Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity podcast, where a veteran cold case homicide detective investigates the truth of the Christian worldview.

Jay Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured detective, Christian apologist, and bestselling author. This weekly show applies real investigative tools to the claims of Christianity.

Thanks so much for joining us to the Colcase Christianity podcast. I am

J. Warner Wallace. All right, today I want to talk about some of the complaints I hear,

and I hear so many online related to the case for God's existence. Forget about Christianity.

If Christianity stands on a prior claim, is there a God? If there is no God, then there is no Christian

God. So when I first began looking at the case for theism, because I got provoked, and I bought a Bible

to see if this guy, Jesus, was smart, because that's how it started from me. I had an obstacle.

First of all, I did not believe in anything supernatural. There's nothing outside of space, time, matter, physics, and chemistry. And I didn't believe there was a God

to begin with. So this claim about a Christian God made no sense to me. And I had to start at square

one. I had to go back and ask myself, was my presupposition about my atheistic presupposition

that there's nothing outside of space, time matter and chemistry was it warranted and i'm going to share with you the temple that i used in a book called god's crime scene now look there's a ton of of material in that book i will tell you that book i think i remember at the time i took a photograph and put it on social social media. I think I had to read like 117 books, some crazy number of books. And it just took forever. But luckily, in those days, I was traveling so much that I got a lot of these on Kindle and I did a lot of my research while I was in planes. This is back before you had much help in terms of AI doing research. So I'm just reading books and reading the books on both sides.

What's the atheistic explanation for this piece of data?

What's the theistic explanation for this piece of data going back and forth?

So in writing this book, there's a ton of research in God's crime scene.

So yes, I do podcasts.

We try to do as much free material as possible. But if you want to

bless our ministry, really, we don't have, we're not a 501c3. We don't take donations. But I do use

the sale of books to take, to really equip everything else we do. And by the way, like video

editing these days is becoming more and more expensive and all the different resources that are out there hosting websites is anyway. The point is if you want to deep dive this and you

think, yeah, I'd like to be on sure footing. I want to know the case to that degree number eight

because I may have to answer the question to degree number four, and I want to have some depth of

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