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Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Claims

Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Claims. So dark the con of man!. Dan Brown Claims …. “All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.”. Dan Brown Claims …. But are they?. Some Reviewers Claim …. “His research is impeccable”

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Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Claims

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  1. Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Claims So dark the con of man!

  2. Dan Brown Claims … “All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.”

  3. Dan Brown Claims … But are they?

  4. Some Reviewers Claim … “His research is impeccable” --New York Daily News

  5. Some Reviewers Claim … But is it?

  6. The Art of Leonardo

  7. Madonna of the Rocks

  8. The Last Supper

  9. Holy Grail = Holy Bloodline ?

  10. Dan Brown claims …

  11. Merovech Clovis Merovingian Dynasty

  12. Merovech Childeric I Clovis I Chlothar I Sigebert I Childebert II Theudebert II of Austrasia Emma of Austrasia Earconbert of Kent Egbert I of Kent Wihtred of Kent Aethelbert II of Kent Daughter of Kent Egbert of Wessex Ethelwulf of Wessex Alfred the Great Aefthryth of England Arnulf I of Flanders Merovingian Blood

  13. Baldwin II of Flanders Arnulf II of Flanders Baldwin IV of Flanders Baldwin V of Flanders Maud of Flanders Adela of Normandy Stephen of Blois Eustace IV of Boulogne Eustachie of Champagne Beatrice of St. Pol William III of Ponthieu Marie of Ponthieu Joan of Dammartin Eleanor of Castile Joan of Acre Margaret de Clare Amy de Gaveston Alice de Driby Merovingian Blood

  14. William Mallory Margaret Mallory Mary Corbet Richard Charlton Ann Charlton Elizabeth Grosvenor Edward Bulkeley Frances Bulkeley Olive Welby Joseph Farwell Hannah Farwell Samuel Woods Hannah Woods Zadock Wheeler Uzziel Wheeler Harriet Wheeler Julius Fernando Ross Anna Dutton Ross Rebecca Ann Taylor Robert Ernest Cork William Joseph Cork Merovingian Blood

  15. Dan Brown on Opus Dei Albino Monk Assassins?

  16. Dan Brown Claims … “I worked very hard to create a fair and balanced depiction of Opus Dei.”

  17. St. Josemaria Escriva

  18. Villa Tevere, Rome Opus Dei Dan Brown: “the new Opus Dei World Headquarters … is located at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City.” Murray Hill Place, NY

  19. Basics of Opus Dei • A life of prayer and contemplation, with frequent spiritual direction and confession • Study of the Catholic faith • Bearing the cross • Sanctification of ordinary life • Through excellence in your profession • And spreading of Gospel values through the lay apostolate

  20. Cilice and Discipline Corporal Mortification

  21. St. Josemaria on Mortification • The world admires only spectacular sacrifice, because it does not realize the value of sacrifice that is hidden and silent. • If you don't deny yourself you will never be a soul of prayer. • Don't say: 'That person gets on my nerves.' Think: 'That person sanctifies me.‘ • Many who would willingly let themselves be nailed to a Cross before the astonished gaze of a thousand onlookers cannot bear with a christian spirit the pinpricks of each day! Think, then, which is the more heroic.

  22. Others who used it …

  23. John Allen on Opus Dei “If you want a guiding metaphor for Opus Dei, … think of it as the Guinness Extra Stout of the Catholic Church. It’s a strong brew, definitely an acquired taste, and clearly not for everyone.”

  24. http://holycrosschapel.org For More about Opus Dei … http://opusdei.org

  25. Constantine Creator of Christianity?

  26. Fact: Not a war between two parties, but a bloody persecution instigated by Emperor Diocletian. He divided the empire, generals feuded, Constantine triumphed—made Christianity legal. Dan Brown Claims … “Christians and pagans began warring, and the conflict grew to such proportions that it threatened to rend Rome in two.” Constantine blended the two religions.

  27. Fact: “Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead.” St. Justin Martyr, ca. 150 AD. Dan Brown Claims … “Originally, … Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan’s veneration day of the sun.”

  28. Dan Brown Claims … • Fact: • Muratorian Canon gives basic list of NT books, 170-200 AD. • Irenaeus, writing at the same time: “The Gospels could not possibly be either more or less in number than they are (four).” Cites in Adv. Haer. all NT books except: Philemon, II Peter, III John, and Jude. “The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great.”

