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

Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity.

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

Now, if you remember last week, we talked about on our broadcast, you may have watched it,

or you may have heard it in terms of its podcast version, how to handle the alleged or apparent

contradictions you sometimes see in scripture, especially those that are cited by non-believers

or by critics of Christianity, that they kind of cite these alleged irreconcilable contradictions

in the accounts to invalidate the New Testament. And I think one of the areas that gets special attention by skeptics such as these

is the area surrounding the Passion Week and the resurrection accounts.

Those of, we really shouldn't be surprised that this is the area that gets kind of particularly

scrutinized by non-believers.

After all, even Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15 that this is the singular most important piece of evidence,

the singular most important claim, at least evidential kind of historical claim about Jesus.

It's the resurrection.

If this isn't true, Paul says, you were to be pitied.

We have actually been lying to you and you bought the lie. If this isn't true, Paul says you were to be pitied, we have actually been

lying to you and you bought the lie. So I think this is much of the entire, well, I think the entire

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