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The Daily Journey:  The Case for Christ

I have been reading Lee Strobel’s book The Case For Christ this past week.  It’s an awesome read for any one who already believes in Jesus as the Son of God to those of you who don’t and have a lot of unanswered questions.  Lee is a research journalist with a law background who started out as an atheist. He went on a fact finding search when his wife became a follower of Jesus.  He set out to prove the whole thing was a sham and found out something totally different in his quest.  The conclusion to the whole thing is that the words that we have recorded of Jesus i the Bible can be fully trusted.  And the witness of the writers of the New Testament is historically accurate.  Nothing has been found through archeology, historical analysis, textual analysis, psychological studies, or anything else that has been able to disprove the accounts of Jesus that we have in the Bible.

1Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.