By Lee Strobel
There's little doubt that he really lived. yet miracles? emerging from the lifeless? many of the tales you listen approximately him sound like simply that--stories. an inexpensive individual might by no means think them, not to mention the declare that he is the single solution to God! yet an affordable individual may additionally ensure that she or he understood the evidence earlier than leaping to conclusions. that is why Lee Strobel--an award-winning criminal journalist with a knack for asking difficult questions--decided to enquire Jesus for himself. An atheist, Strobel felt definite his findings may carry Christianity's claims approximately Jesus tumbling down like a home of playing cards. He used to be in for the shock of his existence. subscribe to him as he retraces his trip from skepticism to religion. you will seek advice specialist testimony as you sift during the truths that background, technological know-how, psychiatry, literature, and faith demonstrate. Like Strobel, you will be surprised on the evidence--how a lot there's, how robust it's, and what it says. The proof are in....
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But if you consult the National Enquirer, you’ll read that Elvis was recently seen alive and presumably well in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It only makes sense to figure that one of these reports isn’t completely accurate. Jesus’ oldest biographies are the books in the New Testament of the Bible called the Gospels and named after their writers: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. From these biographies, I found out a lot about who Jesus claimed to be (see chapter 2), whatkind of evidence there was for his sanity (chapter 3), and how he fit the bill of the predicted Messiah (chapter 4).
I had a strange sensation as I looked inside that drawer. Here was the substance of my entire life’s work at the Tribune. Suddenly it struck me: This is what I’m killing myself for? I’m trading my life for a drawer full of neatly folded newspaper clippings that are turning brittle and yellowing around the edges? At that moment, it didn’t seem like a fair trade. I was getting ripped off! Some people trade their entire life for a drawer full of shopping receipts, or for a shelf full of trophies, or for notches on their bedpost, or for a collection of empty bottles.
Within a year, Leslie moved down to Missouri, and we got engaged. We decided to get married in a church because. well, that’s where people get married, isn’t it? Besides, Leslie wasn’t hostile toward God, as I was. She wasn’t opposed to religion, especially for other people. For herself, though, God was just another topic she had never taken the time to seriously explore. LIVING IN HIGH GEAR After I finished college, we moved to a high-rise apartment not far from Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago.