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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

The Journey from Skepticism to Certainty

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, J. Warner discusses his personal journey to Christianity with Frank Sontag from KKLA 99.5 Los Angeles. Jim spent an afternoon with Frank talking about atheism, Christian theism and the journey from one to the other. Jim also talked about the nature of the Church in America and the need for Christian Case Making.

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0:00.0

Jay Warner Wallace is a cold case homicide detective who's been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:09.2

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

0:12.9

Now we join him as he applies his investigative skills

0:15.6

to making a case for Christiana.

0:19.1

Welcome back to the Cold Case Christianity podcast.

0:21.1

I'm Jay Warner Wallace. Have you ever struggled

0:23.7

to kind of tell your own story or communicate quickly why you believe Christianity is true?

0:32.1

Well if you're right of look, you're going to end up having to do that over and over

0:35.0

and over again and in the last what ten years since writing cold case Christianity I think

0:40.8

I've told that story of how I became a Christian repeatedly.

0:45.0

It's even been challenged by some who don't believe the story.

0:48.0

Okay.

0:49.0

Or don't believe my conversion as an atheist for all those years. I think that's funny because two of the

0:55.5

chiefs that I had when I was working on the police department who knew me both before I was

0:59.6

a Christian and after I was a Christian are endorsers on my books.

1:04.0

They saw the entire thing unfold and how I used my detective skills at the time

1:09.5

to kind of examine Christianity for the first time.

1:11.8

And their names are on my books.

1:13.4

Yeah, that actually happened that way for me, but I had to tell the story and

1:17.0

learn how to tell the story and that really is a matter of editing, right?

1:20.5

Like how much just do people really need to know? So if you listen to anyone's version of their own

1:25.6

conversion story or their own story about anything, depending on who they're telling it to,

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