A thank you is due Rev. Dr. J. Kevin Livingstone for his letter in the Record regarding the review of Jack Roger's book. We don't need books of this nature muddying the waters. Instead I give you The Case For the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel.
The book addresses six challenges to Christianity:
- Scholars are uncovering a radically different Jesus in ancient documents just as credible as the four gospels
- The Bible's portrait of Jesus can't be trusted because the church tampered with the text
- New explanations have rejected Jesus' resurrection
- Christianity's belief about Jesus were copied from pagan religion
- Jesus was an imposter who failed to fulfill the messianic prophecies
- People should be free to pick and choose what to believe about Jesus
All the above are answered by professors in the fields of ancient religions, mythology, ancient history and the dating of ancient manuscripts.
Of great interest is the author's statement that, “It was my agnostic wife's conversion to Christianity and the ensuing positive changes in her character that prompted me to search for the real Jesus.”
Witnessing is so very important.
