(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Wallace had no interest in God or Christianity, but he went to church to please his wife when they had kids. He heard things about Jesus Christ that he believed to be false, but he bought a Bible to read so he could check it out for himself.
Narrative - the story telling which he discovered - surprised him because he had thought the Bible would be all about platitudes. Not so. The narratives contained events, people, details, statements that were either true or false. He automatically read the gospels along the lines of his special training: looking for evidence of deception.
He didn't find that. What he found looked to him like eye-witness accounts, eye-witnesses who were telling the truth.
He liked what he read in Luke 7. John the Baptist sent his followers to Jesus with a question: are you the one we've been waiting for? Jesus could have said, "You should have more faith!" But instead of that, he told them to go back to John with the evidence of the things they had seen him do and say. Wallace says that Jesus is evidential.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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