Posted by Dinah on May 13, 2005, at 18:12:07
In reply to Do You Believe the DaVinci Code?, posted by Phillipa on April 30, 2005, at 21:15:38
I've listened to over half of it now. Some of it is outside of my realm of knowledge and so I can't say for certain. I looked at a few books that say it's based on faulty history, but I have no knowledge base.
But now it's getting into the Gnostic Gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The things I've read about them have hardly been written by devout Christians. Most of them have been written by skeptics. Yet nothing I've read supports the degree of claims made in this book.
Which makes the books frequent claims that this or that is widely accepted as fact a bit hard to swallow.
I guess it just seems like a lot of spin put on a very little amount of real information. And not enough clarification on what is conjecture and what fact. Not to mention the fact that the books seem to assert that the Gospels are actually written down at the time of Christ by his immediate followers, when most scholars place the earliest Gospel as written several years after the death of Christ. And placing equal weight on all Gospels. While there seems to be some agreement that there is some legitimate reason that some of the Gnostic Gospels weren't included in the final version of the Bible.
The same with the Council of Nicea. Some fact, some conjecture and not much clarification on which is which.
And if the ending of the book is what it appears to be, I'd have to question whether the supposed Grail would be any threat at all to the Church.
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