Reddit reviews Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels

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:

1. Is truth established only when there "no known legitimate basis for even questioning it"?
   
   
2. I think your requirement above is quite a stretch; here is a question I asked previously but wasn't addressed; is there anything in the world that there is "no known legitimate basis for even questioning it"? for example Flat earthers, holocaust deniers, climate change deniers, and etc abound. Can you address this, please?
   
   
3. Also, this was asked but not addressed: is your ""no known legitimate basis for even questioning it" criteria requirement your standard for everything and everyone [including yourself] or it just for things you don't like and viewpoints you don't hold? If not can you please present 3 things that are "no known legitimate basis for even questioning it"?
   
   
4. In fact, can you please present any view with "no known legitimate basis for even questioning it" which proves that the criteria is "no known legitimate basis for even questioning it" is the only or best way to know the truth about something?
   
   You should be able to do this since you wouldn't believe something is true without it, would you?
   
   
5. What is "no known legitimate basis for even questioning it"? Please define this as you seem to be making the certainty fallacy, demanding that a level of absolute certainty must be obtained for X before X can believed to be true when in fact there is virtually nothing in the world that is know to be absolute certain. [i.e. it's the double standard fallacy]
   
   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

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Resurrection-Jesus-Gary-Habermas-ebook/dp/B001QOGJY0/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1522429211&sr=8-4-fkmr0

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Christianity-Homicide-Detective-Investigates-ebook/dp/B00A71Y7I8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1522428968&sr=8-1

You should look at these :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Case-Christianity-Homicide-Detective-Investigates-ebook/dp/B00A71Y7I8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542809757&sr=8-1&keywords=cold+case+christianity

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Christ-Journalists-Personal-Investigation-ebook/dp/B01863JLK2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542809781&sr=1-1&keywords=a+case+for+christ