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

distinctions between reasonable doubts (that are grounded rationally) and possible doubts (that are grounded emotionally).

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

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

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.

The New Testament accounts repeatedly use words that are translated as “witness,” “testimony,” “bear witness,” or “testify.” They are translated from versions of the Greek words marturia or martureo. The modern word martyr finds its root in these same Greek words; the terms eventually evolved into describing people who (like the apostolic eyewitnes

The disciples were consistently described as having chosen a life of material poverty in pursuit of spiritual truth.

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.

Darwinian evolution cannot produce truly objective morality.

science (the systematic, rational examination of phenomena) and scientism (the refusal to consider anything other than natural causes).