J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders

in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV.

Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Chrissian.

Thanks for joining us at the Cold Case Chrissian and your podcast, I'm J. Warner Wallace.

Today, I'm going to air for you an interview I did some time ago because it's so different than

a lot of the stuff that we put here on our podcast because this is a short case for the existence

of the soul. This is one of those foundational issues, right? If there's no soul and there's no hope

that we will live beyond the grave, that's a foundational climate of Christianity.

So this idea that we are both, we're dualish creatures that we are both material beings and

soulish beings, that's something I think is so foundational to what we believe as Christians,

we often take it for granted, but can we make a case? And can we make a case from something other

than scripture? That's what this episode with Eric Hoven was all about. So I'm hoping this will

help you as you make a case to others, even conversationally before you set the foundation for

Christianity. So I hope you enjoy this interview with Eric Hoven about the evidence for the

existence of the soul. Do human beings have a soul? Neuroscientists these days are claiming that we do

not. I and my friend joining me, Jay Warner Wallace say we do along with Christians. I want to find

out what you think and I want to discover how to learn more about this. That's what's happening

today as we discuss or investigate the soul. I need to paint a little picture for you of where I'm

at right now. I am sitting in the living room of an estate that used to be a plantation.

This plantation was once one of the largest tobacco producing farms in America. I know

doubt and in a room and in a room that housed people that accepted the idea of segregation

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