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Overview

Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Strobel uses his experience as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune to interview experts about the evidence for Christ from the fields of science, philosophy, and history.

A Seasoned Journalist Chases Down the Biggest Story in History

Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God?

Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools like Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis who are recognized authorities in their fields. Strobel challenges them with questions like How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence exist for Jesus outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event?

Strobel's tough, point-blank questions make this remarkable book read like a captivating, fast-paced novel. But it's not fiction. It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure.

What will your verdict be in The Case for Christ?

Author Biography: Lee Strobel, a former atheist, holds a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School and was an award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune. Currently he is a teaching pastor at Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, CA, where he and his wife live, and a board member of the Willow Creek Association. He is the author of numerous books, including the Gold Medallion winners The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith.

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ISBN-13: 9780310226468
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 140,967
Product dimensions: 5.58 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Lee Strobel tiene una licenciatura en periodismo de la Universidad de Missouri y una maestria en estudio de leyes de la Universidad Yale. Fue el galardonado editor legal del periodico Chicago Tribune y esceptico espiritual hasta el ano 1981. Es autor de exitos de ventas del New York Times de casi veinte libros y ha sido entrevistado por numerosos programas nacionales de television, incluyendo 20/20 de la cadena ABC, Fox News y CNN. Cuatro de sus libros han ganado el premio Medalla de oro y uno de ellos fue el ganador del premio Libro cristiano del ano 2005 (el cual escribio junto a Garry Poole). Lee sirvio como pastor de ensenanza en las Iglesias Willow Creek y Saddleback. Ademas, contribuye como editor y columnista de la revista 'Outreach'. el y su esposa, Leslie, residen en Colorado. Para mas informacion, visite: www.leestrobel.com

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The Case for Christ

By Lee Strobel

Zondervan Publishing Company

Copyright © 2000 Lee Strobel
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0310236533

Chapter One

THE EYEWITNESS
EVIDENCE

Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?

When I first met shy and soft-spoken Leo Carter, he was a seventeen-year-old veteran of Chicago's grittiest neighborhood. His testimony had put three killers in prison. And he was still carrying a .38-caliber slug in his skull-a grisly reminder of a horrific saga that began when he witnessed Elijah Baptist gun down a local grocer.

Leo and a friend, Leslie Scott, were playing basketball when they saw Elijah, then a sixteen-year-old delinquent with thirty arrests on his rap sheet, slay Sam Blue outside his grocery store.

Leo had known the grocer since childhood. "When we didn't have any food, he'd give us some," Leo explained to me in a quiet voice. "So when I went to the hospital and they said he was dead, I knew I'd have to testify about what I saw."

Eyewitness testimony is powerful. One of the most dramatic moments in a trial is when a witness describes in detail the crime that he or she saw and then points confidently toward the defendant as being the perpetrator. Elijah Baptist knew that the only way to avoid prison would be to somehow prevent Leo Carter and Leslie Scott from doing just that.

So Elijah and two of his pals went hunting. Soon they tracked down Leo and Leslie, who were walking down the street with Leo's brother Henry, and they dragged all three at gunpoint to a darkened loading dock nearby.

"I like you," Elijah's cousin said to Leo, "but I've got to do this." With that he pressed a pistol to the bridge of Leo's nose and yanked the trigger.

The gun roared; the bullet penetrated at a slight angle, blinding Leo in his right eye and embedding in his head. When he crumbled to the ground, another shot was fired, this bullet lodging two inches from his spine.

As Leo watched from his sprawled position, pretending he was dead, he saw his sobbing brother and friend ruthlessly executed at close range. When Elijah and his gang fled, Leo crawled to safety.

Somehow, against all odds, Leo Carter lived. The bullet, too pre-carious to be removed, remained in his skull. Despite searing headaches that strong medication couldn't dull, he became the sole eyewitness against Elijah Baptist at his trial for killing grocer Sam Blue. The jurors believed Leo, and Elijah was sentenced to eighty years in prison.

Again Leo was the only eyewitness to testify against Elijah and his two companions in the slayings of his brother and his friend. And once more his word was good enough to land the trio in prison for the rest of their lives.

Leo Carter is one of my heroes. He made sure justice was served, even though he paid a monumental price for it. When I think of eye-witness testimony, even to this day-more than twenty years later-his face still appears in my mind.

TESTIMONY FROM DISTANT TIME

Yes, eyewitness testimony can be compelling and convincing. When a witness has had ample opportunity to observe a crime, when there's no bias or ulterior motives, when the witness is truthful and fair, the climactic act of pointing out a defendant in a courtroom can be enough to doom that person to prison or worse.

And eyewitness testimony is just as crucial in investigating historical matters-even the issue of whether Jesus Christ is the unique Son of God.

But what eyewitness accounts do we possess? Do we have the testimony of anyone who personally interacted with Jesus, who listened to his teachings, who saw his miracles, who witnessed his death, and who perhaps even encountered him after his alleged resurrection? Do we have any records from first-century "journalists" who interviewed eyewitnesses, asked tough questions, and faithfully recorded what they scrupulously determined to be true? Equally important, how well would these accounts withstand the scrutiny of skeptics?

I knew that just as Leo Carter's testimony clinched the convictions of three brutal murderers, eyewitness accounts from the mists of distant time could help resolve the most important spiritual issue of all. To get solid answers, I arranged to interview the nationally renowned scholar who literally wrote the book on the topic: Dr. Craig Blomberg, author of The Historical Reliability of the Gospels.

I knew Blomberg was smart; in fact, even his appearance fit the stereotype. Tall (six feet two) and lanky, with short, wavy brown hair unceremoniously combed forward, a fuzzy beard, and thick, rimless glasses, he looked like the type who would have been valedictorian of his high school (he was), a National Merit Scholar (he was), and a magna cum laude graduate from a prestigious seminary (he was, from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School).

But I wanted someone who was more than just intelligent and educated. I was searching for an expert who wouldn't gloss over nuances or blithely dismiss challenges to the records of Christianity. I wanted someone with integrity, someone who has grappled with the most potent critiques of the faith and who speaks authoritatively but without the kind of sweeping statements that conceal rather than deal with critical issues.

I was told Blomberg was exactly what I was looking for, and I flew to Denver wondering if he could measure up. Admittedly, I had a few doubts, especially when my research yielded one profoundly disturbing fact that he would probably have preferred had remained hidden: Blomberg still holds out hope that his beloved childhood heroes, the Chicago Cubs, will win the World Series in his lifetime.

Frankly, that was enough to make me a bit suspicious of his discernment.

THE FIRST INTERVIEW: CRAIG L. BLOMBERG, PH.D.

Craig Blomberg is widely considered to be one of the country's foremost authorities on the biographies of Jesus, which are called the four gospels. He received his doctorate in New Testament from Aberdeen University in Scotland, later serving as a senior research fellow at Tyndale House at Cambridge University in England, where he was part of an elite group of international scholars that produced a series of acclaimed works on Jesus. For the last dozen years he has been a professor of New Testament at the highly respected Denver Seminary.

Blomberg's books include Jesus and the Gospels; Interpreting the Parables; How Wide the Divide?; and commentaries on the gospel of Matthew and 1 Corinthians. He also helped edit volume six of Gospel Perspectives, which deals at length with the miracles of Jesus, and he coauthored Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. He contributed chapters on the historicity of the gospels to the book Reasonable Faith and the award-winning Jesus under Fire. His memberships include the Society for the Study of the New Testament, Society of Biblical Literature, and the Institute for Biblical Research.

As I expected, his office had more than its share of scholarly volumes stacked on the shelves (he was even wearing a tie emblazoned with drawings of books).

