"The Da Vini Code" fact or fiction?

Originally posted by Alliance
"god"

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Crazy?!? I simply responded to A DarksideJedi's thread.

Da Vinci Code
LIES, Blasphemy, Antichrist Damnable Heresy, Dangerous, Demonic, Satanic
By Jim Searcy

What are you saying?Confuse.jm

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Yes, the book is fiction, but I get a kick out of how bend the Christian community got over it. 😆

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
I have read the book all the through for school.I find it interesting but more fiction then facts.It seens that the writter just put all the stuff together making it up as he writes.
Do you guys think it is facts about jesus having a wife and a kid and about the whole blood line thing?Exclaim your answear.jm 🙂

Dan Brown said it was just a book 😕

Originally posted by Council#13
Dan Brown said it was just a book 😕

Maybe because it is. It is fiction. It is sold in the fiction section of the book shop, it is available in the fiction section of the library. Fiction.

I don't even think it is classifiable as historical fiction. Or alternate-historical fiction. At best it operates on some of the theories people have had about Jesus - to take that seriously one has to believe in Jesus, believe the claims about him, or believe the claims were wrong about him.

Personally I don't understand why (other then controversy) the Da Vinci Code has been so popular. It is a disposal bit of fiction, read it and leave it type. Formulaic, with characters straight from "Heroes and Villains 101" - albino monks? Crazy Geniuses? A bookish intellectual who is still attractive and manly? Honestly.

I read the book but didn't see the movie........I couldn't put it down!! It had so many twists and turns and puzzles..........that is what I liked.......

Christians need to get over the Da Vinci Code, the writer even said it was fiction, it isn't a Bible(yet the Bible is a Da Vinci Code 😱 ). You people are insecure about your own faith

ALTHOUGH, it was based loosely on fact, and other Theories from Leonardo's paintings

Originally posted by debbiejo
I read the book but didn't see the movie........I couldn't put it down!! It had so many twists and turns and puzzles..........that is what I liked.......

Have you read the book?

Originally posted by Alliance
I'm sure the book is 50x better.

It is, but that isn't saying much. Tom Hanks had bad hair, and the plot was dumbed down, and I dozed during the bits Ian Mckellen wasn't on screen.

I'm really irritated by people who say that Da Vinci Code is real. My friend was like, "Dude, I thought this when I was 5," and me and this girl were like, "Oh yeah? When did you first hear of Mary Magdelene?" and he was like, "Just a few days ago," and we're like, "And when did you first hear about the Last Supper?" and he was like, "Just a few days ago," and yet he insisted that he believed it since he was 5!!!

Originally posted by Darth Kreiger
Christians need to get over the Da Vinci Code, the writer even said it was fiction, it isn't a Bible(yet the Bible is a Da Vinci Code 😱 ). You people are insecure about your own faith

ALTHOUGH, it was based loosely on fact, and other Theories from Leonardo's paintings

Some people actually believe the lies. We stand here to help point those people to the truth.

just like how you believe the lies that you are being told.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Some people actually believe the lies. We stand here to help point those people to the truth.

Originally posted by FeceMan
I addressed this in the past: it's because there are people who would believe that it was, in fact, fact.

So. I feel the same way about religion.

Originally posted by Darth Kreiger
ALTHOUGH, it was based loosely on fact, and other Theories from Leonardo's paintings

Only if ones definition of fact is extremely loose. It makes use of names and locations that are real, but takes them into the realm of historical conspiracy - The use of Templars, Priory, Opus Dei etc - nothing at all like the book makes out. The facts are scant, and when they do crop up they are usually nestled in amongst a mass of psuedohistory or barely evidenced theory (such as the theories about Leonardo's paintings.)

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
Only if ones definition of fact is extremely loose. It makes use of names and locations that are real, but takes them into the realm of historical conspiracy - The use of Templars, Priory, Opus Dei etc - nothing at all like the book makes out. The facts are scant, and when they do crop up they are usually nestled in amongst a mass of psuedohistory or barely evidenced theory (such as the theories about Leonardo's paintings.)

Yea, the thing that got it going was the sudden increase in wealth/power after the Crusade where they based in the Temple of Soloman

total FICTION

I read this thread from the begining as I'm a newbie before I decided make any comment

Yes this book is written as fiction but what it's done is to make people start to think that maybe Jesus could have been married and had a child, some thing that they may have thought about but never wanted to say out loud. Anyway who is there to say that he couldn't . There is always some truth in fiction.