Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels

When I first watched J. Warner Wallace spoke on youtube, I'm so inspired and wished to learn more. I searched for his books in my local christian bookstore but I couldn't find it. I don't like to buy books digitally because I prefer to hold it on my hands. However, when my bookstore told me I might need to wait until middle next year for the book, I knew I need to buy it digitally to read it earlier. After I bought it, I finished reading it in few days. I am so excited to share my new knowledge with my friends so that they can believe that Christianity is true. I'm rereading it now to make notes so that I can remember it better and to become a better witness for Christ.

Simple, elegant, lucid and compelling I am super delighted to read, that Mr. Wallace, has raised a serious concern over naturalism and so called super Naturalism, with the eye intend of law. The writer in my opinion, has tried to point out, the difficulties involved in knowing the truth, and reaching important conclusions, he acknowledges, that even big attorneys fail, and juries go out of the way, and how difficult it is to form rational outcomes, and to justify the truth seeking. I am thankful to the writer of this book, who brought the problem solving dilemmas and issues to the light, and made world know that its not just Christianity, its well within the man's jungle realm, where we strive, try our best, yet even then, its sometimes misleading, and can cause a great deal of loss, the similar parallel attitude that happens in detective world, and law making decisions. 9/10, for the book's hidden content not for its case for Christian Theism (I prefer not to rate faith cases).

I enjoyed hearing the audiobook being read by the author. He makes some valid points and I learnt a number of interesting things about the Bible. I found it ironic he breached a number of his own cognitive biases. I would love to have engaged dialecticaly with him when these occurred. Similarly with his numerous false syllogisms and non sequitur arguments. Even a superficial research of Wikipedia on the historical accuracy of the New Testament would reveal this author is selective in his monologue argument (He fails to address a number of legitimate challenges to the Historical Jesus debate). I am sure it is a great read for those seeking confirmation bias anecdotes when prothletising or defending the Bible. These people are clearly his target audience. Overall though, a reasonablely good romp through the topic interspersed with modern day detective stories - even if some are only marginally relevant to serious history research.