However, I quickly noted that his office walls were dominated not by dusty tomes from ancient historians but by artwork from his young daughters. Their whimsical and colorful depictions of llamas, houses, and flowers weren't haphazardly pinned up as a casual afterthought; they had obviously been treated as prizes-painstakingly matted, carefully framed, and personally autographed by Elizabeth and Rachel themselves. Clearly, I thought to myself, this man has a heart as well as a brain.

Blomberg speaks with the precision of a mathematician (yes, he taught mathematics too, earlier in his career), carefully measuring each word out of an apparent reluctance to tread even one nuance beyond where the evidence warrants. Exactly what I was looking for.

As he settled into a high-back chair, cup of coffee in hand, I too sipped some coffee to ward off the Colorado chill. Since I sensed Blomberg was a get-to-the-point kind of guy, I decided to start my interview by cutting to the core of the issue.

EYEWITNESSES TO HISTORY

"Tell me this," I said with an edge of challenge in my voice, "is it really possible to be an intelligent, critically thinking person and still believe that the four gospels were written by the people whose names have been attached to them?"

Blomberg set his cup of coffee on the edge of his desk and looked intently at me. "The answer is yes," he said with conviction.

Continues...

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Contents Introduction: Reopening the Investigation of a Lifetime PART 1: Examining the Record
1. The Eyewitness Evidence Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?
with Dr. Craig Blomberg
2. Testing the Eyewitness Evidence Do the Biographies of Jesus Stand Up to Scrutiny?
with Dr. Craig Blomberg
3. The Documentary Evidence Were Jesus' Biographies Reliably Preserved for Us?
with Dr. Bruce Metzger
4. The Corroborating Evidence Is There Credible Evidence for Jesus outside His Biographies?
with Dr. Edwin Yamauchi
5. The Scientific Evidence Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?
with Dr. John Mc Ray
6. The Rebuttal Evidence Is the Jesus of History the Same As the Jesus of Faith?
with Dr. Gregory Boyd PART 2: Analyzing Jesus
7. The Identity Evidence Was Jesus Really Convinced That He Was the Son of God?
with Dr. Ben Witherington III
8. The Psychological Evidence Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?
with Dr. Gary Collins
9. The Profile Evidence Did Jesus Fulfill the Attributes of God?
with Dr. D. A. Carson
10. The Fingerprint Evidence Did Jesus — and Jesus Alone — Match the Identity of the Messiah?
with Louis Lapides, M.Div., Th.M.
PART 3: Researching the Resurrection
11. The Medical Evidence Was Jesus' Death a Sham and His Resurrection a Hoax?
with Dr. Alexander Metherell
12. The Evidence of the Missing Body Was Jesus' Body Really Absent from His Tomb?
with Dr. William Lane Craig
13. The Evidence of Appearances Was Jesus Seen Alive after His Death on the Cross?
with Dr. Gary Habermas
14. The Circumstantial Evidence Are There Any Supporting Facts That Point to the Resurrection?
with Dr. J. P. Moreland Conclusion: The Verdict of History What Does the Evidence Establish — And What Does It Mean Today?
List of Citations Notes Index

