I recently moved this blog to a new host and now it has a new location and a change of address. You used to be able to get to the front page by using answersforthefaith.com/apologetica or apologetica.us ; now the only the official address is: http://apologetica.us/ If you have linked to some of my articles or […]

By Hank Hanegraaff and Paul L. Maier (Wheaton,Ill.: Tyndale House Pub.,Inc., 2004, 79 pgs) This is an excellent book for dealing with the myriad of historical problems presented in the novel by Dan Brown.  In Part One, Dr. Paul Maier points out all the major historical/religious problems and challenges made in The Da Vinci Code.  […]

Sony/Columbia Pictures, 2006, Directed by: Ron Howard; Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen      The long awaited ‘block-buster’ movie is finally here, but is it really deserving of the title, or is it a ‘bust’, or maybe something in between?  Maybe it is just ‘good’ or ‘very good’.  The 40 million best-seller book created an […]

    There are hundreds of historical mistakes made by the Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code.  None of it would be particularly important in a work of ‘fiction’,  except that Brown claims that all the background material is ‘true’.  He continues to maintain that view even in the face of numerous  assaults by historians, […]

    The defining test for ‘Judas’ is the content evaluation test.  The following questions must be applied to the document in order to authenticate it and to identify its place in history:     1.  What does the ‘Gospel of Judas’ actually teach?: