How to Build the Case for Christianity - Part 1
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this first of two rebroadcasted "The Defense Rests" podcasts, Abdu Murray sits down with J. Warner to talk about the nature of evidence, how cases are built using evidence, and attitudes that investigators have when trying to determine "what happened." Along the way, they apply the discussion to our individual searches for the truth about Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | The defense for us is a podcast where you're the jury. We'll put Christianity and other |
| 0:12.4 | worldviews in the courtroom as we address the claims for and objections against the Christian faith, all from a legal perspective. |
| 0:20.0 | Our host is Abdu Murray, lawyer, author, former Muslim turned Christian and a senior vice president at RZIM. |
| 0:28.0 | Abdu was named several times in Best Lawyers in America and Michigan Super Lawyer, and he will bring objections right from the very |
| 0:35.3 | lips of atheists, agnostics, and various religions to see whether Christianity holds up to |
| 0:40.8 | courtroom level scrutiny. The community |
| 0:48.0 | all rise and welcome to another episode of the defense rests. I'm Abdu Murray. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm your host, a trial attorney and senior vice president |
| 0:52.0 | with Robbie Zakaras International Ministries. |
| 0:54.8 | The Defense Rest is a podcast where we take a look at the claims for and the objections |
| 0:59.6 | against the Christian faith from a legal perspective where we look at the rules of evidence we look at the rules of trial procedure |
| 1:06.1 | We look at the way lawyers assess a case whether to bring one how to present it to a jury and then we also ask how do juries think what do jurors do when they're presented with cases how do judges make their rulings and what are the instructions that a judge would give to a jury when a case is submitted how they should be |
| 1:24.5 | unbiased how they can look at evidence how does circumstantial evidence works |
| 1:28.2 | how does direct evidence works all these kind of things are the procedures, methods, and the principles we want to apply when we're looking at claims for and objections against the Christian worldview. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, this particular episode, I'm very excited to have my friend and apologist of the first |
| 1:46.8 | rank and a bit of a celebrity of course as someone who's been featured on network television, |
| 1:54.8 | Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 1:56.1 | Many of you might know the name Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 1:58.2 | If you're at all following the Apolloetics world, |
| 2:00.4 | you will know who Jim is. |
| 2:01.7 | Jim is a dateline featured cold case homicide |
| 2:04.6 | detective. He's been a cold case homicide detective for a long time and he's been |
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