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141 " Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God’s discipline isn’t pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it. "
― Lee Strobel , The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
142 " on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. "
― Lee Strobel , Case for Christ Study Bible-NIV: Investigating the Evidence for Belief
143 " The idea that Jesus never really died on the cross can be found in the Qur’an,1 which was written in the seventh century—in fact, Ahmadiya Muslims contend that Jesus actually fled to India. To this day there’s a shrine that supposedly marks his real burial place in Srinagar, Kashmir.2 "
― Lee Strobel , The Case for Christ
144 " Contrast that with the depiction of Jesus Christ in the gospels. They talk about someone who actually lived several decades earlier, and they name names—crucified under Pontius Pilate, when Caiaphas was the high priest, and the father of Alexander and Rufus carried his cross, for example. That’s concrete historical stuff. It has nothing in common with stories about what supposedly happened ‘once upon a time. "
― Lee Strobel , The Case for Christ/The Case for Faith
145 " Crossan also gives credence to what he calls the Cross Gospel. “Does that fare any better?” I asked. “No, most scholars don’t give it credibility, because it includes such outlandishly legendary material. For instance, Jesus comes out of his tomb and he’s huge—he goes up beyond the sky—and the cross comes out of the tomb and actually talks! Obviously, the much more sober gospels are more reliable than anything found in this account. It fits better with later apocryphal writings. In fact, it’s dependent on biblical material, so it should be dated later. "
146 " Physicist Paul Davies 1 Would "
― Lee Strobel , The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
147 " The theological truth is based on historical truth. That’s the way the New Testament talks. Look at the sermon of Peter in the second chapter of Acts. He stands up and says, ‘You guys are a witness of these things; they weren’t done in secret. David’s tomb is still with us, but God has raised Jesus from the dead. Therefore we proclaim him to be the Son of God.’ “Take away miracles and you take away the Resurrection, and then you’ve got nothing to proclaim. Paul said that if Jesus wasn’t raised from the dead, our faith is futile, it’s useless, it’s empty. "
148 " Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide. "
― Lee Strobel , The Case for Hope: Looking Ahead With Confidence and Courage
149 " believe in Jesus on the basis of the historical evidence, but my relationship with Jesus goes way beyond the evidence. I have to put my trust in him and walk with him on a daily basis. "
150 " Science and religion . . . are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there’s a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don’t agree. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that if people in this so-called “scientific age” knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they’d find it easier to share my view. Physicist and theologian John Polkinghorne "
151 " Back at my motel, I mentally played back my interview with Boyd. I felt the same way he did: If the Jesus of faith is not also the Jesus of history, he’s powerless and he’s meaningless. Unless he’s rooted in reality, unless he established his divinity by rising from the dead, he’s just a feel-good symbol who’s as irrelevant as Santa Claus. "
152 " Martin Hengel said that the only difference between a fundamentalist and a radical liberal is their starting presuppositions. "
― Lee Strobel , The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ
153 " Martin Hengel said that the only difference between a fundamentalist and a radical liberal is their starting presuppositions. Their methods are the same: they start with where they want to end up and then look at all the evidence selective for their purposes, rather than being open to what the evidence actually reveals. "
154 " The question of what Jesus thought about himself is a critical issue. Some professors maintain that the myth of Jesus’ deity was superimposed on the Jesus tradition by overzealous supporters years after his death. The real Jesus, these professors believe, would roll over in his grave if he knew people were worshiping him. If you strip away the legends and go back to the earliest material about him, they say you’ll find he never aspired to be anything more than an itinerant teacher and occasional rabble-rouser. "
155 " In the ancient world the idea of writing dispassionate, objective history merely to chronicle events, with no ideological purpose, was unheard of. Nobody wrote history if there wasn’t a reason to learn from it.” I smiled. “I suppose you could say that makes everything suspect,” I suggested. “Yes, at one level it does,” he replied. “But if we can reconstruct reasonably accurate history from all kinds of other ancient sources, we ought to be able to do that from the gospels, even though they too are ideological. "
156 " As we look out at the billions of stars that constitute our Milky Way galaxy,” I said, “can’t we logically assume that planets teeming with life are strewn all over the place?” “No,” he said unequivocally, “that’s not a logical assumption based on the evidence. "
157 " Turn to God for help not as a last resort, but as a first priority. "
158 " Yo necesitaba desesperadamente absorber esta verdad de nuevo: estoy más allá del perdón. Soy más que un sirviente. He sido adoptado por un Padre cuyo amor es perfecto, cuya aceptación es incondicional, cuyo afecto nunca acaba y cuya generosidad no tiene límites. Un Padre que está de mi parte… para siempre. "
159 " So if someone were to say he was God, that wouldn’t have made any sense to them and would have been seen as clear-cut blasphemy. And it would have been counterproductive to Jesus in his efforts to get people to listen to his message. "
160 " The Stones and the Scriptures; The Scriptures and Archaeology; and The World of the First Christians "