Welcome everyone to our Lexio Bible study on Jesus, where we will be looking at the biblical and historical evidence for Christ.

My name is Dr. Brand Petri. I am research professor of sacred scripture here at the Augustine Institute in Denver.

And I'm very, very excited to be with you to begin this

Bible study looking at the biblical evidence for our Lord, the biblical evidence for Christ.

One reason I'm excited about this is because what we'll be doing is kind of walking through some of

the material in a book that I recently published called The Case for Jesus,

the Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ.

And this Lexiob Bible study is going to kind of summarize some of the main themes in that book.

So if you want to dive in a little deeper, I'd encourage you to go and get the book and read it.

We're going to be looking at a topic that, at least for me, as a cradle Catholic,

I was born pagan, but then baptized Catholic shortly thereafter. But being Catholic my whole life,

I grew up learning about the catechism. I grew up learning about the church and the history

of the church and different doctrines. But this study of Jesus is going to be a little bit different

because we're going to be looking at him through the lens of history and asking ourselves the question, not just, do you believe in Jesus?

I think most Catholics you'd ask them, Christians, do you believe in Jesus?

Their answer is?

Well, yes, of course I believe in Jesus.

But we want to take the next step and ask this question.

Why do you believe in Jesus. But we want to take the next step and ask this question. Why do you believe in Jesus? Has anyone ever asked you that? Have you ever pondered that? If someone came up to you and said,

well, why do you believe in Jesus? What would you say? How would you answer? Right? If someone said,

why do you believe in Jesus and not in

Muhammad or Buddha, right, or some other religious leader, what would you say? What are the reasons

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