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The Case for Easter: Journalist Investigates the Evidence for the Resurrection
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Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Review Date: 7/4/2013
I am only posting this book on PaperBackSwap because somehow I ended up with two copies of it. Now that I am putting all my books on GoodReads.com hopefully I will stop forgetting what books I have and buying extra copies of them.
This was a very good and thorough book without being to scholarly or preachy. It is matter of fact. It is a first person account of what happened to him.
Lee Strobel at the time was an investigative journalist and his wife became a Christian, so he decided to investigate the claims of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and see if he could get his wife out of this cult called Christianity.
He interviewed a forensic pathologist, a physician and former research scientist, a former divinity school teacher who debated atheists about the resurrection, and a professor and chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Theology at a university.
He did a thorough investigation. He investigated whether Jesus was killed or could have just fainted. He checked whether Joseph of Arimathea, whose tomb Jesus was laid in, was a hoax. He investigated whether Jesus really rose from the dead. What about the soldiers? Whether people really saw Jesus after his resurrection or whether Jesus' body was just dead and stolen.
Then the author gave his conclusions.
I would be interested what an atheist who seriously read the book (rather than just wanting to rail against Christianity) thought of it.
This was a very good and thorough book without being to scholarly or preachy. It is matter of fact. It is a first person account of what happened to him.
Lee Strobel at the time was an investigative journalist and his wife became a Christian, so he decided to investigate the claims of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and see if he could get his wife out of this cult called Christianity.
He interviewed a forensic pathologist, a physician and former research scientist, a former divinity school teacher who debated atheists about the resurrection, and a professor and chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Theology at a university.
He did a thorough investigation. He investigated whether Jesus was killed or could have just fainted. He checked whether Joseph of Arimathea, whose tomb Jesus was laid in, was a hoax. He investigated whether Jesus really rose from the dead. What about the soldiers? Whether people really saw Jesus after his resurrection or whether Jesus' body was just dead and stolen.
Then the author gave his conclusions.
I would be interested what an atheist who seriously read the book (rather than just wanting to rail against Christianity) thought of it.
Review Date: 9/24/2011
This book does not stand up to other Christian books on the End Times. It is a very slow read.
Review Date: 12/21/2011
Christmas short stories by authors including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, William Gibson, Anne McCaffrey, and others.
Review Date: 5/16/2013
I don't remember where I read about this book. I only remember it was a "must read". I read the entire book, but it really wasn't for me. It revolved about several levels of telepaths - mind readers - and those that weren't mind readers. It was about those that wanted power, those that didn't want it, and those stuck in the middle of the two groups.
I'm not the most fond of mind reading books. Even if I had been fond of them I had another problem with the book. If you took out everything relating to mind reading there would be very few pages left in the book. I am sure there are other people who like mind reading books better than I do.
I'm going to see if anyone in PaperBackSwap.com is interested in having the book.
I'm not the most fond of mind reading books. Even if I had been fond of them I had another problem with the book. If you took out everything relating to mind reading there would be very few pages left in the book. I am sure there are other people who like mind reading books better than I do.
I'm going to see if anyone in PaperBackSwap.com is interested in having the book.
Review Date: 11/27/2017
Trashy
Review Date: 12/18/2011
(c)2001. "Noctambulists and Other Fictions" is a bad title. No one sleepwalks. This author has such a sense of something unique. It is sort of a collection of short stories relating to the effects of varieties of disasters semi-related together. The falling apart of society. Global cooling instead of global warming causing a variety of affects unique to this author including an advancing glacier. Zero-Negative population growth. A broken nuclear reactor causing an extended power outage. A breakdown in social services and the closing down of all nursing homes.
Review Date: 9/24/2011
This book is one of my five top Science Fiction books.
Review Date: 9/24/2011
This is one of my five top favorite Science Fiction books.
Review Date: 10/23/2013
The reason this book scored so low is the downright serious taking both the Lord Jesus Christ's and God's names in vain and the profanity in the stories that weren't Callahan's Place.
The cover picture has nothing to do with the stories in the book. The aliens are not in the book. You might say one of the ones on the cover is in a story, except he is drawn as an alien instead of a human. The lady is very sad, not happy. The other humans, unless I missed someone, do not look like anyone in the book.
60% of the short stories in this book are written for Callahan's Place(Bar) where "Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased". Many strange things happen at Callahan's Place including a time traveler story and a someone coming into this continuum from another one. There is very little profanity in the Callahan's Place stories.
There is one great chapter (IMHO) about the affect that R.A.H. (Robert A. Heinlein's) short stories and novels have had on people and the world in general. He is my favorite science fiction author.
Since it would be impractical to get the Robert A. Heinlein's chapter copies right two sided, and get them collated right, let alone the Callahan's Place also,
Since I do not want to reread the taking both the Lord Jesus Christ's and God's names in vain, which I would have to do to find which non-Callahan's Place chapter to avoid I am going to use a Sharpie® on the front cover to say read only the R.A.H. chapter and the Callahan's Place chapters.
The cover picture has nothing to do with the stories in the book. The aliens are not in the book. You might say one of the ones on the cover is in a story, except he is drawn as an alien instead of a human. The lady is very sad, not happy. The other humans, unless I missed someone, do not look like anyone in the book.
60% of the short stories in this book are written for Callahan's Place(Bar) where "Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased". Many strange things happen at Callahan's Place including a time traveler story and a someone coming into this continuum from another one. There is very little profanity in the Callahan's Place stories.
There is one great chapter (IMHO) about the affect that R.A.H. (Robert A. Heinlein's) short stories and novels have had on people and the world in general. He is my favorite science fiction author.
Since it would be impractical to get the Robert A. Heinlein's chapter copies right two sided, and get them collated right, let alone the Callahan's Place also,
Since I do not want to reread the taking both the Lord Jesus Christ's and God's names in vain, which I would have to do to find which non-Callahan's Place chapter to avoid I am going to use a Sharpie® on the front cover to say read only the R.A.H. chapter and the Callahan's Place chapters.
Review Date: 3/15/2013
This is a good start to the series that both stands up in its own right and also sets things up well for other books in the series.
This series is my favorite Police Procedurals mysteries.
This book also made me want to go to Snoqualmie Falls instead of just seeing a picture of the falls on the Lodge's pancake mix in the grocery store.
This series is my favorite Police Procedurals mysteries.
This book also made me want to go to Snoqualmie Falls instead of just seeing a picture of the falls on the Lodge's pancake mix in the grocery store.
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