it is a religious account of historical events. You'd think that holy Christian relics like the nails that held Jesus to the cross, and the Cross of the Crusifixion would have been preserved, especially with the Catholic Church's penchant for preserving the relics of saints. But, the only Early Christian relic that is said to have survived is the Holy Grail.

I would encourage you to read the book and at least learn what the basis of all this is, especially before you go off about someone like DaVinci being JUST a painter. That's like saying Martin Luther King was JUST some black guy, or Einstein was JUST a scientist. =D
 
i just bought this book... i've yet to get to it.. All walks of life though that i have spoken to have said this book is utterly amazing..
 
expatriate said:
To Be quite honest there isn't even ONE piece of historical artifactual evidence that can prove ANY event in the Bible. No Cross of the Crusifixion, no Ark of the Covenant, no Noah's Ark, nothing!
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Not true... the Bible describes political events such as coronations and wars that are verifiable. The burial places of some minor Biblical figures have been discovered, as well.
 
DigitalDuality said:
i just bought this book... i've yet to get to it.. All walks of life though that i have spoken to have said this book is utterly amazing..
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yeah, I read that a few years ago... it's a good read alright. Read "Foucalt's Pendulum" afterwards :)
 
that book seemed to have a very shallow and uninteresting feel to it...its prolly just me....ill take brett easton ellis anyday, now THATS writing
 
It's a pretty good book, not mindblowing or anything.. some people read to much into the plot tho.. it is fiction afterall.
 
JTNOLA5211 said:
It decipher's Da Vinci's Code he put in his paintings that ultimately tell the story of the most important person in Jesus's life.......His wife.....
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only if you accept that the figure in question is mary magdelene instead of the apostle john, who it is generally considered to be. remember that if da vinci painted a picture of jesus and wife he would have stood a good chance of being burned at the stake for heresy.

The next question to consider is this: Did Leonardo Da Vinci encode cryptic messages in his paintings, perhaps supporting a more feminist form of Christianity? Quite possibly. Of particular note is his rendering of one figure in his painting the Last Supper. This figure, generally considered to be John, the apostle Jesus loved (see Jn. 13:23) is beardless, has long hair and looks quite feminine. Could this in reality have been Mary Magdalene? It's possible, but critics point out that young men of Leonardo's day were often beardless and wore their hair long. Further, the robes worn by the disciples in the painting are ambiguous with respect to gender.


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it explains Da Vinci's true genius......
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if you ask me, da vinci's genius had more to do with his scientific pursuits than how some nutbar wants to interpret a painting after hundreds of years.
 
Ok, I just finished reading the Da Vinci Code and was utterly amazing. First off, I went into reading this book being very sceptical about Catholocism in general. I have taken many theology and mythology classes in the past, and all have basically told me the same thing as this book. Catholocism is based upon lies, deceipt, and the want to control the masses. I could go on for days about this subject, but only want to bring up a few main points.

First and foremost, Catholocism was based upon the teachings of Jesus, a supposed Divine Being. However, facts have piled up in the past and present leading us to believe that Jesus was not in fact a divine being, but just a normal man. I am not denying the fact that he was a very important man, clearly he was. He taught millions of people many wonderful things, and left a legacy that will never be forgotten. However, he never claimed to be divine, it was the Romans that did this. Catholocism was structed in a way to control the masses, and to enforce the relgion even further, they pooled together characteristics from other, more widespread religions and glued them to Jesus. Read more at www.entheology.org to go into more detail about this.

Secondly, Mary Magdelene was not a prostitute as the bible claims. According to the Dead Sea Scrolls and other unpublished gospels, she was Jesus's wife, and it is very possible that she was pregnant with his child.

Im not gonna go into it anymore, but the book is not all fiction, just the main plot line. Do some research for yourselves on these topics and you'll see, it is truly astounding.

Remember, history is always told by the winner and is NOT always the truth. If the above really was true, the Catholic religion would have all the reason to cover all the information up. Why do you think they flipped out and tried to cover up the Dead Sea Scrolls when they were discovered years ago?
 
^ for every point you make and say there is evidence to support there is an equal amount of evidence to the contrary. The book is fiction and the story line is based on theory and fantasy.

You say that there is a pile of evidence that Jesus was not a divine being, but a normal man. There would be people that would argue not only against that point, but against Jesus' existence at all. Any evidence from 2000 years ago is highly questionable - including the bible I am willing to admit, but thats another debate.

The idea that Jesus and Mary Magdelene were husband and wife and that she was pregnant with Christ's baby and fled to france is... fanciful to say the least. People decry the lack of evidence to support the Bible and Jesus in particular, but the amazing lack of evidence to support this amazing and completely revolutionary claim is even more perplexing.

The Dead Sea Scrolls is another highly debateable issue. The simple answer is that ALL scrolls with the name of God written on them were preserved, even those inaccurately translated and worthless. it is highly probably that priests in training wrote those scrolls and the cache (of which there are probably tons we have yet to find) are just a bunch of bad copies that had to be preserved ritualistically as they were.
 
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