{"id":9249,"date":"2024-02-06T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:48:13","slug":"lee-strobel-and-shannon-bream-talk-about-why-god-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2024\/02\/lee-strobel-and-shannon-bream-talk-about-why-god-is-real.html","title":{"rendered":"Lee Strobel and Shannon Bream Talk About Why God is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker and author Lee Strobel discusses how creation points to the existence of God in his new book, \u201cIs God Real?: Exploring the Ultimate Question of Life.\u201d He shared with Fox News anchor Shannon Bream about how, as a former atheist, he got into proving that God exists and how amazingly planned out our existence is. Bream asked Strobel, \u201cHow does someone go from being an atheist to writing the books you\u2019ve written?\u201d<\/p>\n

Strobel shared, \u201cI\u2019m trained in journalism and law like you are, and was legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, an atheist, a skeptic. And everything was going along pretty well until my wife, who was an agnostic, met a Christian who shared her faith with her and took her to church. And then my wife gave me the worst news an atheist husband could get. She said, \u2018I\u2019ve just become a follower of Jesus.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

After his wife told him the news<\/a>, the author instantly thought of divorce. But first, he attempted to \u201crescue\u201d her from the \u201ccult\u201d she had gotten sucked into. So, he sought to disprove Jesus\u2019 resurrection. Strobel continued, \u201cBecause I, even as an atheist, I recognize that\u2019s the foundation of everything. So I did take my journalism training, legal training, and systematically investigate the historical data concerning the resurrection of Jesus and other issues involving the reality of faith and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cI spent two years of my life doing that, until November the 8th of 1981, when I sat down to reach a verdict, and I, as I reviewed all the evidence, I said to myself, you know, in light of the avalanche of evidence that points so powerfully toward the truth of Christianity, I realize would take more faith to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian. So the scales just kind of tip decisively in favor of faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

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