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The worldwide best selling book

The Da Vinci Codeby Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Codeby Dan Brown

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In the Da Vinci Code Robert Langdon and Sophie

Neveu are caught in a fast paced chase through

Paris, London and elsewhere upon uncoveringthe secret of the Holy Grailnon other than the

royal bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene

of which Sophie is one of the few remaining

survivors. The Roman Catholic Church hassupposedly suppressed this amazing secret and

killed many belonging to the bloodline.

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The Priory of Sion is a European secret society foundedin 1099 by Godefroi to protect the bloodline of Jesus andMary (p.345).

The Da Vinci Code claimed:The Da Vinci Code claimed:

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Pierre Plantard formed Priory of Sion in 1954 to help thosein need of low-cost housing (group dissolved in 1957).

1960s and 70s Plantard created a series of forgeddocuments on the existence of a bloodline descending fromJesus and Mary through the kings of France to himself.

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This is Pierre PlantardThis is Pierre Plantard

He and his associates called themselves thePriory of Sion and deposited thesedocuments in libraries all over France,

including the National Library.1993 Plantard admitted, under an oath toa French judge, for this fabrication. Thejudge issued him a severe warning and

dismissed him as a harmless crank.

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In 1975 parchments known as Les DossiersSecrets were discovered identifying members of

Priori of Sion such as SirIsaac Newton, Victor

Hugo and Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci,

Grandmaster of The Priory of Sion left crypticclues in his painting The Last Supperthat the

person on Jesus right is not John the disciple,

but Mary Magdalene supposed evidence that

Jesus had a special relationship with her thatleads to marriage and a child: The Last Supper

practically shouts at the viewer that Jesus and

Magdalene were a pair (p.329).

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Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452.That would have made him 502 yearsold if he were to be really aGrandmaster of the Priori of Sion

society! As for Sir Isaac Newton(1642-1727), he was at least 312when he was a member. How absurd!

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In Browns book, PopeClement V suppressed

the Knight Templars

because they

blackmailed him with

the secret of the HolyGrail. And these four

chests of documents

were the treasure that

the Knights Templarfound under

Solomons Temple?

(p.344)

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Founded in 118, the Knights

Templar is an order of

soldiers who took a monasticvow to protect pilgrims on

their journey to the Holy

Land. They are a military

religious order. It was King

Philip who ordered the arrestof the Templar on Friday, 13

Oct 1307, not for any Holy

Grail trail, but on the charge

of heresy. This allowed Philipto seize their enormous

wealth and assets, including

the chalice supposedly used

by Christ at the last supper.

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The Vatican prelature knownas Opus Dei is a deeply devoutCatholic sect that has been thetopic of recent controversy due

to reports of brainwashing,coercion and a dangerous

practice known as corporalmortification. Opus Dei has

just completed construction ofa $47 million World

Headquarters at 243 LexingtonAvenue in New York.

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The real Opus Deiwork

of Godis a RomanCatholic lay organization

that empowers lay people

to emphasize piety and

good works, instead of

focusing on the spiritualityof clergy. Its founder San

Josemaria Escriva was

born in Babastros, Spain,

in 1902. The portrayal inThe Da Vinci Code as

existing to suppress

documents of the Priory of

Sion is pure fabrication.

San Josemaria Escriva

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The Bible, as we know it today, was

collated by the pagan Roman emperorConstantine (p.231).Because

Constantine upgraded Jesus status

almost four centuries after Jesus

death, thousands of documents

already existed chronicling His life asa mortal man.Constantine

commissioned and financed a new

Bible, which omitted those gospels

that spoke of Christs human traits andembellished those gospels that made

Him godlike. The earlier [Gnostic]

gospels were outlawed, gathered up,

and burned (p.234).

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Constantine could not have collectedand altered the combined evidence

of history that preceded him because

other ancient documents (beside the

New Testament that we havewhich

Brown accused Constantine fortampering them) do tell the stories of

Christ and his sufferings, death and

resurrection. And in history there is

no evidence that Constantine

ordered the burning of any Gnostic

gospels. What were burned were

Arian papers found by the Council of

Nicaea to be heretical.

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Should The Da Vinci Code shaken your

Christian faith and belief? Absolutely not. DanBrown is a mere story writer by which he was

clever to deceive his readers into buying his

bestseller book because of the new

revelation that he claimed to havediscovered. Dan Brown is classified a

historical fiction writera genre of literature

writings in which imaginary characters live

within the realistic boundaries of known facts.We can safely say that Dan Brown is also a

revisionist historianone who tampers and

revise history.

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In an earlier interview when asked,

How much of this novel is true?

Dan Brown said,

The Da Vinci Code is a novel

and therefore a work of

fictionEach individual reader

must explore these characters

viewpoints and come to his or

her own interpretations.

Lately, Dan Brown no longer claims the Da Vinci Code to

be fictional. Is it because money is pouring in from its

sales, attractingor rather deceivingthousand of

readers into buying the book thinking that it carries some

new historical evidences?

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Ephesians 5:6

Do not let anyone deceive

you with foolish words; it

is because of these verythings that God's anger

will come upon those who

do not obey him.