Book Review of The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel Part 16: My Conclusion

(Book Review)

See Part 1 General Comments

Part 2: An Overview of Lee Strobel’sArgument that the Gospels are Based on Eyewitness Evidence

Part 3: Even if the Gospels Were Based on Eyewitnesses Evidence, That Would Not, Ipso Facto, Mean That They Were 100% Reliable

Part 4: Even if Lee Strobel Were Able to Prove that the Church Tradition about the Gospels Was Correct, Most of the Gospel Stories Still Would Not Be Based on Eyewitness Testimony

Part 5: Why the Church Tradition on the Apostolic Authorship of the Gospels is Incorrect

Part 6: The Gospels Do Not Contain Any Internal Evidence that they were Written by the Apostles.

Part 7:  Problems with Church Tradition Concerning the Apostolic Authorship of the Gospels

Part 8: Linguistic, Literacy, Cultural, and Geographic Problems Which Indicate the Gospels Were Not Written by the Apostles

Part 9: The Synoptic Problem and the Q Hypothesis

Part 10:  The Problem of the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospels of John

Part 11: The Problems with Luke

Part 12: Does It Matter That the Gospels are Anonymous?

Part 13: Lee Strobel’s Argument that Church Tradition is True because Church Tradition Says It Is

Part 14: Lee Strobel’s Argument that Church Tradition Must Be True Because the Church Would Have No Reason To Lie

Part 15: Lee Strobel’s Attempt to Explain Why Matthew is Copying from John-Mark

            Okay, so I have not gotten close to covering this whole book.  I’ve just covered the problems with the first 10 pages.  If I were so inclined, and if I had an infinite amount of free time and nothing else to do, I could easily keep going like this through all 271 pages of the book.

            I’m not going to, but just because I’m giving up here does not mean the rest of the book is not problematic.  The huge leaps in logic, the self-contradictions, and the misrepresentations and falsehoods that I’ve pointed out on the first 10 pages continue all the way through the rest of the book. 

            If you’ve been reading my review carefully so far, I hope I’ve done enough to show that the book is complete nonsense, and that at this point we can just write the rest of it off, and that it would be pointless to go on debunking every stupid thing Lee Strobel says when we’ve already proven there’s no point in taking him seriously.

            Much more likely, you probably haven’t been carefully reading everything I’ve been writing.  You probably have only glanced briefly at these dense, text-filled computer screens, before getting a headache and going on to do something else.  But in that case as well, all the more reason to stop writing now rather then continue to waste my life writing long rebuttals of forgotten Christian apologetic books that no one is reading.  Either way, we’ve come to the end of this review.

            If you do continue on with The Case for Christ, you shouldn’t need my assistance to see how stupid the whole thing is.  Just make sure you:

1) Always look up every biblical reference Lee Strobel gives to see if it actually means what he’s claiming it means (much of the time it doesn’t), and

2) Always double check to see if modern scholarship says what Lee Strobel is actually claiming it says (most of the time it isn’t), and

3) Just use your own common sense.

Next: Addendum 1: Lee Strobel and the Problem of Hell