A recent study shows that even many Christians don't know what Christianity teaches, we'll discuss that on today's broadcast.

J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

His work has been featured on Fox News, Date Line, and Core TV.

Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christianity.

Welcome to the cold-case Christian broadcast. I'm Jimmy Wallace.

And I'm J. Warner Wallace. And this week, as we kind of exit through the Christmas season, we're going to talk a little bit about the understanding that we have as a family of Christians,

at least in America, and what we view about the nature of Jesus, just celebrated as a birthday, but a lot of as it turns out, according to recent surveys,

don't even hold an orthodox view or a Christian view, pardon me, of who Jesus was. And that's what we're going to talk about.

We're going to do it. I think Jimmy from an article had Christianity today. I'll click over there also.

So why don't you discuss what this article says?

Yeah, this is an article reporting on some research from Lifeway Research. And it says more than 9 in 10 Americans, so 91% celebrate Christmas according to this research study.

And for most of those celebrating Christmas is about a historical occurrence. They're reporting that 7 in 10, about 72% of Americans say that Jesus was born in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago,

and 49% of the people surveyed strongly agree with the statement that Jesus was really born.

Very few disagree. Only 9% of the people in their research disagree with the idea that Jesus was really born in Bethlehem, just like the Christmas story tells.

And about 18% of people just aren't sure where they kind of fall on the issue.

Now, most Americans, 80% of all Americans, they say it's a research that strictly on only Christian, but most Americans will agree with the statement, Jesus Christ is the son of God, the father, 80% people said they agreed with the statement.

10% disagreed and 10% weren't sure.

Okay, so let's hold on right there. Isn't that interesting?

Here's my concern, and I don't know what the parameters and the article doesn't make it clear.

We use that expression son of God, right? Like when we use that expression, we understand the kind of context from the Old Testament, how that expression is used.

And we infer that to mean that, oh, you're telling me the 80% of Americans think that Jesus is God? Well, it probably doesn't mean that.

This means that this is a title that they've heard applied even by Christians, if you wanted Christian, so it's not sure that even means they recognize this deity.

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