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  1. Matthias

    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    Why do Roman sources show even the least bit of interest in Jesus? It’s not for the same reason you do @Riven.
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    The happy thread

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    The happy thread

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    The happy thread

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    The happy thread

  6. Matthias

    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    Then the case remains open and there is more investigation to be done, unless you just don’t care. (I don’t think you do.)
  7. Matthias

    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    The dead don’t come back to life on their own. That leaves supernatural. All possibilities have to be considered. Yes. All possibilities have to be considered and evaluated. See Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger. Yes. No to both. See above on the dead coming to life...
  8. Matthias

    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    “The supernatural resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth could be true because there is no evidence.” How many of my readers are (or might be) persuaded by that?
  9. Matthias

    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    Since you declined to say flat out that it isn’t true @Riven, give me your best answer to this: The supernatural resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth could be true because ______.
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    QUOTE for the day

    “The battle of the Christian life is the battle for the Christian mind.” - John Stott
  11. Matthias

    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    The disciples of Jesus themselves initially had difficulty believing it was true. Jesus himself proved to them that it is.
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    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    Even Jews in his day and in ours who don’t believe he is the Messiah believe the crucifixion event happened @Riven. Is that sufficient evidence for you to say that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified 2,000 years ago?
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    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    So then you believe that it could be true. The reason to entertain it is because it could be true. That takes us back to the alleged event: a man who was dead for three days and three nights was brought back to life. There is evidence that he was. Wallace invites his readers to examine that...
  14. Matthias

    Why Cold-Case Skills Can Help You Examine Christianity

    Give me your best answer: The supernatural resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth isn’t true because ______. So far I have in my notes: 1. It’s not true because you weren’t personally there to see it. 2. It’s not true because the Bible cannot be used as evidence. 3. It’s not true because eyewitness...
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    The happy thread