WAS THERE A DA VINCI CONSPIRACY - PART 2

                                            WAS  THERE  A 
DA    VINCI CONSPIRACY

 PART 2

(copied from 
 Y-Jesus.com)

The Jesus Conspiracy

The Da Vinci Code begins with the murder of  a
French Museum curator named Jaques Sauniere.
A scholarly Harvard professor and a beautiful  French cryptologist  are commissioned to decipher a message left by the curator before his death.
The message turns out to reveal the most profound conspiracy in the history of humankind: a cover up of  the true message of Jesus Christ by a  secret arm of the Roman Catholic Church called Opus Dei.

Before his death, the curator had evidence that could disprove the deity of Christ. Although, (according to the plot) the Church tried  to suppress the evidence, great thinkers  and artists have  planted clues everywhere, in paintings, such as the Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper by 
Da Vinci, in the architecture of  cathedrals, even 
in Disney cartoons.

The book's main claims are these:
*  The Roman emperor, Constantine conspired
     to deify Jesus Christ.
*   Constantine personally selected the Books of
      The New Testament.
*   The Gnostic gospels were banned by men to
      suppress women.
*   Jesus and Mary Magdalene were secretly
     married and had a child.
*   Thousands of secret documents disprove key
      points of Christianity.

Brown reveals his conspiracy through the book's
fictional expert, British royal historian, Sir Leigh
Teabing. Presented as an old wise scholar Teabing
reveals to cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, that at the
council of Nicaea in a.d. 325, "many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon,"
including the divinity of Jesus.

"Until that moment in history"  he says  "Jesus
was viewed, by His followers  as a mortal
prophet....... a great and powerful man but a man nonetheless."

Neveu is shocked "Not the
Son of God ?" she asks.

Teabing explains "Jesus' establishment as the
Son of God was officially proposed and voted on
by the Council of Nicaea."

"Hold on. You are saying that Jesus' divinity was the result of a vote?" 

"A relatively close vote at that," Teabing tells the stunned cryptologist.

So, according to Teabing, Jesus was not regarded as God until the Council of Nicaea in a.d. 325, when the real records of Jesus were alledgedly
banned and destroyed. Thus, according to the theory, the entire foundation of Christianity rests upon a lie.

The Da Vinci Code has sold its story well, drawing comments  from readers such as "if it were not true it could not have been published!"
Another said he would "never set foot in a church again." A reviewer of the book praised it for its
"impeccable research"

Pretty convincing for a fictional work.
next post 4th April