Russell F. (pastordic) reviewed on 7/4/2013 + 9 more book reviews

I am only posting this book on PaperBackSwap because somehow I ended up with two copies of it. Now that I am putting all my books on GoodReads.com hopefully I will stop forgetting what books I have and buying extra copies of them.

This was a very good and thorough book without being to scholarly or preachy. It is matter of fact. It is a first person account of what happened to him.

Lee Strobel at the time was an investigative journalist and his wife became a Christian, so he decided to investigate the claims of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and see if he could get his wife out of this cult called Christianity.

He interviewed a forensic pathologist, a physician and former research scientist, a former divinity school teacher who debated atheists about the resurrection, and a professor and chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Theology at a university.

He did a thorough investigation. He investigated whether Jesus was killed or could have just fainted. He checked whether Joseph of Arimathea, whose tomb Jesus was laid in, was a hoax. He investigated whether Jesus really rose from the dead. What about the soldiers? Whether people really saw Jesus after his resurrection or whether Jesus' body was just dead and stolen.

Then the author gave his conclusions.

I would be interested what an atheist who seriously read the book (rather than just wanting to rail against Christianity) thought of it.

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