The Case for Christ

and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. When Pilate, upon

“I don’t want to base my life on a symbol,” he said resolutely. “I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What’s not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They’re the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

an unsympathetic witness to the success and spread of Christianity, based on

issues—whether Jesus’ biographies were

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