During the past, I was alarmed out of my comfort zone by a preview of an upcoming film called The Case for Christ. For anyone who might not recognize the title (which is to say anyone who didn’t grow up evangelical Christian in the 80s or 90s), The Case for Christ is a widely-read book of Christian apologetics by Lee Strobel.
Somewhere, somebody thought making a film based one The Case for Christ is a good idea. But why?
Strobel, in his early days, was a legal journalist for the Chicago Tribune and an confirmed atheist who set about to use his journalistic tools and legal mind to contradict Christianity before the court of Reason, only to discover that the “case for Christ” — including the historicity of the resurrection — is actually a slam-dunk in the other direction.
For Strobel (as for many other evangelical apologists of his ilk), if you neutrally but honestly apply the rigors of historical skepticism and journalistic investigation into the question of Jesus’ historicity and the integrity of the gospels, you end up with an epistemologically-confident assumption: the New Testament is objectively, demonstrably true, and therefore Christianity must be the one, true, right religion.
When an “award-winning” atheist journalist sets out to disprove Christianity once and for all, and he winds up a convinced, faithful Christian believer — case closed!
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