Why an Atheist Homicide Detective Changed His Mind About the Resurrection: An interview with Detective J. Warner. Wallace

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How can a rational, intelligent person believe that Jesus rose from the dead? J. Warner Wallace, a Dateline featured cold-case homicide detective, asked this question as an atheist in his 30s. He hoped to disprove the resurrection by using the skills he developed solving unsolved murders. Instead, he proved the opposite. In this episode, he shares his journey and the evidence he found that led him to become a follower of Jesus. If you're interested in following J. Warner Wallace, check out his Twitter: https://twitter.com/jwarnerwallace (@jwarnerwallace). You can also purchase his book https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Christianity-Participants-Guide-Investigates/dp/1434711447/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=J.+Warner+Wallace&qid=1615909024&sr=8-10 (Cold-Case Christianity) online. Do you follow us on https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter)? Now's a great time to start: https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (@tmbtpodcast). Want to follow https://twitter.com/PatrickKMiller_ (Patrick) or https://twitter.com/KeithSimon_ (Keith)? Check them out here: https://twitter.com/PatrickKMiller_ (PatrickKMiller_) & KeithSimon_ Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.9	And I'm Patrick Miller. If this
0:14.2	podcast has been helping you in your walk with God, would you take five seconds to
0:19.0	help us? Hop onto Twitter and follow our new Twitter account at TMBT
0:24.7	podcast. If you go there you can see our latest episodes. You can also follow
0:29.2	Keith and I and send us messages. We'd love to follow you back and see what's happening in your life.
0:36.8	The other day I was having a conversation with an atheist
0:40.6	and we were talking about the resurrection. And he looks me straight in the face and he says I don't know how any rational
0:46.8	reasonable thinking person could possibly believe that someone rose from the dead. We know that that does not happen.
0:56.0	And I said, well that's interesting. Have you looked into the evidence of Jesus'
1:00.2	resurrection? He said, I don't have to to I've had plenty of Christians tell me all
1:04.2	about it and as we began to discuss he finally gets frustrated and he says look I
1:08.8	don't want to hear something based on feelings I don't want to hear something based on what someone just thinks or what their opinion is.
1:16.1	I want to look at real evidence and I looked at him and I said I think that the real
1:19.4	evidence might be out there. I think you might discover that there is a good reason to believe that
1:24.7	Jesus actually rose from the dead. Now maybe that's you as you're listening right now. You've
1:29.9	wondered how can we really believe that a dead person came back to life or maybe
1:35.0	that's someone that you love and your family and you've wanted to talk to them
1:38.6	about Jesus but they think no rational reasonable person out there could believe this kind of nonsense.
1:44.4	If that's you then this podcast is going to be great. It's going to be a
1:48.7	podcast that I think you want to share with those friends or at the very least
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