Error #2: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels were the "earliest Christian records"

Dan Bown's novel mentioned that the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels were the "earliest Christian records". Bible historians say that this is not the case. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 and were dated from 250 BC to AD 100. However, these documents have virtually nothing to do with Christianity but with various Jewish groups, rituals and ideas before and during the time of Christ.

The Gnostic gospels offer a twisted and heretical version of the Christian faith, but they didn't come into existence until about a century or more later after the death of Christ. The earliest Christian records are the writings of the New Testament.