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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Are the Gospels Eyewitness Accounts?

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

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Christianworldview, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianapologetics, Forensicfaith, Colsoncenterforchristianworldview, Christian, Christianity, Evidenceforchristianity, Faithandreason, Godscrimescene, Coldcasechristianity, Apologetics, Society & Culture

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

J. Warner makes a case for the eyewitness status of the New Testament Gospel accounts. Is it appropriate to evaluate these accounts as eyewitness statements? Were they intended to be read in this manner? Jim provides several reasons to accept the accounts as eyewitness testimony.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective.

0:07.0

Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating Cold Case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:12.0

His work has been featured on Fox News. murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:12.8

His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline.

0:17.4

For more information about Jim's work and the case for Christianity,

0:20.7

please visit coldcase Christianity.com. Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

0:26.0

Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity. I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

0:33.6

You probably know if you're watching this video,

0:35.7

if you probably visited our website at coldcase Christianity.com,

0:38.5

and you're probably aware of the fact that I wrote a book called Cold Case

0:41.1

Christianity.

0:41.9

And in that book, I really take a look at the reliability of the gospel eyewitness authors

0:47.2

using the same template that I would use with any set of eyewitnesses in any kind of a cold case trial or cold case investigation.

0:54.4

But a lot of folks have kind of come back and said, well, wait a minute, is that even legitimate

0:58.1

to begin with?

0:59.1

Given that why would you think that these Gospels are being offered as eyewitness accounts.

1:04.7

In fact, there's a kind of a rich skeptical history of people who would deny that the

1:08.9

Gospels are eyewitness accounts to begin with.

1:11.4

And if that's the case, you certainly couldn't use any template you might use to evaluate eyewitnesses would not be

1:16.0

appropriate for this kind of an investigation but I think there is good reason to

1:20.6

believe that and this is one of those things again you last

1:23.6

week we made a case for case making sometimes when you're making a case

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