First Chapter

CHAPTER 12
The Evidence of the Missing Body Candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach flew into the world's busiest airport on a crisp autumn afternoon, stepped into a crowd, and promptly disappeared without a trace. For more than twenty years the mystery of what happened to this red-haired, animal-loving philanthropist has baffled police and journalists alike.
While investigators are convinced she was murdered, they haven't been able to determine the specific circumstances, largely because they've never found her body. Police have floated some speculation, leaked tantalizing possibilities to the press, and even got a judge to declare that a con man was responsible for her disappearance. But absent a corpse, her murder officially remains unsolved. Nobody has ever been charged with her slaying.
The Brach case is one of those frustrating enigmas that keep me awake from time to time as I mentally sift through the sparse evidence and try to piece together what happened. Ultimately it's an unsatisfying exercise; I want to know what happened, and there just aren't enough facts to chase away the conjecture.
Occasionally bodies turn up missing in pulp fiction and real life, but rarely do you encounter an empty tomb. Unlike the case of Helen Brach, the issue with Jesus isn't that he was nowhere to be seen. It's that he was seen, alive; he was seen, dead; and he was seen, alive once more. If we believe the gospel accounts, this isn't a matter of a missing body. No, it's a matter of Jesus still being alive, even to this day, even after publicly succumbing to the horrors of crucifixion so graphically depicted in the preceding chapter.
The empty tomb, as an enduring symbol of the Resurrection, is the ultimate representation of Jesus' claim to being God. The apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:17 that the Resurrection is the very linchpin of the Christian faith: 'If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.'
Theologian Gerald O'Collins put it this way: 'In a profound sense, Christianity without the resurrection is not simply Christianity without its final chapter. It is not Christianity at all.'1
The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.
If it's true. Skeptics claim that what happened to Jesus' body is still a mystery akin to Helen Brach's disappearance - there's not enough evidence, they say, to reach a firm conclusion.
But others assert that the case is effectively closed, because there is conclusive proof that the tomb was vacant on that first Easter Morning. And if you want someone to compellingly present that case, your best bet is to visit with William Lane Craig, widely considered to be among the world's foremost experts on the Resurrection.
The Eleventh Interview: William Lane Craig, Ph.D., D.Th.
I had an unusual perspective the first time I saw Bill Craig in action: I was seated behind him as he defended Christianity before a crowd of nearly eight thousand people, with countless others listening on more than one hundred radio stations across the country.
As moderator of a debate between Craig and an atheist selected by the national spokesman for American Atheists, Inc., I marveled as Craig politely but powerfully built the case for Christianity while simultaneously dismantling the arguments for atheism. From where I was sitting, I could watch the faces of people as they discovered - many for the first time - that Christianity can stand up to rational analysis and rugged scrutiny.
In the end it was no contest. Among those who had entered the auditorium that evening as avowed atheists, agnostics, or skeptics, an overwhelming 82 percent walked out concluding that the case for Christianity had been the most compelling. Forty-seven people entered as nonbelievers and exited as Christians - Craig's arguments for the faith were that persuasive, especially compared with the paucity of evidence for atheism. Incidentally, nobody became an atheist.2
So when I flew down to Atlanta to interview him for this book, I was anxious to see how he'd respond to the challenges concerning the empty tomb of Jesus. He hadn't changed since I had seen him a few years earlier. With his close-cropped black beard, angular features, and riveting gaze, Craig still looks the role of a serious scholar. He speaks in cogent sentences, never losing his train of thought, always working through an answer methodically, point by point, fact by fact.
Yet he isn't a dry theologian. Craig has a refreshing enthusiasm for his work. His pale blue eyes dance as he weaves elaborate propositions and theories; he punctuates his sentences with hand gestures that beckon for understanding and agreement; his voice modulates from near giddiness over some arcane theological point that he finds fascinating to hushed sincerity as he ponders why some scholars resist the evidence that he finds so compelling.
In short, his mind is fully engaged, but so is his heart. When he talks about skeptics he has debated, it isn't with a smug or adversarial tone. He goes out of his way to mention their endearing qualities when he can - this one was a wonderful speaker, that one was charming over dinner.
In the subtleties of our conversation, I sensed that he isn't out to pummel opponents with his arguments; he's sincerely seeking to win over people who he believes matter to God. He seems genuinely perplexed why some people cannot, or will not, recognize the reality of the empty tomb.

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Anonymous

Posted November 2, 2005

Interesting Read

Interesting book if you are a person with an inquiring mind and a detective/investigative-type personality.

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Posted November 14, 2003

Jesus lives

The title of the book 'The Case For Christ' nails down many facts about Christ. I was looking for more facts to help me spark the unbeliever as well as reaffirm my own faith. This book obviously cannot address every concept that its attackers would like to use to discredit its quality however it does present many undeniable facts that support that fact that Jesus lives.

