they were hunted by both police and a member of opus dei , who here had been hired to kill them before they uncovered a secret which the catholic church had supposedly been covering up since its inception : that jesus never believed himself to be god ; that the four gospels which were chosen by the church were only selected in order to further an agenda of male dominance ; that , in fact , jesus had been romantically involved with mary magdalene -- together they had given birth to a daughter ; and that the true gospel had been suppressed by the council of nicea in 325 .