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.  [...]

An Extensive and Scholarly Evaluation of Dr. Ehrman’s work: “MISQUOTING JESUS: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why”, by Bart D. Ehrman, (San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005, 242 pgs.) Dr. Ehrman is a noted New Testament textual scholar.  His accomplishments are extensive, and he comes to the table with incredible academic abilities and [...]

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?: 

     The question of authenticity for the ‘Gospel of Judas’ can be addressed in a number of different ways.       1. If we ask, is the manuscript that was found a genuine copy of the ‘Gospel’?  The answer is Yes.  The scientific evidence seems to prove that the manuscript is a 4th century copy of the [...]

     During the National Geographic documentary on the ‘Gospel of Judas’, shown Sunday night (National Geographic Channel), several of the scholars, including Bart Ehrman & Elaine Pagels, made the claim that the four NT Gospels may have led to the holocaust.  With scenes from the Nazi death camps as a backdrop, these scholars explained how the historical linkage of [...]

The history of this manuscript reads like a story from “Raiders of The Lost Ark”, but the contents are no surprise to Bible Scholars & historians of early Christianity. It is always interesting to observe how news like this ‘discovery’ is handled by the secular MSM. It is so predictable that the ‘Gospel of Judas’ [...]

   Lock all the doors of the Churches, turn off the lights in all the Synagogues, there was no creator after all. Scientists have found the missing link in Canada–and it was a fish?  According to Per Ahlberg, evolutionary biologist:  “This is what our ancestors looked like when they began to leave the water.”     A Monkey [...]