Reddit reviews Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels
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I feel like you're looking at it the wrong way, you see salvation as a way to get into heaven and you've gotten caught up in the doing things like worship group to validate yourself. I think what you need to do is change your idea of God and salvation. It's not just about going to Heaven, that's just a perk. It's about a Father who created you and loves you. I say the best resource is the Bible. It is about 60% prophecy which most has already been fulfilled. You can look at all these things but each one will have something because it's written by humans and we can't even grasp how great He is. I know you're looking for cold, hard facts but it's faith that will truly show you Him.
I hear this is a good apologetic book though, if you want proof, look up apologetics:
-J. Warner Wallace (part of Greg Koukl’s Stand to Reason crew) has a new book out - - Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels - - Its only $3.74 for Kindle on Amazon
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>No
Then why bring up your "academic, peer-reviewed paper this is "unquestionable convincing" criteria in the first place?
>To me it would be something that is established as being true to a very high degree of confidence, such that there is no known legitimate basis for even questioning it.
J, you just re-stating your "unquestionable convincing" as "no known legitimate basis for even questioning it"
So let's re-ask those questions you avoided:
You should be able to do this since you wouldn't believe something is true without it, would you?
In short, I think your reasoning about this is fallacious. But you have the opportunity [again!] to give reasons and arguments that will convince me otherwise. We'll see.
>In a criminal matter you cannot use anonymous texts (which the gospels are) as evidence
Please prove this or that the Gospels are anonymous or that you are not employing a double standard.
>one person's witness statement copying from another (which happened with the gospels) would invalidate that statement
This makes no sense; there are plenty of instances of where someone will cite another. How does this invalidate that statement?
>the gospels contain elements that could not possibly have been witnessed by the author which would invalidate them as eye witness statements.
Please prove this.
Btw, J, if you'd actually read JWW's CCC you'd see he devoted an entire chapter [chapter 11] that addressed all of these.
For too long people have interpreted the Bible without taking into account its various genres. When that is done all kinds of problems ensue. There is narrative, narrative mixed with fable, wisdom, prophecy, poetry, personifications, embellished war narratives, etc. Some sections were thematic and meant to impart a theological teaching and were never intended to be taken literally. I would suggest a few sources to help.
https://www.reasonablefaith.org
https://www.amazon.com/Guard-Students-Thinkers-Guide-Christian-ebook/dp/B00U894IGA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1522428918&sr=8-3&dpID=410%252B8eMXoiL&preST=_SY445_QL70_&dpSrc=detail
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