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The Case for the Real Jesus

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Jesus Christ - Biography - History and Criticism
Jesus Christ - Historicity
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Introduction - Searching for the Real Jesus
Challenge #1 - "Scholars Are Uncovering a Radically Different Jesus in Ancient Documents Just as Credible as the Four Gospels"
Challenge #2 - "The Bible's Portrait of Jesus Can't Be Trusted Because the Church Tampered with the Text"
Challenge #3
Part 1: - "New Explanations Have Refuted Jesus' Resurrection"
Part 2: - The Cross-Examination
Challenge #4 - "Christianity's Beliefs about Jesus Were Copied from Pagan Religions"
Challenge #5 - "Jesus Was an Imposter Who Failed to Fulfill the Messianic Prophecies"
Challenge #6 - "People Should Be Free to Pick and Choose What to Believe about Jesus"
Conclusion - Discovering the Real Jesus
Appendix A - A Summary of Evidence from The Case for Christ
Appendix B - Helpful Websites to Investigate the Real Jesus
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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A series of books outlines cases for certain beliefs in Christianity by Lee Strobel.

1) The Case for Christ
3) The Case for a Creator
6) The Case for the Real Jesus
Copyright © 2007 by Lee Strobel
For Frank Cate
Who's at Home with the real Jesus
At first glance, there was nothing unusual about Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California.
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This is the real Jesus, who all along has been alive and well as he dwells in the lives of his people - the community whose door is always a
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Outside a Chicago hospital on a humid summer night, a gunshot victim was unloaded from an ambulance and wheeled on a gurney into the emergency room.  The teenager gestured toward his abdomen as he was rolled past reporters.  "It doesn't even hurt!" he said with a nervous laugh, as if everyone were old friends.  "It doesn't even hurt!"

A few hours later, he was dead.

A reporter on the streets of Chicago soon develops more than a passing acquaintance with death.  Often the people directly embroiled in an unfolding tragedy - the car accident, the gang fight, the convenience store robbery gone awry - are too bewildered and disoriented to fully comprehend their predicament.  But from the detached perspective of the reporter, the grim outcome is much more foreseeable.  And when death finally does seize its victims, when their eyes stare blankly, then all hope is gone.  They've spoken their last word, they've breathed their last breath, and their time is done - they won't be coming back. That's why all this talk of Jesus' resurrection seemed so strange to me. It's staggering how quickly the body of a deceased person is reduced to a mere shell.  The idea that it could somehow become reanimated, especially after three days, could never quite get past my Journalistic skepticism when I was an atheist.

As I documented in The Case for Christ, it was my investigation of the historical evidence that eventually convinced me that the resurrection of Jesus really happened.  In the succeeding years, however, the resurrection has been subjected to new and more contentious attacks.  Do any of these updated objections, I wondered, manage to crack this central pillar of Christianity?

Religious studies professor Bart D. Ehrman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill certainly thinks so.  "After years of studying," he said, "I finally came to the conclusion that everything I had previously thought about the historical evidence of the resurrection was absolutely wrong."  The graduate of the conservative Moody Bible Institute and the evangelical Wheaton College is now an avowed agnostic.

Skepticism about the resurrection was bolstered by a pre-Easter 2007 television documentary followed by a popular book - which claimed that the burial site of Jesus and his family had been accidentally uncovered by an Israeli construction crew in 1980.  According to the film, the "bone boxes" of "Jesus, son of Joseph," Mary, Joseph, Mary Magdelene, and even "Judah, son of Jesus" were found in the Talpiot Tomb.  The discovery threatened to amplify doubts about whether Jesus really had returned from the dead in bodily form.

At the forefront of the most recent challenges to the resurrection have been Muslims, who clearly understand that discrediting the resurrection means nothing less than disproving the truth of Christianity.  Muslims interpret the Qur'an as saying that Jesus never actually died on the cross, much less returned from the dead.

A leading Muslim apologist, Shabir Ally, has said that the Messiah was expected to be victorious, and therefore "a crucified Messiah is as self-refuting as a square circle, a four-sided triangle, or a married bachelor."  Ayman al-Zawahri, the deputy leader of Al Qaeda, even took time out from excoriating George W. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI in a 2006 videotape to urge all Christians to convert to Islam, which, he said, correctly believes that Jesus was never put to death, never rose from the dead, and was not divine.

 

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WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS?

Today, the traditional picture of Jesus is under an intellectual onslaught from critical scholars, popular historians, TV documentaries, Hollywood movies, bestselling authors, Internet bloggers, Muslim debaters, and atheist think tanks.  They're capturing the public's imagination with a radical new portrait of Jesus that bears scant resemblance to the picture historically embraced by the church.

How persuasive is this new image of Jesus? Is it based on well-supported facts and arguments - or does it fade away when exposed to the hot light of scrutiny?

In this dramatic investigation, award-winning writer and former legal editor Lee Strobel explores such controversial questions as:
  • Did Christianity suppress "alternative gospels" that portray Jesus more accurately than the New Testament?
  • Did the church distort the truth about Jesus by tampering with early biblical texts?
  • Have fresh insights and explanations finally disproved the resurrection?
  • Were the essential beliefs about Jesus stolen from earlier mythology?
  • Have new objections disqualified Jesus from being the Messiah?
Evaluate the evidence for yourself as leading experts grapple with the latest objections from today's foremost critics.  Then reach your own verdict in The Case for the Real Jesus.

LEE STROBEL (www.LeeStrobel.com), with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and a spiritual skeptic until 1981.  His books include four Gold Medallion winners and the 2005 Christian Book of the Year (coauthored with Garry Poole).  He and his wife live in California.
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