
Sceptics who changed their minds
Lee Strobel: a journalist investigates
A legal editor at the Chicago Tribune and an atheist, Strobel set out to investigate the evidence for Jesus after his wife became a Christian, and came to faith in 1981. He describes the investigation in The Case for Christ (1998).
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His account
Strobel says he approached the question as a journalist would a news story, interviewing scholars about the reliability of the Gospels and the resurrection. He concluded that the evidence pointed to Jesus being who He claimed to be.
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4that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
Luke 1:4 (WEB) · context
Sources
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ (Zondervan, 1998)
Why the evidence matters
If Jesus rose, His offer is real
God loves you and gave His Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish.