Debunking the DaVinci Code Book

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FACT: This is false in it’s entirety. Worship of all gods except Yahweh was forbidden. He had, and has, no equals. Female worship is, instead, a practice often found in pagan worship. In fact, the Hebrew language of the Jews does not even have a word for “goddess”.2

[BOOK: “ ‘The Jewish tetragrammaton YHWYH-the sacred name of God-in fact derived from Jehovah, an adrogynous physical union between the masculine Jah and the pre-Habraic name for Eve, Havah”’3

FACT: YHWH or Yahweh, is the sacred name of God. It was and is only spelled with consonants (YHWH). No one really knows how it is pronounced because the vowels where intentionally left out. Jewish rabbis, when they arrive at God’s sacred name while reading the Bible out loud will say “Adonai” meaning “Lord”. Later, rabbis took the consonants from YHWH and the vowels form Adonai and came up with “Jehovah”. Jehovah was derived from YHWH and Adonai, not the other way around.

JESUS AND MARRIAGE

[BOOK: The main premise of the book is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child.]

FACT: No where in the Bible does it mention Jesus being married. While there has often been debate about “what if” Jesus had married and had children, we

find no records whatsoever that He did. No writings of the early church fathers or even any apocryphal works ever blatantly say that Jesus was married. However, Brown quotes up the Apocryphal work, “The Gospel of Philip” to support his case:

“And the companion of the Saviour is Mary Magdalene. Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth. The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to him, “Why do you love her more than all of us?” 4 Philip 1:55b

There are two approaches we can take to this passage. We can tear the passage apart and say how the word “companion” does not mean “wife”. If Mary was Jesus’ wife, the Apostles would not be getting mad at him for loving her. Therefore the word must mean “close friend”. The second approach is to reject the passage altogether. The early church fathers evaluated the book of Philip, found it did not qualify as inspired text, so they rejected it from inclusion in the Bible. I would not use the first approach. Don’t argue over the text; it is not inspired.

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE

[BOOK: “I thought Constantine was a Christian,” Sophie said. “Hardly”, Teabing scoffed. “He was a lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed, too weak to protest. In Constantine’s day, Rome’s official

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