The Da Vinci Code

[A Black Falcon]

Gnostic texts were surpressed, which is why their reemergence over the past 50 years or so has been interesting... the Gospel of Thomas, the Gopel of Judas, the Gospel of Mary... heavily Gnostic... (oh yeah, and in reality, the Gospels were written by other people later, not the people in the title, to the best of my knowledge... both those Gnostic Gospels and the ones in the Bible. I don't think any of them were written down (at least in the form we know for sure!) during the lifetimes of the people in their titles...)

Not sure about that though, I'd have to look into it.

Anyway, Gnostics would probably say that their idea of Jesus (focusing on him as a teacher and such, and not on the resurrection-and-afterlife stuff) was closer to what he actually was, but who knows. It's not like there's an impartial account.