#215 A Cold Case Homicide Detective Examines the Gospels, with J. Warner Wallace
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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J. Warner Wallace is a successful cold case homicide detective from Los Angeles who was an atheist for many years. He decided to put Christianity through the same type of evidentiary tests he put his cold cases through. He converted to Christianity when the evidence led him there. He joins the podcast today to talk about skeptical challenges to New Testament reliability, and how he, as a detective resolved those challenges for himself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core |
| 0:13.2 | beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with |
| 0:17.9 | clarity, kindness, and truth. |
| 0:19.9 | And I'm so excited to bring you this conversation that I just had with J. Warner Wallace, author |
| 0:24.7 | of Cold Case Christianity, forensic faith, God's crime scene, and person of interest. |
| 0:30.4 | And now he is here talking about his expanded and updated version of his original first |
| 0:36.4 | book, Cold Case Christianity, which I've shared many times on this podcast was very life-changing |
| 0:41.2 | for me. |
| 0:42.2 | It was very helpful to me in my spiritual journey. |
| 0:45.1 | And this conversation was so good. |
| 0:47.2 | Some of the highlights for me is Jim walked us through what it's like to think like a detective. |
| 0:51.7 | Of course, he approached the evidence for Christianity from the perspective of a Cold |
| 0:56.3 | Case homicide detective. |
| 0:57.6 | So it's this completely unique approach of how he treated Christianity as a cold case. |
| 1:02.6 | And could he solve the case? |
| 1:05.3 | And of course, he became a Christian. |
| 1:07.2 | And that's part of his story. |
| 1:09.2 | But in the book, he walks us through just how to think like a detective, how to examine |
| 1:13.4 | evidence, how to make inferences and think critically. |
| 1:16.8 | So we talked a little bit about that. |
| 1:18.3 | A highlight for me was when he talked about jurors, and if you think about a courtroom, |
| 1:25.8 | it's the jury that decides the conclusion, that decides the outcome. |
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