The Case for Christ

[blaec]

Hello, it's been about 8 months scince I was on this site (forgot my old user)

When ever I say I don't believe anything my scripture teacher tells me, she will reply "Read the book Case for Christ, its about..." .. "It's a really good book".
I get this everytime and I want to know if it is really a book worth reading. I'de also like to know your opinions if you have read it. If it was bad as in it didn't really support believable facts or any cases for atheism then please explain.

[Mog]

Haven't read the book myself but infidels.org has a thorough review of the book here: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jeff_lowder/strobel-rev.html

Googling "the case for Christ" seems to bring up all sorts of rebuttal articles in addition to the review above.
http://www.bidstrup.com/apologetics.htm
and
http://www.mwillett.org/atheism/strobel.htm

So I would say to show your scripture teacher these websites..

[PanAtheist]

Earl Doherty wrote a book demolishing "The Case for Christ".
Read excerpts here (http://humanists.net/jesuspuzzle/CTVExcerptsIntro.htm)
Buy the book here (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0968925901/qid%3D1003695637/sr%3D1-2/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F10%5F2/002-5539355-9159244)

[Tib]

do you guys read books yourself or just take other peoples word about them? Just because a critic says a movie is bad usually doesnt mean it is..

[Evil_Mage_Ra]

Reading a book takes time and effort (not to mention money, if your library doens't have it). If it seems like a particular book won't have anything substantive to say, I'd rather read a relatively short article summarizing it's arguments. If I find the article interesting, or that the argument has merit, I'll consider reading the whole book.

[Tib]

well I dont expect everyone to read every book just because, but I just wonder if sometimes people just google something find the first negative remark and post that just because that subject goes against there belief.

[schemanista]

well I dont expect everyone to read every book just because, but I just wonder if sometimes people just google something find the first negative remark and post that just because that subject goes against there belief.
I've read The Case for Christ. Those reviews are spot-on.

Strobel couldn't argue his way out of a paper bag. Were he an attorney, Jesus would be doing time and Strobel would face the ethics committee.

Care to discuss the book in detail?

[Mog]

Well, Tlb, its kind of funny, but the first review on amazon.com's site of the book, (the first thing got googled.) happened to be by that infidels.org guy. Maybe I wasn't being fair by only showing negative reviews, but the guy already got a glowing review from the scripture teacher for the book and the reviews that I cited were pretty dang thorough about the contents of the book, anyway.

[snap crafter]

do you guys read books yourself or just take other peoples word about them? Just because a critic says a movie is bad usually doesnt mean it is..
Hmm, I never talk about a book unless I read it, and my library is pretty far along by now.

[vheltrite]

so whats the dace???

[ghoulslime]

do you guys read books yourself or just take other peoples word about them? Just because a critic says a movie is bad usually doesnt mean it is..
We just take other people’s word for it. Most of us are illiterate. That’s why we are atheists. We can’t read god’s word. He should have made some comic books so that we could look at the pictures.

[Tib]

oh thanks for clearing that up for me ghoulslime...

[PanAtheist]

I read the most-important-book-in-the-world, and it put me off reading for life.

[kmisho]

I am one who actually have bothered to read a number of case for jesus or case for god books.

EVERY pro-jesus book I have ever read refers to already largely discredited texts like Josephus and Tacitus. It's clear the writers are relying on the ignorance of the choir to which they preach.

EVERY pro-god book I have ever read uses the god-of-the-gaps, improbablity and strong anthropic principle arguments...all of which have also been discredited.

[HMS Beagle]

I want to know if it is really a book worth reading.
Why don't you just read it yourself and find out?

[Erik]

My advice is -- don't bother. Go read a Carl Hiassen book or practice a musical instrument or something. Strobel deserves a collective shrug for the awful "The Case for Faith", and as has been pointed out here, gets shredded by Dougherty. And perhaps you are thinking that your teacher will return the favor by reading your favorite skeptical book. Fat chance. I've been suckered this way three times and do not intend to ever pick up another Christian piece of junk unless the Christian reads one of my favorites cover to cover first.

[calpurnpiso]

Hmmm..the case for Christ? Why not the Case for Iulius Caesar the real person behind the myth?..:)

http://www.carotta.de/subseite/texte/jwc_e/contents.html