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Essay / The Arguments for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Testimony...
Being a Christian and a communications student, I felt compelled to read The Arguments for Christ. I decided to use this book for this review, especially because of the large number of reviews and negative reactions it received. Lee Strobel is known as a skeptical and uncompromising journalist and former investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He also described himself as a "former spiritual skeptic" before his personal mission for the proof of God. Skeptics around the world claim that either Jesus never said he was God or that he never exemplified the activities and mentality of God. Regardless, they rather triumphantly proclaim that Jesus was just a man. Some will go so far as to suggest that he was a very moral and special man, but a man nonetheless. For Strobel, there was far too much evidence against the idea of God, let alone the possibility that God had become a man. God was just mythology, superstition, or wishful thinking. What initially caught my interest were the questions Strobel posed in the courtroom to the book's experts, rather than bulldozing a logical path to solutions. To name a few, he interviews Catholic secular philosopher Peter Kreeft on the problem of evil, Indian-born evangelist Ravi Zacharias on Christian exclusivism, historian John Woodbridge on oppression in the name of Christ and other authorities on the truth of miracles and the insensitivity of God. in the Hebrew Bible, the justice of hell, the challenge of evolution and the struggle against persistent doubt. The Case for Christ was written in the style of an investigative report with bluntly asked questions, forcing top academics to give comprehensible arguments to support their opinions and conclusions. Strobel believed that this would bring complex theological concepts and historical questions to an accessible level, where he would gather concrete facts through these interviews. “I confront leading evangelical thinkers with the kind of skeptical objections that are shared by a lot of people,” he said in an interview with Zondervan Church Source (2005). In the first section, Strobel investigates what he calls the archive, where he interviews eyewitnesses, accounts, and other evidence from outside the Bible. For example, asking questions such as "Does archeology help or harm the cause of Christ?" » The second section focuses on the analysis of Jesus himself. Did Jesus really think he was God? In his investigation of the evidence for Jesus, Strobel uses the Old Testament as a sketch of what God is supposed to be like..