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

Our martyrdom would therefore be a demonstration of this trust, rather than a confirmation of the truth.

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

The disciples were not prejudicially biased; they were evidentially certain.

The most reasonable inference is that the gospel writers were present, corroborated, accurate, and unbiased.

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.

read the Gospels for yourself and examine every word. We each have the obligation to do the heavy lifting for ourselves.

many of these same historians simultaneously reject the historicity of any of the miracles described in the New Testament, in spite of the fact that these miracles are described alongside the events that scholars accept as historical. Why do they accept some events and reject others? Because they have a presuppositional bias against the supernatura

Darwinian evolution cannot produce truly objective morality.

A world in which people have the freedom to love and perform great acts of kindness is also a world in which people have the freedom to hate and commit great acts of evil. You cannot have one without the other.