Just like the bible code books now i think. How many millions of dollars has been made from a fraud. A novel of sorts purported to be true.

So you are proposing that Da Vinci painted a she male on purpose because he had the presence of mind to project into the future that it would cause a lot of innuendo and lucrative speculation? Couldn't they have rejected the painting right then and stoned him to death or at the very least not paid up? Im assuming he was commissioned for this work?

While you won't find this one in the Bible..

"To find Euler's Gamma of three,
Integrate to infinity
from zero, dx
x-squared on exp(x),
Or three bang divided by three." - M.M. Bishop

:)

-Kerry O.

Whatever he did he either knew nothing of the bible or he painted a misguided picture. Either way it is wrong and the religious community just takes it like it is fact putting it in thier houses and churches. It is a disgrace to the scriptures.
It is just like Dante's Inferno play painters picked up on and all of a sudden we have a fiery Hell where sinners spend eternity being tortured.
It has always been the religious authorities take what they want promote it and if it catches on then decades or centuries later it is church doctrine. go to a Baptist service they are fire and brimstone they are obessed with it. They preach Hell not Love.

These things are works of misguided men mostly..Shalom..Miles

Well what IF John actually looked that way? Maybe he was bisexual. You have to keep in mind that prior to Christianity and the hatred and fear of homosexuality, most humans probably enjoyed both sexes and quite frequently. We know the Romans and Greeks did of course. The repression of sexuality would have been new, strange and hostile like everything else.

non of that applies at all. I am just saying it is a fact by the biblical account that they did not sit at a Table and he was with his disciples.

Okay so your problem with Da Vinci's painting is not that John looks like a flamin fruit loop or else a woman (dining with JC that evening) and more just that they are pictured seated in chairs at a table?

no he had no idea what John looked like. He painted a fantacy picture period that really has nothing to do with the bible. My biggest gripe would be how religion latched onto it like it is the real thing

I am assuming you (OP) were talking about the codes in the pages like a word puzzle that spell words or phrases.

It is ludicrious.

Any book can be done this way. All you have to do is study a page long enough and you can find words and phrases. It is not the easiest thing to do since they can be backwards and forwards and diagonal, etc....... but it can be done.

Well I would assume Da Vinci was using "some" point of reference meaning he was instructed to paint JC and the disciples in that manner for whatever reason. We dont know what he was commissioned to do exactly but he was paid for his time. No complaints. Perhaps they said paint Mary Magdalene and so he did. They certainly did not reject the completed project as it is now famous.

Thats true and few care now either

I personally dont care except if you count there is only 12 and there is supposed to be 12 disciples. I have heard that effeminate one is probably John. Yet it clearly looks like a woman. If it was a woman then it would have been likely to be Mary Magdalene because well, you know where I am going with this. If those two were "close" which is natural and he knew his days might be numbered, perhaps he asked for her to be there or someone asked that she be included.