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The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel
5.0
Even for being 25 years old, this book provides a comprehensive and compelling argument for Jesus being the Son of God as claimed by the Bible.
The ideas he digs into are complex, and Strobel does not shy away from nuance. However, he followed a very clear organization, and I never felt like we were trudging through weeds, chasing rabbits, or out of site from the trail.
The presentation of an investigative journalist digging out the evidence in the same way that a court of law would was very clever!
There was clearly a great deal of research that went into identifying the arguments against Christianity, in addition to the author’s own skepticisms, and we get those arguments as he poses them to the Christian scholars to refute. At first blush, it may seem like he only sought out Christian sources of the information. He didn’t- he compiled a very long list of atheist arguments from a lot of sources by non-believers.
Additionally, the author frequently pauses to insert bits of his own research beyond the interviews. These side notes are clear and lend a lot of credibility.
Obviously, I was already a believer going into this book. But I agree with Strobel that the historical, archeological, and theological evidence, that he very clearly articulated, can only be explained by Jesus’s burial and resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins.
The ideas he digs into are complex, and Strobel does not shy away from nuance. However, he followed a very clear organization, and I never felt like we were trudging through weeds, chasing rabbits, or out of site from the trail.
The presentation of an investigative journalist digging out the evidence in the same way that a court of law would was very clever!
There was clearly a great deal of research that went into identifying the arguments against Christianity, in addition to the author’s own skepticisms, and we get those arguments as he poses them to the Christian scholars to refute. At first blush, it may seem like he only sought out Christian sources of the information. He didn’t- he compiled a very long list of atheist arguments from a lot of sources by non-believers.
Additionally, the author frequently pauses to insert bits of his own research beyond the interviews. These side notes are clear and lend a lot of credibility.
Obviously, I was already a believer going into this book. But I agree with Strobel that the historical, archeological, and theological evidence, that he very clearly articulated, can only be explained by Jesus’s burial and resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins.