Notes
Introduction: It Is a Thing Most Wonderful
1. “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” Pew Research Center, May 12, 2015, www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/.
2. Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, “Nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate origin,” discussion at University of Oxford, February 23, 2012, YouTube video, 11:00, posted by “Anglican08,” February 24, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQk4NfW7g0.
3. “It Is a Thing Most Wonderful,” words by William Walsham How (1823–1897), 1872.
4. “We’ve a Story to Tell to the Nations,” words by H. Ernest Nichol (1862–1928), 1896.
Chapter 1: Man, Myth, or Messiah?
1. Albert Schweitzer; W. Montgomery (trans.), The Quest of the Historical Jesus, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001; orig. 1910), 6.
2. SNL Transcripts, http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86qheaven.phtml.
3. Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s Pensées (Radford, VA: Wilder Publications, 2011), 61.
4. Michael Shermer, “God’s Number Is Up,” Scientific American, July 2004, http://www.michaelshermer.com/2004/07/gods-number-is-up/.
5. Lawrence Krauss, Krauss discusses his book A Universe from Nothing, The Colbert Report, June 21, 2012, Comedy Central video, 5:00, http://www.cc.com/video-clips/e6ik9l/the-colbert-report-lawrence-krauss.
6. Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (New York: Bantam, 2010), 5.
7. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 2nd ed. (Rand McNally & Company, 1874), 133–4.
8. J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, Daniel B. Wallace, Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006), 16.
9. W. J. Prior, “The Socratic Problem” in ed. Hugh H. Benson, A Companion to Plato (West Sussex, UK: Blackwell, 2006), 25–35.
10. Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (New York: Random House, 2013), 35.
11. John Veitch, The Meditations and Selections from the Principles, of René Descartes (Sacramento: BiblioLife, 2009), 130.
12. Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, 478.
13. Craig S. Keener, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 15–17.
14. Stephen T. Davis, Risen Indeed: Making Sense of the Resurrection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), 192.
15. Michael Grant, Jesus: An Historian’s Review of the Gospels (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 182.
16. Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944).
17. N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the Victory of God, vol. 2 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), 110.
18. Saint Augustine, Confessions of St. Augustine, 1.1.
19. Richard J. Evans, In Defense of History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), 219.
20. Gerald O’Collins, Easter Faith: Believing in the Risen Jesus (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2003), 34.
Chapter 2: The Minimal Facts
1. Michael Licona, in Lee Strobel, The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007), 112.
2. Gary R. Habermas, “The Minimal Facts Approach to the Resurrection of Jesus: The Role of Methodology as a Crucial Component in Establishing Historicity,” August 2, 2012, http://www.garyhabermas.com/articles/southeastern_theological_review/minimal-facts-methodology_08-02-2012.htm.
3. Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010), 28.
4. Paul L. Maier, In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991), 197.
5. Craig S. Keener, “Assumptions in Historical Jesus Research: Using Ancient Biographies and Disciples’ Traditioning as a Control,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 9 (2011), 30.
6. Richard Dawkins, “Has Science Buried God,” 2008 Richard Dawkins v. John Lennox debate sponsored by Fixed Point Foundation, Dawkins admits Jesus existed, YouTube video, 0:39, posted by “fusion channel,” April 12, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ant5HS01tBQ.
7. Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (New York: HarperOne, 2012), 7.
8. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, History of European Morals, from Augustus to Charlemagne (New York: D. Appleton, 1897), 2:8–9.
9. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 18.63–64.
10. Tacitus, Annals, 15.44.
11. Lucian of Samosata, The Works of Lucian of Samosata, trans. H. W. Fowler (Digireads.com), 472.
12. Jacob Neusner, trans. The Talmud of Babylonia: Sanhedrin (Tampa: University of South Florida, 1984), 43A.
13. John T. Carroll and Joel B. Green, Death of Jesus in Early Christianity (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995), 166. See also page 21, where Jesus’ death is considered a “virtual certainty.”
