Good (and Bad) Reasons to Be a Christian

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, J. Warner examines five responses typically offered to the question: “Why are you a Christian?” Are these responses sufficient, given the nature of the culture in which we live? How can we better respond to the challenges we face as we try to defend what we believe about Christianity?

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0:00.0	I don't know I mean does anyone really pay attention to radio anymore?
0:14.0	I'm a cop you idiot!
0:19.0	Are you ready to examine the evidence for Christianity?
0:33.0	Welcome. the only Christian case making cast hosted by a coal case homicide detective. Here is your host, J Warner Wallace.
0:50.0	Wallace. 100% satisfaction guarantee. Thanks for joining us here at the Cold Case Christianity
0:57.0	podcast. I'm J. Warner Wallace.
0:59.0	This week getting ready to teach at Biola on Friday and Saturday, the time we've ever taught a seminar, a two-unit
1:06.7	seminar on cold case Christianity. Some of the principles you might use of investigation. We're going to be talking
1:12.4	about also some of the rules of investigation. We're going to be talking about also some of the rules of
1:14.9	evidence that are here in California that we use in criminal cases. We're going to
1:18.3	talk about how to turn those rules of evidence into a strategy for making the
1:21.6	case for Christianity and then we're even going to
1:23.7	take the next step and try to help people see how you might be able to take a kind of
1:29.9	a criminal prosecution approach to making the case visually.
1:34.3	So we're trying to not only give you a background in terms of the rules of evidence and
1:38.0	then we'll talk about of course what some of the pieces of evidence are for the Christian
1:41.4	worldview, but we're also trying to say, well, what can we do with these
1:44.1	pieces of evidence? How would we best present these so that they are compelling in front of a jury?
1:49.2	And of course, in this case, the jury would be our friends and family who are trying to talk about and kind of make a case for
1:55.0	what we believe as Christians. If you didn't have a chance to get involved in
1:59.0	this particular class and of course that by the time you're hearing this I'll post this on Friday afternoon but I'm recording it on Wednesday
2:06.4	I will be in the middle of our first session at Biola so I would just kind of keep a heads up I know we'll be doing it again and hopefully a couple of other ideas for classes as well that I hope to make real in the next couple of years. So hopefully we'll get a chance to meet at one of these classes. I'm looking forward though to the class if you're in the
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