How to Build the Case for Christianity - Part 2
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this second 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 rests 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 |
| 0:35.1 | very lips of atheists, agnostics, and various religions to see whether Christianity |
| 0:40.2 | holds up to courtroom level scrutiny. The I'm your host Abdul Murray. I am a trial attorney and senior vice president and speaker with |
| 0:56.1 | Ravi Zakaraias International Ministries. The defense rests as a podcast where we take a look at the claims |
| 1:01.6 | for the objections against the |
| 1:03.8 | Christian faith using legal principles whether it's the rules of evidence or |
| 1:08.2 | trial procedure or even the Constitution and the principles of law upon which a free society is based or the way juries think and jury science or the way judges make their rulings and why they make their rulings the way they do. |
| 1:23.8 | We have to examine ourselves as jurors, people who are the trier of fact. |
| 1:28.6 | A trier of fact is simply exactly what it sounds like. |
| 1:31.5 | Someone who looks at the facts, sees the |
| 1:33.7 | evidence, weighs the credibility of the witnesses, weighs the importance of |
| 1:37.8 | the evidence presented, and then makes a determination of liable or not liable, |
| 1:41.8 | guilty or not guilty, or in the case of the Christian faith, true or not true. |
| 1:48.0 | It is the question each one of us has to ask ourselves, and you, my friends, as the audience, you are the jury. |
| 1:55.2 | And so we have to find out does the Christian faith meet the preponderance of the |
| 1:59.2 | evidence test? In some cases, does it meet the clear and convincing evidence test or does it prove itself beyond all reasonable not all possible but all reasonable doubt? |
| 2:10.0 | Well my friends I am delighted to have as a returning guest for part two of our, I'm hoping you're finding it a fascinating discussion. I certainly am. |
| 2:20.0 | J Warner Wallace, J Warner Wallace is a well-known homicide detective, a cold case, |
| 2:25.9 | dateline featured cold case homicide detective, a national speaker and a |
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