In this book, author Lee Strobel sets out to discover who the real/historical Jesus was. In his first book, the Case for Christ, Strobel already "proved" that Christ existed and was the Son of God. Strobel's questions in this book center around whether the Gospels are accurate biographies of Jesus' life, whether the crucifixion and resurrection happened as described in the Bible, whether Jesus was the foretold messiah, and whether we can pick and choose what we want to believe about him.

I found much of this book fascinating. I have read other books (God's Secretaries, The History of God, and others) that challenge what I've been told throughout my faith about the Bible, God, and Christianity. Strobel's approach is to take what he's read from some popular scholars to "experts", Biblical scholars with just as good, if not better, credentials to hear the argument against accusations like the Gospels were selected by a few men from among a wealth of other contradictory information about Jesus (Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Peter, etc.)

These arguments are laid out in a manner that makes them easy to understand. Sometimes it seemed to boil down to one "expert's" belief vs another, but there is enough there that I made me re-think these books I had read.

While I tend to doubt this book would cause a true unbeliever to suddenly accept Jesus, I found that many of these arguments are around things I personally struggle with--and in the end, helped strengthen my own faith.