The Gospel of Mary actually teaches a very insulting view of women. These include Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary, and Gospel of Philip. The earliest Nag Hammadi document (the " Gospel of Thomas") was composed around AD 140, about two generations after the last apostle. Troublingly, they do not match up with the gospels in the Bible" (p245-46).įalse, these are not "the earliest Christian records" – the New Testament was written between AD 40 and 95, which the Nag Hammadi documents were written between 300 and 600 AD. The Nag Hammadi documents are a collection of later gnostic writings found in Upper Egypt around 1945. I spent 40 years working on it and what these people say - did not happen,” ( source) “I do know what was going on in Jerusalem in the 12th Century, I do know. Jonathan Riley-Smith, the former professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge University and a leading authority on the Crusades says: The Priory of Sion hoax was examined in a CBS 60 Minutes programme and also here. Plantard himself admitted that this document he wrote was a hoax. 2īrown bases a lot of his ideas from one document in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France called Les Dossiers Secrets d’Henri Lobineau supporting the existence of the Priory of Sion, written by Pierre Plantard. The historical records Brown refers to are 20th-century conspiracy books, not early Christian historical records. Dan Brown has one of his characters say that Jesus’ marriage is a "matter of historical record", but no scholar would claim this. For more on the historical relevance of these sources, read the article Fake Gospels. Even these writings do not claim that Jesus was married. The only evidence for any unique relationship (not even so far as marriage) between Jesus and Mary Magdalene is from two gnostic writing written around 200 years after the New Testament called The Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Philip. There is no evidence that Jesus was married, all historical documents and scholars indicate the opposite, that he was not probably married. If you’ve read or watched the book or movie, you’d do well to learn what parts of the book are fact and which are fiction.
"The Da Vinci Code … is indeed fabricated from start to finish: invented, made-up fiction."
Even the staunchest opponents of Christianity write: Despite what the author seems to claim, it is full of many clear historical inaccuracies. Unfortunately, many people don’t seem to realize that The Da Vinci Code is a fictional story designed to entertain and sell books.