The Bible Was Right After All

Bible critics and skeptics abound, but there are inspiring cases of some who have changed
their minds. What kind of evidence brought about their surprising turnarounds?

by Mario Seiglie

By all accounts, Lee Strobel was an ardent Bible critic. This award-winning journalist of the Chicago Tribune didn't believe in God or the Bible. Having graduated from Yale Law School, he had honed his skills in reporting important legal cases and had little respect for the Holy Scriptures.

"For much of my life," he writes, "I was a skeptic. In fact, I considered myself an atheist. To me, there was far too much evidence that God was merely a product of wishful thinking, of ancient mythology, of primitive superstition "The Case for Christ, 1998, p. 13).

Yet he came to admit there was a hidden reason for his skepticism about God and Christianity: "I had read just enough philosophy and history to find support for my skepticism—a fact here, a scientific theory there, a pithy quote, a clever argument. Sure, I could see some gaps and inconsistencies, but I had a strong motivation to ignore them: a self-serving and immoral lifestyle that I would be compelled to abandon if I were ever to change my views and become a follower of Jesus" (ibid.).

Accepting a challenge from his wife, however, he launched into a thorough investigation concerning God, the Bible and Jesus Christ. "I plunged into the case," he continues, "with more vigor than with any story I had ever pursued. I applied the training I had received at Yale Law School as well as my experience as legal affairs editor of the Chicago Tribune. And over time the evidence of the world—of history, of science, of philosophy, of psychology—began to point to the unthinkable" (p. 14).

The "unthinkable" for Mr. Strobel meant reluctantly accepting he had been wrong. He spent two years carefully gathering evidence as if he were conducting a court trial, including interviewing 13 leading scholars with impeccable credentials. The results stunned him, and he grudgingly accepted that the Bible was true and that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. As a consequence, he mentions in his book, he became a Christian.

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The Bible Was Right After All

Bible critics and skeptics abound, but there are inspiring cases of some who have changed their minds. What kind of evidence brought about their surprising turnarounds?

by Mario Seiglie

Read the full article at www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn47/biblewasright.htm

Bible critics and skeptics abound, but there are inspiring cases of some who have changed
their minds. What kind of evidence brought about their surprising turnarounds?