I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. I appreciated the level of detail that Mr Strobel uses in presenting the material. It was approachable for someone who hasn’t spent time examining original academic sources but was in depth enough to explain those sources in a clear and convincing way.
I am a Christian and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints. I was taught by my parents to believe in Christ and I don’t recall a time that I didn’t believe. This book confirmed my faith in Christ and helped to cement in my mind some of the intellectual reasons for my faith. I believe in studying things intellectually and looking for the truth in all of the evidence. I appreciated this book as an introduction to the historical evidence for Christ.
I would love to see Mr Strobel produce a book that examines the claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the same rigor that he examines Christ in this book. He has a few paragraphs in this book where he offhandedly discounts the claims of the Latter-day Saints. While I trusted his presentation of expertise on topics related directly to Christ’s historicity, that set of paragraphs cast doubt in my mind about how truly unbiased he was in his approach.
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