Gospel of Thomas, Jesus
seems to pronounce that
Mary must be made male to
enter heaven.
Legend. The idea that Mary
Magdalene bore Jesus's child,
a folk legend for centuries,
was given a boost in the
1960s by Frenchman Pierre
Plantard, who forged
documents purporting to
show that that this child was
the ancestor of the French
Merovingian kings. Plantard
later recanted under oath. The
1982 book Holy Blood, Holy
Grail popularized Plantard's
theories and added that
Mary's womb was the Grail.
Author Dan Brown lifted
much of his conspiracy
material from this book, but
Ehrman slams it. "Of the
hundreds of professional
New Testament scholars
whom I personally
know...there is not a single
one, to my knowledge, who
finds the claims of the book
Joy feelings magazine
to be historically credible,"
he writes.
The Truth, Dan Brown,
and The Da Vinci Code
By Richard Abanes
Author of The Truth Behind
the Da Vinci Code
CBN.com – The Da Vinci
Code by Dan Brown is one of
the most intriguing, yet
disturbing, books to ever hit
bestseller lists. It has
entertained millions of fiction
fans and will probably
continue to do so thanks to
director Ron Howard's
motion picture adaptation of
it starring Tom Hanks.
Unfortunately, the saga
boldly attacks Christian
beliefs relating to the
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