The Da Vinci Code

[The Former DMiller]

Oh, and while the Gnostics were certainly pushed aside by mainline Christianity, that doesn't mean that their ideas are all wrong...

Exactly. Do people dismiss "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" because it was written several centuries after the events it describes? Of course not. It is considered one of the best sources on the collapse of the Roman Empire even though it is based almost entirely on second-hand information. While we can't say that the Gnostic gospels are all accurate we certainly can't dismiss them because they aren't first-hand accounts. It is also difficult to take the four gospels of the New Testament at face value as the writers are obviously biased in their love of Jesus. This isn't to say the Gnostic gospels can be believed or the New Testament is biased, just that everything written about a time period 2000 years ago should be taken with a grain of salt.