The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict

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User's guide -- Explanation of general format -- He changed my life -- Introduction -- Part one : The case for the Bible. The uniqueness of the Bible -- How we got the Bible -- Is the New Testament historically reliable? -- Is the Old Testament historically reliable? -- Part two : The case for Jesus. Jesus, a man of history -- If Jesus wasn't God, he deserves an Oscar -- Significance of deity : the trilemma : Lord, liar, or lunatic? -- Support of deity : Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in Jesus Christ -- Support of deity : the resurrection : hoax or history? -- Support of deity : the great proposition -- Part three : The case for and against Christianity. Is the Bible from God? -- The presupposition of anti-supernaturalism -- Archaeology and biblical criticism -- Introduction to the documentary hypothesis -- Introduction to biblical criticism -- Introduction to the Pentateuch -- Development of the documentary hypothesis -- Ground rules -- Documentary presuppositions -- Consequences of radical higher criticism -- Evidence for Mosaic authorship -- The phenomenon of divine names -- The repetition of accounts and alleged contradictions -- Incongruities -- Internal diversity -- Conclusion to the documentary hypothesis -- Introduction to New Testament form criticism -- Historical skepticism -- Jesus under fire -- Conclusion to form criticism -- Modern theology and biblical criticism / C.S. Lewis -- Part four : Truth or consequences. Personal note from the author -- The nature of truth -- The knowability of truth -- Answering postmodernism -- Answering skepticism -- Answering agnosticism -- Answering mysticism -- Certainty vs. certitude -- Defending miracles -- Is history knowable? -- Biographical sketches of selected authors -- The four spiritual laws.