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The Case for the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel

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Jan 02, 11

Read from December 26 to 31, 2010

The latest "Case for..." book by Lee Strobel follows the same pattern as his previous ones in that he takes questions to leading experts and gets their response. This book looks at six issues: 1) Are their other writings about Jesus just as credible as the Gospels? 2) Is the Bible unreliable due to changes made in its translation over the years? 3) Have new explanations refuted Jesus resurection? 4) Are Christian beliefs about Jesus stolen from other pagen religions? 5) Did Jesus fail to fulfill the messianic prophecies? 6) Should people be able to pick and choose what they want to about Jesus?

Learned a few new things: There are two sections of the New Testament in Mark and John which have additions which were not in the original texts (although neither change who Jesus was portrayed to be) and the Messianic prophecies had to take place before the second temple fell in 70 AD and the only one who could have fulfilled the prophecies was Jesus.

I enjoy Strobel's writings and approach to Jesus.

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