14. Gary R. Habermas and Michael Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2004), 70.
15. Habermas, “The Minimal Facts Approach to the Resurrection of Jesus.”
16. N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003), 3:686–96.
17. Digesta Iustiniani: Liber 48 (Mommsen and Krueger), 48.24.3, accessed April 13, 2014, http://droitromain.upmf-grenoble.fr/Corpus/d-48.htm.
18. Flavius Josephus, The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, trans. William Whiston, new upd. ed. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987), 798.
19. Craig A. Evans, “Getting the Burial Traditions and Evidence Right,” in How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine Nature—A Response to Bart D. Ehrman, ed. Michael F. Bird (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014), 76; also see pages 71–93.
20. Craig Keener, personal correspondence to author, August 19, 2015.
21. Luke Timothy Johnson, The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986), 96–97 (emphasis in original).
22. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 20.9.1.
23. Sean McDowell, “Did the Apostles Really Die as Martyrs for Their Faith?” Biola magazine, Fall 2013, http://magazine.biola.edu/article/13-fall/did-the-apostles-really-die-as-martyrs-for-their-f/.
24. Craig S. Keener, Acts: An Exegetical Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012), 1:271–304.
25. Gary R. Habermas, Evidence for the Historical Jesus: Is the Jesus of History the Christ of Faith? e-book, rev. ed. (June 2015), 16; www.garyhabermas.com/evidence.
26. “Evidence for the Resurrection: Minimal Facts Approach,” Ratio Christi—Campus Apologetics Alliance, http://ratiochristi.org/uah/blog/post/evidence-for-the-resurrection-minimal-facts-approach.
27. Eusebius, Church History, 2.25.8.
28. Habermas and Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, 65.
29. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 20.200.
30. Robert L. Web, “Jesus’ Baptism: Its Historicity and Implications,” Bible.org, August 2, 2005, https://bible.org/article/jesus-baptism-its-historicity-and-implications.
31. For example, E. P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985), 11.
Chapter 3: We Can Trust the Gospels
1. F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents—Are They Reliable? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981), 90–91.
2. Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010), 176.
3. Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (New York: Random House, 2013), xxvi.
4. For additional information, see F. F. Bruce, The Canon of Scripture (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988); and Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006). However, Bauckham does present a different view on the authorship of John.
5. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.1.1.
6. Eusebius, Church History, 3.39.
7. Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 155.
8. Eusebius, Church History, 3.39.
9. James Patrick Holding, Trusting the New Testament (Maitland, FL: Xulon Press, 2009), http://www.tektonics.org/ntdocdef/mattdef.php.
10. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.1.1.
11. Ibid., 3.14.1.
12. Eusebius, Church History, 6.14.5–7.
13. Quintus Tertullian, Against Marcion, 4.5.
14. Eusebius, Church History, 6.25.6.
15. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.1.1; 2.22.5; 3.3.4. See also Keith Thompson, “Who Wrote the Gospels?,” Answering Islam: A Christian-Muslim Dialog, http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/thompson/gospel_authorship.htm.
16. Brent Nongbri, “The Use and Abuse of P52: Papyrological Pitfalls in the Dating of the Fourth Gospel,” Harvard Theological Review 98, no. 1 (August 2, 2005): 23–48, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=327943.
17. Daniel B. Wallace, “Daniel B. Wallace on the New Testament Documents,” Apologetics 315 (blog), July 8, 2012, http://www.apologetics315.com/2012/07/daniel-b-wallace-on-new-testament.html.
18. Jona Lendering, “Alexander the Great: the ‘good’ sources,” Livius.org, http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_z1b.html.
19. Robin Seager, Tiberius (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), 232–42. The one commonly cited very early source is Velleius Paterculus, who was a contemporary of Tiberius. However, a general concern for his writings is extreme bias.
20. John W. Wenham, Christ and the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984), 187; Craig Bloomberg, Can We Still Believe the Bible?: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2014), 27.
21. Craig S. Keener, Acts: An Exegetical Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013), 3:289–94.
22. Mark D. Roberts, Can We Trust the Gospels?: Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2007), 64.
23. Ibid., 157.
24. Ibid., 133.
25. Keener, Acts, 2:216.
26. Robin Schumacher, “The Gospel According to Bart Ehrman,” Apologetics 315 (blog), July 8, 2013, http://www.apologetics315.com/2013/07/the-gospel-according-to-bart-ehrman.html.
27. Mark Shea, “Discrepancies in the Gospels,” © 2007, Mark-Shea.com, http://www.mark-shea.com/ditg.html.
28. J. Warner Wallace, Cold Case Christianity (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2013).
29. Craig Blomberg, Historical Reliability of the Gospels (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1987), 203–4.
30. Ibid., 248.
Chapter 4: The Crucifixion
1. The Greek word used in the Gospels for hand also includes the wrist and forearm.
2. The full medical and historical details of Jesus’ death are described in the following article: William D. Edwards, Wesley J. Gabel, and Floyd E. Hosmer, “On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ,” JAMA 255, no. 11 (March 21, 1986): 1455–63.
3. Ann Gauger and Douglas Axe, Science of Human Origins (Seattle: Discovery Institute Press, 2012), 45–84.
4. Ibid., 105–22.
5. For a detailed argument, see C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
6. For a detailed treatment of this topic, see Brian Dodd, The Problem with Paul (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996); or Craig S. Keener and Glenn Usry’s Defending Black Faith: Answers to Tough Questions About African-American Christianity (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997).
Chapter 5: The Resurrection
1. Gary R. Habermas, “My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism: An Exclusive Interview with Former British Atheist Professor Antony Flew.” Available at http://www.deism.com/antony_flew_Deism_interview.pdf.
2. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (New York: Routledge, 1959).
3. William Lane Craig and Sean McDowell, “Should Christians apologize for their faith?,” Fervr, February 24, 2013, http://fervr.net/bible/should-christians-apologize-for-their-faith.
4. N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003), 3:6.
5. Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jesus—God and Man (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977), 109.
6. Joseph W. Bergeron and Gary R. Habermas, “The Resurrection of Jesus: A Clinical Review of Psychiatric Hypotheses for the Biblical Story of Easter,” Irish Theological Quarterly 80, no. 2 (2015): 171; also see 157–72.
7. Matt Slick, “Jesus only appeared to have died on the cross—Swoon theory,” CARM, https://carm.org/swoon-theory.
8. Lee Strobel, The Case for Easter: A Journalist Investigates the Evidence for the Resurrection, Kindle ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009), Kindle locations 279–,).
9. Bart Ehrman, How Jesus Became God (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), 164.
10. Dr. George Wood, personal interview with author, June 20, 2015, Juneau, Alaska.
11. Clement, Letter to the Corinthians 42.1–4.
12. Gary R. Habermas, “Video Debates and Lectures with Dr. Gary R. Habermas,” http://garyhabermas.com/video/video.htm.
Chapter 6: Dispelling the Myths
1. J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, Daniel B. Wallace, Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006), 237.
2. For a fuller critique see James Patrick Holding, “Horus and Osiris vs Jesus,” Tekton Apologetics, tektonics.org/copycat/osy.php.
3. Stephen J. Bedard, “Exposing the Spirit of the Age: A Response to the Zeitgeist Movie,” The Poached Egg, April 9, 2013, www.thepoachedegg.net/the-poached-egg/2013/04/exposing-the-spirit-of-the-age-a-response-to-the-zeitgeist-movie.html.
4. Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (New York: HarperOne, 2012), 5.