  29. Dan Brown Claims … We should trust the Gnostic gospels that were excluded from the canon.

  30. As Time Goes By From the Passion of Jesus to … • Epistles of Paul • 20 years • First Gospel • 35 years • End of NT • 65 years • Gnostic Gospels • 100 to 300 years 1986: Challenger 1972: Watergate 1941: Pearl Harbor 1906: SF Earthquake 1706: Franklin Born

  31. Dan Brown Claims … Before Constantine, “Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet. … Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.”

  32. The eternal Word, through whom all things were made (John 1:1-3 ) Jesus is Kyrios (Phil 2:11, 1 Cor 12:3) The eternal Son, through whom he created the world. The angels worship him (Heb 1:1, 6) Before all things, created all things, in him all things hold together (Col 1:15) “Before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58) “He claimed to be the Son of God” (John 19:7) He shall judge the living and the dead (2 Tim 4:1) Scripture on Jesus’ Divinity

  33. Dan Brown Claims … Constantine’s new Bible “omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ’s human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.”

  34. He emptied himself, humbled himself to death (Philippians 2:5-11) He shared our flesh and blood, like us “in every respect; he suffered, and so can sympathize with our weakness (Heb 2:14-18; 4:14-16) Those who deny the incarnation are antichrist (1 John:4:1-3) The Word was made flesh (John 1:14) He was hungry (Matt 4:2) He wept (John 11:35) He died (Matt 27:50, Mark 15:37, Luke 23:46, John 19:30) After his resurrection he could be touched and could eat (Luke 24:39-43; John 20:27) Scripture on Jesus’ Humanity

  35. Dan Brown Claims … We could learn a lot from Gnosticism.

  36. What Is the Gnostic “Gospel”? • Matter is evil, a prison • Created by a lesser deity • Jesus only appeared to be human • He was opposed to the deity who created the world—and who inspired the Old Testament • He taught a way to be freed from this prison • Hidden knowledge, known only to a special few • Spirituality: either ascetical or libertine

  37. More Dan Brown Claims … • 6th Century: St. Gregory the Great preached about the Scriptural account; Gregory of Tours says she went to Ephesus. • 10th Century: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene begins to be celebrated on July 22 in Constantinople • 11th Century: Feast spreads through the West • 13th Centuy: The Golden Legend; relics sought after. “the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene”

  38. Titian, ca. 1530 Fresco, 1317 More Dan Brown Claims … “the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene”

  39. Magdalen College, Oxford Founded 1458 Magdalene College, Cambridge Founded 1428 More Dan Brown Claims … “the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene”

  40. More Dan Brown Claims … From the First Century to today, the Scripture record bears witness to the life and faith of Mary Magdalene. “the Church outlawed speaking of the shunned Mary Magdalene”

  41. Dan Brown Claims … The Catholic Church burned 5,000,000 women as witches in 300 years, including “all female scholars,” after publication of Malleus Maleficarum in 1486. Fact: Maybe one per cent of that figure killed, through various means, by Catholics, Protestants, and secular authorities.

  42. Dan Brown Claims … Fact: “Jehovah” was formed by adding the vowel points from Adonai or Elohim to YHWH, so that readers who know to substitute the word Adonai or Elohim when they came upon YHWH. “The Jewish tetragrammaton YHWH—the sacred name of God—in fact derived from Jehovah, an androgynous physical union between the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah.”

  43. Dan Brown Claims … • Fact: • Lev. 16: Only the high priest enters the Holy of Holies, and then only once a year. • Deut. 5:The Lord is God, the Lord is one. • Isa. 45:5-6: “I am the Lord, there is none else.” • Shekinah appears in medieval Judaism as a term for God’s presence in the temple. “… the early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex. In the Temple, no less. Early Jews believed that the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Temple housed not only God but also His powerful female equal, Shekinah.”

  44. Fact: Papal residence and administration was at the Lateran until after the Avignon “captivity.” Brown is about 1000 years too early. Dan Brown Claims … The Church had a “new Vatican power base” in Constantine’s day.

  45. Why Is It Popular? • Fast-paced story • Intriguing mystery • Church is the bad guy • Church is hiding something • “You shall be as gods”

  46. Our Response Proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. … For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. 2 Timothy 4:2-3

  47. Our Response Guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge. 1 Timothy 6:20 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. 1 John 2:24

  48. Our Response We proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:23

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