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Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

Thanks for joining us back here at Cold Case Christianity.

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

Now this week we're going to talk about some material that I've written quite a bit about in a book called cold-case Christianity from which our entire ministry got its start and in this book I look at the Gospels using some of the tools that we typically use when

investigating cold cases.

As a matter of fact, the book will actually teach you 10 principles of evidence and then

apply these as we examine whether or not we can trust the gospel

eyewitness accounts as just that eyewitness accounts.

It turns out that when we do criminal trials in the state of California we allow jurors to vet

these eyewitnesses who come and make a statement on the stand.

As a matter of fact, there's a jury instruction that allows jurors to think in their

head about 14 questions that

13 or 14 questions that that actually kind of test the reliability of

eyewitnesses now I listed those questions in the book cold case Christianity

and I've also heard them many times described the juries as part of jury instructions

but I wanted to kind of break them down into four large categories because the 14 questions do break down into four

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