Why the Historicity of Jesus Is So Important?

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner talks about the importance of being able to make the case for the historicity of Jesus. In a generation ever more skeptical of the real existence of Jesus, now is the time to familiarize ourselves with the evidence so we can establish Jesus as a real and legitimate source of wisdom.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective.
0:07.0	Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating Cold Case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.
0:12.0	His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV. murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.
0:12.8	His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline.
0:17.4	For more information about Jim's work and the case for Christianity,
0:20.7	please visit coldcase Christianity.com.
0:23.0	Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.
0:26.0	Welcome to Cold Case Christianity.
0:29.0	I'm Jay Warner Wallace.
0:30.0	This week we're going to talk about the historicity of Jesus. How do we know that Jesus
0:35.2	was in fact a real person in history? And although for a lot of you who are watching this
0:40.5	you might say, really? Do we have to make a case for whether or not
0:44.4	Jesus really I mean many of us have assumed this even as an atheist for all the
0:49.0	years I was an unbeliever I never really challenged or questioned the existence of a guy named Jesus.
0:55.6	I simply would have challenged whether or not Jesus did all the things that were reported
0:59.6	in the Gospels, whether or not anything supernatural or miraculous was associated to Jesus
1:05.0	that was actually true. These things for sure I would have challenged, but
1:08.2	I would not have challenged whether or not Jesus was an actual historical
1:11.6	figure just because what I did know about history seemed
1:15.1	to affirm the existence of the man named Jesus.
1:19.8	All that being said, I think that things have changed over the last say 10 years especially now the very
1:25.2	first cold-case Christianity broadcast that we did on the NRB network and that was now posted at our YouTube page you can get there by going to cold
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