In Depth Analysis

Jesus Christ — An Elaborate Scam or the Real Deal?

Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code presented a series of striking claims: that Jesus was merely a mortal prophet with a surviving bloodline, that his divinity was invented by a political vote at the Council of Nicaea, and that the Bible as we know it was compiled to suit a political agenda.

Scratch the surface of these claims, however, and they collapse under basic historical scrutiny. The twelve central assertions of the book — from the founding of the Priory of Sion to the demonization of Mary Magdalene — are each built on speculation rather than documented history.

The companion eBook addresses each of these twelve claims individually, refuting them point by point with the historical record.