If the central events of Jesus’s life weren’t contested in the years after his death, there’s no reason to question them today. Whereas Strobel once thought the gospels were legends concocted by biased authors, his conversation with Craig Blomberg, a scholar of the New Testament, confirms that the gospels bear all the markings of trustworthy eyewitness accounts: Their contradictions concern only small details and even the gospel writers’ contemporary critics took much of Jesus’s story, including the working of miracles, for granted. The Biographies of Jesus (the Gospels) Can Be Trusted The results of his investigation are these: 1. In course of the book, Strobel visits 14 scholars with an array of expertise-in philosophy, archaeology, psychology, medicine, history, and theology-and subjects them to the same kind of cross-examination he might have used on a witness in a court of law. A long-time religious skeptic, Strobel begins the book as an atheist by the end, overwhelmed by the amount of evidence in favor of faith, Strobel is reborn as a follower of Christ. He isolates the most important aspects of Jesus’s life and death-His biography, His divinity, His resurrection-and consults world-renowned experts in those aspects to determine their truth.

In The Case for Christ, Yale Law School graduate and former Chicago Tribune legal-affairs reporter Lee Strobel approaches the history of Jesus Christ as though it were a story he was reporting on. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The Case for Christ

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