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Anonymous

Posted March 8, 2001

Case? What case?

I picked up this book hoping it would help strengthen my faith and but an end to my doubts. Sadly, the book failed miserablely. Too often, Strobel accepts shady facts, and pushes aside good arguements. I mean he never even attempts to investigate the claims of the Jesus Seminar. He just accepts someone else's views on them. And what about the conflicting stories of the resurection? How Luke puts it in Jerusalem and Mathew puts it in Galilee. Does the book even mention it? Nope. All in all, I found this book extremely lacking.

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A Good Book Regardless Your Religious (or non-religious) Views

In writing my own book about Jesus, I asked from the very beginning, 'Who is this man who claims he talked with God directly? Am I wasting my time following a madman?" "Which god was Jesus experinecing? So many religions and prophets, with so many conflicting claims. which messenger can we trust?"

I do not agree with the concept of God that Lee Strobel has. One can read the Bible and come away with very different perceptions of exactly who/what this God really is. Is he a local God we created when we were ignorant of how the natural world functioned? Is he a product of our superstitions? Was he created within our galaxy? Is God an alien visitor with higher intelligence, just passing through on an intergalactic ship? Did God come into being at the very moment of creation? Or are we part of a multi-verse, where Universes come and go, and all atoms are simply God's box of crayola crayons to be experimented with? What is a soul?

Many questions are not answered in this book. I do not agree with all this author believes in. I do not believe that souls go to heaven or hell, or that all can be forgiven if one just follows the rules: to be Baptised or not, to circumcize or not, to eat the meat but don't worship the cow, or worship the cow but don't eat the meat...so in spite of Strobel's best intentions, we still cannot take everything in the Bible on blind faith. There are simply too many contradictions.

Christianity is a belief system - not a knowledge system. The idea of trying to prove everything occurred in the Bible exactly as it is written is a false foundation because everything that is written can be interpreted in many ways, or written in different ways during different times by different men. If they were all experiencing the same God, they would have written the same answers each time. They didn't.

My own independent research has led me to very different conclusions about the Bible, and so I have become a strange sort of self-created Christian (with Buddhist underpinnings) who believes that Jesus is unique and had something important to say, but not necessarily messages that we are correctly understanding.

I think this is a well-thought out and researched book worthy of reading if only because we will learn more about the life of Jesus.

I spent years in India and Central Asia to follow the trail of Jesus there. I came away from the experience with a profound new respect and admiration for the man Jesus. I may not have arrived at the same conclusions as Lee Strobel about the meaning behind Jesus' life and death, but we have both come away from our investigations with a deep and abiding love and respect for the man Jesus.

Christianity is the largest religion on earth, and is the fastest growing. This book will be an affirmation of faith for many, and an interesting biography about Jesus for non-Christian readers.

I do recommend it.
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RDCJ1

Posted October 4, 2009

Truth cannot be denied!!!

This is a wonderful read - full of truth, with every detail backed-up with tangible evidence that can easily be confirmed. This book is a true compliment to anyone's faith in Jesus Christ as well as those who have not yet come to trust Jesus as their Savior.

If I were not a believer in Jesus, I'd imagine this book would have been the inspiration for me knowing the truth.
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Anonymous

Posted May 4, 2008

One sided but good

Strobel does a good job of presenting the evidence for Christ his book is a very useful tool to have. However, he completely leaves out the opposing arguement giving a useful yet one sided story. This makes the book far less valuable than it could be. Obviously Strobel thought that Christianity was far more convincing than his original atheism (I agree) but he never deconstructed the atheistic arguement. Perhaps he was writing this book to atheists especially (some of the group study questions at the end of each chapter suggests this) it is sold with the title The Case for Christ and in a real criminal trial both sides are considered.

