The New and Improved Cold-Case Christianity | with J. Warner Wallace

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

"You can't trust the New Testament writers because they were Christians!" How many times have you heard that objection? Atheists and skeptics often claim that the life of Jesus has been embellished throughout the centuries and that the eyewitness testimonies recorded in the Gospels are biased. But is it reasonable to believe that the New Testament authors were motivated to create or exaggerate the resurrection story for their own benefit?

In 2013, homicide detective turned Christian apologist, J. Warner Wallace, released the now modern-day apologetics classic, 'Cold-Case Christianity', to address those questions and it changed lives around the world! But how could a book as great as 'Cold-Case Christianity' be made even better? This week on the podcast, Jim talks to Frank about why he's releasing an updated and expanded edition of the book for its 10th anniversary while also answering questions like:

Is Jim REALLY a cold-case detective?
Why is visual content so important?
What is the "chain of custody" and how did Jim use it in his investigation of the New Testament?
What can Chihuahuas and Great Danes teach us about apologetics?
What problems do we face as a culture living in a personality driven world?
Is your biblical definition of "hope" totally wrong?

If you loved the first edition of 'Cold-Case Christianity', you'll DEFINITELY want to get your hands on the newest version with 300 new illustrations, bonus sections (including a cool new section on archaeology), as well as a new afterword responding to 12 of the most commonly asked questions about the reliability of the New Testament. And if you pre-order your special edition copy of 'Cold-Case Christianity' TODAY, you'll also receive a FREE digital copy along with a boatload of bonus resources!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.4	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:05.6	Does God exist?
0:07.4	So when someone says there is no truth,
0:09.8	if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:12.6	Is that true?
0:15.3	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:18.4	They're talked out of it.
0:20.1	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.1	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.3	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:28.1	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.
0:32.9	Ladies and gentlemen, if I was going to give one book to someone who wanted to know whether or not
0:37.6	the New Testament documents were telling the truth, it would be cold-case Christianity written
0:44.4	by my friend Detective J. Warner Wallace. Well, that book has actually been improved, believe it
0:50.0	or not. It's hard to improve a modern-day classic, but Jim has. Because the first one came about
0:55.6	10 years ago in 2013. Here we are 10 years later and he's updated it.
1:01.5	The question is, how do you make a great book better and the great J. Warner Wallace
1:06.3	is going to tell us, Jim, how did you make cold-case Christianity better?
1:09.2	What'd you do? Well, I hope I made it better. I mean, who knows, right?
1:12.4	I mean, that's the hope anyway. But a lot of it was because I knew that I had to,
1:17.7	well, I was recording the audio version of the old book. I hadn't done that the first eight years.
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