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“Classical” apologists, such as Norman Geisler, R.C. Sproul, and William Lane Craig, insist that, prior to making a factual, historical case for Jesus Christ, one must establish God’s existence—generally using the classical, Aristotelian proofs, or sophisticated variants on those proofs (such as Craig’s favourite, the medieval, Arabic kalam cosmolo
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The early Christians believed that Jesus was Israel’s Messiah, not, as some Jewish apologists today have absurdly said, “the Christian Messiah.”
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. When Pilate, upon
Lee Strobel • The Case for Christ
In the 18th century itself, William Paley (Natural Theology; Evidences) argued for the soundness of the biblical witness—both as to God’s hand in nature and as to the soundness of the New Testament portrait of Jesus;9 and Thomas Sherlock pointed out, in his legally orientated work The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus, that people
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this general thrust, of a very Jewish Jesus who was nevertheless opposed to some high-profile features of first-century Judaism, seems to me the most viable one if we are to do justice, not just to the evidence of the synoptic gospels (they, after all, are easy game for any critic who wants to avoid their implications) but more particularly to the
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