Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity podcast, where a veteran Cold Case homicide detective investigates the truth of the Christian worldview.

Jay Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured detective, Christian apologist, and bestselling author.

This weekly show applies real investigative tools to the claims of Christianity.

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Jay Warner Wallace. Okay, today we're going to do something that I have thought about doing

for probably 10 years on this podcast. I can't tell you how many times people have asked me

to write something. I've had publishers say, hey, your next book should be about this topic.

And I've resisted just because there's other things I'm interested in covering.

And I've been so blessed that because I have spent a career working as a detective and then

retired with the pension, I've always been able to kind of pick what I want to do now in my retirement. Really, I'm kind of, like I said before, I'm tinkering here in my retirement. And a lot of what I get to do, hopefully it was helping the church. Great. I hope it does. But it has to be interesting to me too, right? And so that, especially the deep dive it in the form of a book i think books require a certain

level of commitment in terms of scale of research if you read my books you know that the

the end notes on my books are typically pushed off into a PDF file because there's just

they're just too large to print because a lot of it is me like just tinkering with it and chipping away at a topic and then I've collected five years of data and then I write something. And this is one of those topics where I feel like it's it's an important topic. I think it's a super important topic and this is why there's so much interest in it and people want to know this is an investigation

that they would like to have an investigator take a look at and and i will tell you that i do think

that investigators are different than historians i think detectives have a certain level of we

understand that gap between uh reasonable doubt and possible doubt and we would if we're putting this

in front of a jury we would have

certain approach we would take it's not just like the historian who gets to assess an historical claim

that's never going to be in front of a jury i mean i guess the jury would be whoever reads the book

but the great thing about working in jury trials is you get a chance to argue your case and then

see if it's persuasive immediately you're going to get either going to get a verdict or you're not going to get a chance to argue your case and then see if it's persuasive immediately.

You're going to get a verdict or you're not going to get a verdict.

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