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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Did Jesus Say Faith Is “Blind”?

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

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

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner examines the Biblical definition of “faith”. Did Jesus advocate “blind faith”? How did Jesus use evidence to demonstrate his Deity? How did Jesus deal with doubt?

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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.

0:07.6

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

0:12.7

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

0:17.0

For more information about Jim's work and the Case for Christianity, please visit coldcase

0:21.7

Christianity.com.

0:22.9

Now, here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

0:26.4

Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity.

0:30.1

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

0:32.5

How do we know that anything, any claim, any worldview claim, a claim about history of any

0:37.4

kind, secular history, Christian history, any worldview claim, a claim about history of any kind, secular history,

0:39.2

Christian history, any kind of historical claim is true. How do we know that anything we believe

0:44.0

is actually true? What are the steps we take? What is the methodology we use to determine that

0:50.6

something is actually true? I think this is a question that as Christians we really need to focus in on sometimes

0:56.2

because I think the world around us doesn't believe we use a process that is in any way evidential.

1:02.8

I think that most people who aren't Christians look at Christians as folks who believe things

1:07.0

for which they have no supporting evidence.

1:09.0

And you sure seem to hear that kind of talking

1:11.4

from all kinds of people who have written against Christianity in the last 10 years. Richard Dawkins,

1:16.5

often Sam Harris, these are folks who often talk about Christianity as a view of the world that

1:21.7

requires us to have a certain kind of blind trust, blind faith, sometimes even faith in spite of evidence to the contrary.

1:30.1

Well, there's a sense in which you can see why, for a lot of people that might think of that

1:34.4

as really being true faith, right? When you believe in something, even when all the evidence

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