31. When You Have Trouble Believing the Bible, with J. Warner Wallace

The Natasha Crain Podcast

Natasha Crain

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Even Christians struggle with believing what the Bible says sometimes. We want to believe it's God's Word, but there can be doubts that nag at us. Can miracles really happen? If they can, why should we believe some of the stranger miracles in the Bible like a talking donkey? Why would God leave enough uncertainty around what the Bible says that people can come to such different conclusions about it? Even if we believe that the Gospels report some true things about Jesus, how can we be confident that we should believe everything the Gospels say? Today, cold-case homicide detective, national speaker, and bestselling author J. Warner Wallace joins me to discuss these questions and more, in honor of the release of the updated and expanded version of his modern classic, Cold-Case Christianity.

MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:

Cold-Case Christianity (Updated & Expanded Edition)

J. Warner Wallace's website: www.coldcasechristianity.com

Investigating the evidence for Mormonism: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/investigating-the-evidence-for-mormonism-in-six-steps/

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0:14.0	Well, hi everyone, welcome to the Natasha Crane Podcast. Today I am so honored to have on the show my friend Jay Warner Wallace. I think most people listening to this probably already know who he is, but I just want to make
0:17.7	sure that we're all on the same page about his awesomeness, so let me give you a quick
0:21.6	background. Jay Warner Wallace is a dateline featured cold case homicide detective,
0:26.0	a popular national speaker, and a best-selling author.
0:29.0	He was a devout atheist until the age of 35
0:32.0	when he decided to apply the same step-by-step
0:34.5	investigative process he utilized in his work as a homicide detective to the
0:38.8	Bible. He became convinced that Christianity was true in his life was never the same.
0:42.8	Jim has now written several books that explain the evidence for the truth of
0:46.3	Christianity from the perspective of a detective and I can say on a personal note
0:50.6	all of them are fantastic I cannot recommend them more highly and I've
0:55.4	known Jim actually for about a decade now he was a huge part of my own story of
0:59.8	getting started in ministry little known fact I started my blog back in 2011 and a couple of years
1:05.7	after that I reached out to him and said,
1:07.2	hey, would you accept a guest post on your website?
1:10.9	And in retrospect, this is kind of embarrassing because this isn't even
1:13.7	something that he was really doing at the time I just kind of threw it out
1:16.6	there without thinking too much about it and he graciously agreed and I wrote an
1:21.4	article he posted it well an editor at Harvest House Publishers was looking for something on Jim's blog not long after that one day.
1:27.0	He came across my article and then he went and visited my website.
1:31.0	And this editor got interested in what I was doing
1:33.4	long story short that led to me writing my first book keeping your kids on God's side
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