Synopsis;
If you were a journalist, how would you handle a news story so big it would utterly eclipse all other world events? How thorough would your investigation be? How many hard-hitting questions would you ask? How carefully would you consult with top experts to get detailed, accurate answers?
Lee Strobel knows firsthand. It was as an award-winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune and an avowed atheist that he first investigated the greatest news story of all -- the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Now, in The Case for Christ, he presents compelling evidence and expert testimony for the claims of Christianity. As a seasoned journalist with a Yale law background, Strobel systematically tracks down his leads and asks the blunt, tough questions you would want to ask -- questions that can make or break the Christian faith. He refuses contrived, simplistic answers. Instead, he pieces together hard facts through interviews with a dozen of the country's top scholars.
Written in the style of a blockbuster investigative report, The Case for Christ is a provocative and spellbinding read, marshaling expert testimony and persuasive evidence.
With unerring instincts, Strobel ferrets out:
Historical evidence: Do we possess reliable documents concerning the life, teachings, and resurrection of Jesus? Scientific Evidence: Is there archaeological substantiation for the historical accounts about Jesus? Did Jesus perform miracles?
Psychiatric Evidence: Did Jesus really claim to be God? What evidence is there that he fits God's profile?
Fingerprint Evidence: What does prophecy have to say about Jesus? Other Evidence: Jesus' death, the missing body, eyewitness accounts, and claims of personal encounters.
The Case for Christ reads like a captivating, fast-paced novel. But, it's not fiction. It's a riveting journey to the truth about the most remarkable event in history: the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And it's a revealing, personal testimony to his power to transform people yet today -- even the most case-hardened, cynical journalist.
Thanks for pinging me to the thread. I really have no comment on this article, though. I have always recognized the influence of religion on society, and would agree that it generally has a positive effect.
Christianity has done a fair job of influencing society for good...at least in recent years. There have been times, however, when the influence was not so positive. Even today, we can see the remnants of those times in Northern Ireland.
Overall, though, it has provided a center of belief that has held people more or less together. I wonder, though, whether that can last. Christianity, in the past couple hundred years, has fractionated itself into a vast multitude of sects and denominations, each believing that it has the correct interpretation of Christianity.
We see this every day here on Free Republic, and even here in the Religion topic. Even though the Religion Moderator does a fine job of keeping the dissension among Christians to a low roar, I'm alarmed at the number of posts that discount one denomination or another as somehow not "true" Christianity.
It is a shame, and it is divisive. I'm sure it's not what Jesus would have taught.
For me, as an outsider, but a former believer, there is a core to Jesus' teachings that should suffice to unite all Christians. It used to, I think, mostly. These days, I am not sure.
I'm sure someone will come along now and ask me, in either a nasty or reasonable way, what right I have to even discuss Christianity, since I am an atheist. Well...I've been studying Christianity (along with other religions) all my life. It is the most successful of all modern religions, reaching worldwide. Islam is probably the second most successful.
Christians should unite, despite their differences, it seems to me. Islam has far less sectarianism in it. It is that unity that makes it such a dangerous enemy.