5. Komoszewski, Reinventing Jesus, 234.
6. Ibid, 318.
7. Jonathan Z. Smith, “Dying and Rising Gods,” Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. Lindsay Jones (Detroit: Macmillan, 2005 [original: 1987]), 4:2535. See also www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2012/10/08/what-are-the-parallels-between-jesus-and-the-divine-men-of-the-ancient-world-part-3/.
8. A classic example is Karen Armstrong, History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (New York: Random House, 1993).
9. James D. G. Dunn, A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology) (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005), 44.
10. Ibid., 50.
11. William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (Wheaton, IL: Good News, 2008), 391.
12. Craig S. Keener, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009), 333.
13. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?, 26.
14. Richard Carrier, On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014).
15. Adapted from Alan Anderson, “The Alleged Parallels Between Jesus and Pagan Gods,” Examiner.com, July 29, 2012, http://www.examiner.com/article/the-alleged-parallels-between-jesus-and-pagan-gods.
16. Michael J. Wilkins, Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), 138.
17. Fitzedward Hall, trans. Vishnu Purán: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition (Amazon: Ulan Press, 2012), 4:294, https://archive.org.
18. Prayson Daniel, “Refuting Krishna Myth Parallelism to Christianity,” With All I Am, April 26, 2011, https://withalliamgod.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/refuting-krishna-myth-parallelism-to-christianity/.
19. William Joseph Wilkins, Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic (Boston: Elibron, 2005), 217–18.
20. Benjamin Walker, The Hindu World: An Encyclopedic Survey of Hinduism (New York: Praeger, 1983), 1:240–41.
21. Jack Finegan, Myth and Mystery: An Introduction to the Pagan Religions of the Biblical World (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1989), 203–7.
22. Ronald Nash, The Gospel and the Greeks: Did the New Testament Borrow from Pagan Thought? (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2003), 137.
23. Gary Lease, “Mithraism and Christianity: Borrowings and Transformations,” in Wolfgan Haase, ed., Aufsteig und Niedergang der Romischen Welt (Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 1972), 2:1316.
24. Komoszewski, Reinventing Jesus, 226.
25. Ronald Nash, “Was the New Testament Influenced by Pagan Religions?,” Christian Research Journal (Winter 1994): 8.
26. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?, 25.
27. The early Christians never claimed that Jesus was born on December 25.
28. For fuller treatment of responses to such pagan parallels, see Gregory A. Boyd, The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007).
Chapter 7: Jesus the Messiah
1. Dr. Stephen Meyer, telephone interview with author, June 15, 2015.
2. Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (London: Orion, 2004), 133.
3. Sam Harris, Free Will (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 5.
4. Marvin Olasky and John Perry, Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial (Nashville: Broadman, 2005), 160; http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/scopestrial/1/sources/48/fulltext/.
5. Craig S. Keener, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 257.
6. William Lane Craig, On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2010), 199.
7. John Weldon, John Ankerberg, and Walter G. Kaiser, The Case for Jesus the Messiah (Bellingham, WA: ATRI, 2011), 223.
8. For a more extensive discussion, see “Dr. Michael Brown Reveals the Real Messiah,” AskDrBrown.org, http://realmessiah.askdrbrown.org.
9. Michael L. Brown, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: General and Historical Objections (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 3:49–85.
10. Charles Spurgeon, “God with Us,” Metropolitan Tabernacle, December 26, 1875, Spurgeon Gems, http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols19-21/chs1270.pdf.
11. The exact calculation for the appearance of the Messiah is debated, but the fact that the expected time falls in the general time period of Jesus’ ministry is generally agreed.
12. Craig, On Guard, 195.
13. For more in-depth discussion, see Richard Bauckham, God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999); and Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).
14. Borrowed perhaps from “He Is,” words and music by Jeoffrey Benward and Jeff Silvey. © 1994 Birdwing Music, ASCAP /Shepherd’s Fold Music (BMI). All rights reserved.
