I do not recommend the King James Version. It is often mistranslated. For more insight, a good study bible such as the Oxford Annotated is much more helpful. It is loaded with notes with alternate translations of difficult passages, essays on life in biblical times, writing styles of the time (pseudepigraphy will blow your mind!), maps, etc, etc.
I read the Strobel book and was not impressed at all. The word for that kind of writing is apologetic.
There is a book out by Doherty that historically refutes nearly every point Stroble makes. Here is a site with excerpts from it:
http://human.st/jesuspuzzle/ctvadvert.htm
I read the Strobel book and was not impressed at all. The word for that kind of writing is apologetic.
There is a book out by Doherty that historically refutes nearly every point Stroble makes. Here is a site with excerpts from it:
http://human.st/jesuspuzzle/ctvadvert.htm
Quote:
| Review of "Challenging the Verdict" by Lee Salisbury, former U.S. evangelical church pastor: "Well-intentioned people like Lee Strobel and his ‘expert witnesses’ in The Case for Christ have been inspired to speak half-truths, misrepresentations, and plain absurdities in defense of Christian doctrine. Earl Doherty confutes Strobel and his theologians point for point so thoroughly and convincingly that one is left wondering, how did I not see that before? Christian apologetics’ faith-based thought processes contrast with Doherty’s reasoned refutation and clearly reveal how intellectual integrity is sacrificed at religion’s altar of ‘believe at any price’." |
Enjoy your research! And don't break the bank ordering books! Just keep in mind the Baptist point of view isn't the only Christian one out there--and not necessarily the correct one either! (Don't tell my MIL I said that!) 
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