The Da Vinci Code’s Top 10 Errors

Editor’s note: The full version of “The Top 10 Da Vinci Code Distortions” is available from Concerned Women for America. See also the accompanying HUMAN EVENTS Top 10 list.

Serious Christians will see through the many lies and historical fictions that Dan Brown plants throughout the best-selling book The Da Vinci Code, but millions will believe that this profoundly dishonest work contains at least some “truth” about Jesus and the church.

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The film version is opening in theaters on May 19. Christians should avoid the movie and thus avoid rewarding Hollywood for blaspheming their Lord, but they also should be equipped with answers to the most dangerous misconceptions.

Dan Brown is peddling one of the oldest known and easily discredited heresies - Gnosticism - and his claims are refuted by the rich history of Christian writing, beginning with the Gospels themselves.

Several books expose the many factual errors and ludicrous assertions in The Da Vinci Code, and the brief list of problems with Brown’s book here is the tip of the iceberg.

1) CLAIM: Jesus was merely a man, not God. Brown says that the “pagan” Roman emperor Constantine, for the purpose of consolidating his power, created the “myth” that Jesus was resurrected after being crucified. (231-234).

ANSWER: Constantine, who converted to Christianity and ended Rome’s persecution of Christians, convened the Council of Nicea in 325, but only to sort out differences among church leaders, all of whom believed Jesus was divine. Early church historians referred routinely to Christ’s divinity, including Ignatius (105 A.D.) and Clement (150 A.D.).