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Being a Christian and a communications student, I felt compelled to read The Case of Christ. I decided to use this book for this review mainly because of the large amount of criticism and negative reactions it has received. Lee Strobel is known for being a skeptical journalist and former investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He also described himself as a "former spiritual skeptic" before his personal mission to prove God. Skeptics around the world claim that Jesus never said he was God or never exemplified the activities and mindset of God In any case, they rather triumphantly proclaim that Jesus was simply a man. Some will go so far as to suggest that he was a very moral and special man, but a man nonetheless. For Strobel there was too much evidence against the idea of ​​God, let alone the possibility of God becoming a man. God was just mythology, superstition, or wishful thinking. What initially caught my interest were Strobel's "in-class" questions with the book's experts, rather than his logical path to solutions. To name a few, he questions Catholic lay philosopher Peter Kreeft on the problem of evil, Indian evangelist Ravi Zacharias on Christian exclusivism, historian John Woodbridge on oppression in the name of Christ, and other authorities on the truth of miracles, the insensitivity of God in the Hebrew Bible, the Justice of Hell, the challenge of evolution and the struggle against persistent doubt. The Case for Christ was written in the style of an investigative report with bluntly asked questions that force high-profile scholars to provide understandable arguments to support their theses. opinions and conclusions. Strobel believed this brought complex theological concepts and historical questions to an accessible level, where he pieced together hard facts through these interviews. “I confront leading evangelical thinkers with the kinds of skeptical objections that many people share,” he said in an interview with Zondervan Church Source (2005). In the first section Strobel investigates what he calls the documentation, where he questions eyewitnesses, Gospel accounts, and other evidence external to the Bible. For example, asking questions like, “Does archeology help or harm the cause of Christ?” The second section focuses on the analysis of Jesus himself. Did Jesus really think he was God? In Strobel's investigation of the evidence for Jesus, he uses the Old Testament as an outline of what God should be like..