15. David Limbaugh, The Emmaus Code: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament (Regnery Publishing, 2015); Kindle version: Location 380–383).
Chapter 8: Miracles
1. Hwa Yung, in Craig S. Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011), 264.
2. Craig S. Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011), 264.
3. Rice Broocks, God’s Not Dead (Nashville: W Publishing, 2013), chaps. 4 and 5.
4. John Lennox, Miracles: Is Belief in the Supernatural Irrational? (Amazon Digital Services, 2013), Kindle location 354–57.
5. Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 197–200.
6. Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz, Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1996), 290.
7. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 18.63–64.
8. Marcus Borg, Jesus, A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1987), 61.
9. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 2.31.2–4.
10. Athanasius, Letters (AD 354), 49.9.
11. William Lane Craig, “The Problem of Miracles: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective,” www.reasonablefaith.org/the-problem-of-miracles-a-historical-and-philosophical-perspective.
12. Keener, Miracles, 155.
13. C. G. Brown, “Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Proximal Intercessory Prayer (STEPP) on Auditory and Visual Impairments in Rural Mozambique,” Southern Medical Journal 103, no. 9 (September 2010), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20686441. For descriptions of similar studies and responses to critics, see Candy Gunther Brow, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012).
14. Blaise Pascal, Pensées—Enhanced Version (Grand Rapids: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2009), 128.
15. Keener, Miracles, 532.
16. Ibid., 570.
17. Richard Casdorph, The Miracles: A Medical Doctor Says Yes to Miracles! (New York: Logos International, 1976).
18. Summaries of the healings can be found at Is There a God?, “Ten Healing Miracles,” http://is-there-a-god.info/life/tenhealings.shtml.
19. Gary R. Habermas, The Risen Jesus & Future Hope (Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 61.
Chapter 9: Following Jesus
1. Joey Bonifacio, The LEGO Principle: The Power of Connecting to God and One Another (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2012), 100.
2. “Daily News on Wars in the World and on New States,” http://www.warsintheworld.com, accessed November 12, 2015.
3. Deborah Alcock, Lessons on Early Church History (London: Church of England Sunday School Institute, 1879), 56.
4. Bob Beltz, Real Christianity (Ventura, CA: Regal, 2006), 184–5.
5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: SCM Press, 1959), 33.
6. Steve Murrell, WikiChurch: Making Discipleship Engaging, Empowering, and Viral (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2011), 90.
7. Ibid.
8. Charles Spurgeon, “Faith and Repentance Inseparable,” Metropolitan Tabernacle, July 13, 1862, The Spurgeon Archive, http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0460.htm.
9. Rice Broocks and Steve Murrell, The Purple Book: Biblical Foundations for Building Strong Disciples (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009), 10.
10. Murrell, WikiChurch, 130.
11. Dale Evrist, telephone interview with author, June 20, 2015.
12. Murrell, WikiChurch, 155–6.
13. Bonifacio, The LEGO Principle, 202.
14. Murrell, WikiChurch, 7.
Chapter 10: Defenders of the Faith
1. Bob Beltz, Real Christianity (Ventura, CA: Regal, 2006), 20.
2. Ferdie Cabiling, personal interview with author, August 10, 2015, Manila, Philippines.
3. Dr. Sean McDowell, personal interview with author, May 27, 2015, Apologetic Leadership Group gathering, Biola University, La Mirada, California.
4. For more information see “The God Test,” http://www.thegodtest.org.
5. Frans Olivier, telephone interview with the author, June 14, 2015.
6. Peter Dusan, telephone interviews with the author, June 15 and October 12, 2015.
Epilogue: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1. Saint Augustine; Henry Chadwick, trans. The Confessions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 93.
2. Ibid., 95.
3. Ibid., 96.
4. John Wesley, The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2009), Kindle Locations 757–61.
5. Ibid., Kindle Locations 812–19.
6. Ibid., Kindle Locations 938–43.