Book Review: The Case for Christ

Author: Lee Strobel
Spiritual Bias: Christian
Origins Bias: Unknown
Rating: Top Shelf
Level: Basic

Comments: As the book title suggests the author makes a logical case for Christ being who he said he was. He looks at the evidence from the fields of history, archeology, medicine, and psychology to come to his conclusion. Terrific book! This one isn't necessarily of the same ilk as the other books that I have reviewed but if you're going to consider becoming a creationist you need to know the God who made you.

Summary Quote: "Let's pretend we didn't have any of the New Testament or other Christian writing." I said. "Even without them, what would we be able to conclude about Jesus from ancient non-Christian sources, such as Josephus, the Talmud, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and others?" Yamauchi smiled. "We would still have a considerable amount of important historical evidence; in fact, it would provide a kind of outline for the life of Jesus," he said. Then he went on, raising a finger to emphasize each point. "We would know that first, Jesus was a Jewish teacher; second, many people believed that he performed healings and exorcisms; third, some people believed he was the Messiah; fourth, he was rejected by the Jewish leaders; fifth, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius; sixth, despite this shameful death, his followers, who believed that he was still alive, spread beyond Palestine so that there were multitudes of them in Rome by A.D 64; and seventh, all kinds of people from the cities and countryside-men and women, slave and free-worshiped him as God."