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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Is the New Testament Reliable?

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Can the New Testament be tested in some way to determine if it is telling us the truth about the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus? If so, how can we investigate it?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.2

in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:09.4

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

0:12.8

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

0:17.2

Thanks for joining us at the cold-case Christian podcast, I'm J. Warner Wallace.

0:23.4

This week we're going to finish up our little four-week mini-series of a series of talks

0:26.8

I gave locally here at a church that wanted to equip their people to better make the case

0:31.6

for what they believe.

0:32.6

We started on Wednesday nights, three consecutive Wednesday nights, talking about truth and

0:36.4

the problem of evil and the resurrection, and then the following Sunday, during the Sunday

0:40.4

service, we talked about the reliability of the New Testament.

0:43.7

Here's the talk that I kind of started off giving, really, that was the talk that I would,

0:48.2

in the presentation, I would give students for years as a youth pastor, training students,

0:53.6

so I was with Sean McDowell, for example, when I trained his students, he learned about

0:57.8

our trips to Berkeley and our immersive experiences, and so he wanted to come along.

1:02.4

On that first trip to Berkeley, I was teaching his kids, and he said, hey, you should write

1:06.1

a book about that.

1:07.1

And so this is the content that eventually became cold-case Christian, which, by the way,

1:11.2

is about to prepare for a launch of its 10th anniversary edition more about that later.

1:16.0

But this talk at the local church just kind of gives you the four legs of eyewitness reliability.

1:22.5

So I hope you can kind of listen to this.

1:25.8

It's not as visual as some of the other talks, so it should be something that translates

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