Is there truth to Dan Brown’s bestseller
The Da Vinci Code? It is important to remember
that The Da Vinci Code is entirely fictional. As
much as author Dan Brown would like us to
believe, The Da Vinci Code has no solid basis
historically, biblically, or theologically. The Da
Vinci Code is essentially an attempt to
"humanize" Jesus Christ by inventing a story of
how His true identity was distorted and hidden for
nearly two thousand years. In the book, Jesus was
married to Mary Magdalene and had children.
Mary Magdalene and Jesus’ descendants were the
“holy grail” that carries the blood of Christ. The
Da Vinci Code states that these facts about Jesus
Christ were covered up by the early church in
order to protect the idea of Jesus’ divinity. All the
Christian books which told of Jesus’ relationship
with Mary Magdalene were destroyed, and any
evidence of such a relationship was covered up.
Again, The Da Vinci Code is fiction. It has no basis
in reality. It is a well-written, entertaining book,
but that’s all there is to it. Dan Brown is of the
persuasion that these ideas about Jesus are true.
Since there is no historical, biblical, or theological
basis for his beliefs, Dan Brown presented them in
a fictional account. But the truth is that Jesus was
not married to Mary Magdalene or anyone else.
Jesus did not have any children. Yes, the early
church attempted to destroy many “gospels”
about Jesus, but they did so because they were
almost universally recognized as heretical, not to
cover anything up. Even these “gospels” only
give hints of a relationship between Jesus and
Mary Magdalene. The church did not cover up the
truth about Jesus being married to Mary
Magdalene. Rather, the church protected the
truth about Jesus being God in the flesh (John
1:1, 14).
The Da Vinci Code is in reality an attack on the
Person of Jesus Christ. People do not want to
believe that Jesus is God or that He is the Savior,
so they make up falsehoods about Him in order to
create a false Jesus that they can believe in. That
is what The Da Vinci Code is all about—presenting
a false view of who Jesus Christ truly was and
then explaining why this “truth” has been
"hidden" for nearly 2000 years