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

Not all memories are equally important or memorable.

While only some of us are gifted and called to be evangelists, all of us are called to be case makers. It’s our duty as Christians.

The gospel eyewitnesses had something very specific to say about Jesus. They did not give their lives sacrificially for personal opinions about God; they gave their lives because their claims were an objective matter of life and death.

our presuppositions are sometimes hidden in a way that makes them hard to uncover and recognize.

If there was a God who could account for the beginning of the universe, lesser miracles (say, walking on water or healing the blind) might not even be all that impressive.

These councils did not create the canon or the current version of Jesus we know so well; they simply acknowledged the canon and description of Jesus that had been provided by the eyewitnesses.

In the vast majority of textual additions that have been made to the Bible over the centuries, the changes have been so insignificant as to have very little effect on the content of the narrative and virtually no impact on the important doctrinal claims of Christianity.

We all have enough expertise to begin to question the use of specific words and develop a richer understanding of the biblical text if only we will become interested readers of Scripture.

The forces in our universe, both small and large, appear to be fine-tuned to make life possible.