The Da Vinci Con: 
    Fact and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code

It's Just a Novel (Movie)

2. Story of The Da Vinci Code: Historical Secret

3. Leonardo’s Last Supper 

4. Derivation of 'Holy Grail'

5. Mary Magdalene in the Bible

6. Priory of Sion

6a. Opus Dei

7. Questions of Jesus’s True Identity

8. Non-Christian Sources

9. Christian Sources: Biblical Texts

10. Other Apostolic Texts

11. St. Ignatius  of Antioch – AD 110

12. "Alternate" Gospels: Gospel of Peter (c. AD 130)

13. St. Justin, Martyr – AD 151

14. St. Irenaeus of Lyon – AD189

15. "Alternate" Christianities

16. Gnostic Scriptures

17. The ‘Muratorian’ Canon – c. AD 200

18. Constantine

19. Council of Nicaea - AD 325

20. St. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea (c. AD 330)

21. Constantine’s Bibles

22. Codex Sinaiticus

23. Closing the Canon

24. Philosophical Issues: Diversity of Christianities

25. Philosophical Issues: Subjectivism of Belief

26. Theological Issue: Was Jesus married?

27. Other Historical Claims

"Alternate" Gospels: Gospel of Peter (c. AD 130)

• Taught Docetism (from Greek dokeo: to seem): Jesus was fully and completely divine (a lesser god), who merely appeared to be human, only seemed to suffer and to die.

"And the Lord cried out, saying, My power, my power, thou hast forsaken me. And when he had said it he was taken up. . . . And then they drew out the nails from the hands of the Lord. . . ." The one who cries out is taken up, and then nails are drawn from the body left behind.

• Jesus’ death and resurrection are symbolic of spiritual enlightenment, though reported as literally witnessed.

"[T]hree men come forth from the tomb, and two of them supporting one, and a cross following them: and of the two the head reached unto the heaven, but the head of him that was led by them overpassed the heavens. And they heard a voice from the heavens, saying, Thou hast preached to them that sleep. And a response was heard from the cross, Yea."

Serapion, Bishop of Antioch (c. AD 150) condemns this text by name: "On the So-called Gospel of Peter" and forbids its use in worship.

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