The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus

by Lee Strobel

But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, ‘This isn’t fair.’ ”

To be God, Jesus must be ethically perfect. But some critics of Christianity have charged that he fell short because, they say, he tacitly approved of the morally abhorrent practice of slavery.

How can Jesus’ failure to push for the abolition of slavery be squared with God’s love for all people?

“Was he morally deficient for not working to dismantle an institution that demeaned people who were made in the image of God?”