Dan Brown's best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, makes a number of false statements about Jesus Christ and the history of Christianity. Yet the story is so compelling that many readers believe it is true. This handy concise chart answers the 20 most important questions people have about this novel. Four reproducible worksheets on the back include--

1. A Leader's Guide for teaching church groups and Bible studies.
2. Three handouts for people in the class. Topics include the authority of Scripture, Gnosticism, and the biblical view of sex.

Questions that are answered--

• Was the recognition of Jesus as God really the result of a vote of bishops?
• Were the New Testament Gospels edited and embellished by the emperor Constantine, to make Jesus appear - Was Jesus “a mortal prophet, … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless"?
• Is there any evidence that Jesus married Mary Magdalene?
• What about The Gospel of Philip and The Gospel of Mary Magdalene?
• Is the Bible a product of man or of God?
• Was the New Testament, as we know it, compiled and edited by men who possessed “a political agenda … to solidify their own power base"?
• Was the emperor Constantine the chief player in the canonization process?
• Did Constantine commission and finance “a new bible which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ's human traits and embellished those gospels that made him godlike"?
• Are the Nag Hammadi and Dead Sea scrolls “the earliest Christian records"?
• Were more than 80 gospels considered for inclusion in the New Testament?
• After Constantine's Bibles were compiled, were “earlier gospels … outlawed, gathered up, and burned"?
• What is “Q"?
• Was Jesus “the original feminist"?
• Is sex a “spiritual act" in which one may find the “spark of divinity"?
• Did the church recast sex as “a shameful act"?
• Did ancient Jews and Christians experience the divine through “ritualistic sex"?
• Does the holy name of God, YHWH, imply a union between a masculine and a feminine deity?
• Was Shekinah the “powerful female equal" of God, worshiped alongside YHWH in the Old Testament?
• Did the established church know the whereabouts of the Holy Grail and use “horrific methods" to keep this knowledge hidden?
• Is the Holy Grail actually a symbol of Mary Magdalene?
• Why does the quest for the Holy Grail continue to capture people's imaginations?

Wall chart is 19" x 26" and is laminated.

• Publisher: Rose Publishing
• Size: 19" x 26"

Rose Publishing, Inc. publishes full-color easy-to-use Bible reference materials, including Bible charts, Bible maps, Bible timelines and biblical reference pamphlets for pastors, Bible study leaders, New Member Classes, and small groups. Rose Publishing specializes in graphics-rich Bible teaching aids. Its mission is to make Bible and Christian topics easy to understand and more interesting.