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"For the first thirty-five years of his life, J. Warner Wallace was a devout atheist. After all, how can you believe a claim made about an event in the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence? Then Wallace realized something. Christianity was a lot like the cold cases he solved as a homicide detective--cold cases that turned out to have enough evidence, eyewitnesses, and records to solve. When Wallace applied his skills as an...

"In Jesus before the gospels, [Bart Ehrman] investigates the controversial issue of what really happened in the decades-long gap between when Jesus lived and when the Gospels began to appear" -- from cover.

The author provides his perspective on the life and significance of Jesus, maintaining the New Testament is filled with contradictions about who Jesus was, how salvations works, and the descriptions of Jesus' birth and death in the four gospels.