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Anonymous

Posted November 27, 2005

Christainity has much more to offer as Proof than this:(

As A former atheist I would have to recomend looking at better sources for proofe of Christs Diety. Although this book was not terriably written it was not 'a Slam Dunk' 'I don't Have enough Faith to be an Atheist' was much better written, however I would urge any former atheists(like myself) to look to more solid proofs for the existance of the one true God and his son Christ who died for our sins.

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Anonymous

Posted June 17, 2000

A Must Read.

For Christians, this book will only make you stronger in the faith. And for those that are skeptical against Christianity, then this will definitely challenge you with some difficult questions concerning the truth in Jesus Christ. The evidence is strong as you hear from 13 biblical experts. Check it out.
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Anonymous

Posted June 11, 2000

AWESOME BOOK!

Can't rave about this book enough. It challenges the truth of Christ. The author was at one point a big sceptic of Christ. He wanted the facts. Well this book is about the facts! Its fair and its to the point, its GREAT for both who are saved and for those who want 'proof'. Great book to give to your friends and a must have in EVERYBODY's library.
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Anonymous

Posted April 21, 2000

Don't Confuse This With Honest Investigation

II met Lee Strobel at a dinner party the other night. First, he isn't a journalist. He's a pastor at a local church in Orange County, and this book is a statement of his personal religious beliefs. What bothered me was his constant proclamations that he was asking hard questions about the reliability of Scripture. No, a pastor does not ask hard questions that might undermine the religion he serves. For example, the question of prophecy. Strobel said Jesus was the only individual in history who matched the fingerprint of the Messiah revealed by Old Testament prophecies. But if you look at those prophecies, Strobel is wrong. The first prophecy that comes to mind is being born in Bethlehem, the city of David, which is quoted in Chapter 2 of Matthew, but go back and read the prophecy. It says a man who was born in Bethlehem will rule in Israel, and goes on to describe how this ruler will destroy the cities of Israel's enemies. When did Jesus rule in Israel? When did he destroy his enemies' cities? Herod (allegedly) killed children because he feared they would grow up to satisfy this prophecy, but if the only prophecy was being born in Bethlehem, I don't think he would have bothered. Jesus did not satisfy this prophecy, but Strobel quoted Lapides as saying the odds against Jesus satisfying the prophecies were one million billion to one. The reader should always be aware that Strobel is writing the case FOR Christ, and he either (a)hasn't studied the apologetics arguments that suggest the two conflicting stories of Jesus being born in Bethlehem (Matthew and Luke) were added to make it appear that Jesus satisfied this prophecy, or (b) Strobel is dishonest enough to try to fool people who don't know much about Biblical prophecy. Either way, the best thing for Strobel would be to engage in a debate with an opponent who would force him to stop glossing over the problems of Christianity. For example, Jesus became famous as an exorcist, a man who talked to invisible demons and the demons obeyed his orders. It seems inescapable that Jesus had his friends (stooges) pretend to be possessed so he could exorcize the demons in front of an audience. If you want to take the story literally, as Strobel does, you have to believe there are invisible 'unclean spirits' that take possession of people and who know Jesus by name.

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Anonymous

Posted April 22, 2000

All the Pieces Fit, It's enjoyable, uplifting, and solid!!

Not withstanding the desparate attempt to slam by one review here, this is Solid. Strobel does show the evidence is only explained by the truth that Jesus was God incarnate, died and rose again. All the 'alternative explanations' do not stand up to scrutiny. This is an important book for believer and nonbeliever alike. You be the judge of what is true. As a physician I know that if one diagnosis explains all the symtoms, you don't try to find a different disease for each symptom. The case is definitely made for the Truth of the Gospel.
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Anonymous

Posted December 17, 1999

God is more real than ever

I've always known there was a God through the fingerprints He left on creation. This was never more real to me than after reading this book. Though God indeed requires of us faith, it's amazing the irrefutable marks He's left leaving little room to doubt. This books leads you right into the lap of Christ utilizing the 'scientific & historical' evidence only evolutionists are supposed to be able to use ;-)
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Jesus lives

Case? What case?

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