I'm a full-on atheist who's got a solid 0.00001% chance of being converted, but I just wanna say I'm happy that YOU'RE one of the big Christian apologists. You have a very kind/approachable demeanour. I always find it weird when I give out advice on how to convert atheists, but if I had to give advice, I'd tell someone to model after you. Despite what your live chat looks like, I feel sorta welcomed by you and I get to hear your POVs, which is interesting to me.

One Solitary Life He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never went to college. He never visited a big city. He never travelled more than two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things usually associated with greatness. He had no credentials but himself. He was only thirty three when his friends ran away. One of them denied him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While dying, his executioners gambled for the only property he had on earth, his clothing. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race and the leader of mankind's progress. All the armies that have ever marched All the navies that have ever sailed All the parliaments that have ever sat All the kings that ever reigned put together Have not affected the life of mankind on earth As powerfully as that one solitary life.

Sean, you are so unique as an interviewer. Patient, considerate, and so invested...worthy

Jesus is and was and always will be more important than anyone or anything else!

I love this channel. Dr. Sean is a really great interviewer... Also appreciate the body work of J. Warner Wallace. Really insightful!

I just filmed & uploaded my testimony this past week by the Grace of God. Amen!!!

Wow!!! I love hearing new and fresh apologetics. The kingdom of God is amazing

Great conversation! I learned a lot. Thank you gentlemen. 👍

I just read this book!!!! So good !! I can't believe how much he put into this book!! If you like crime novels or your wondering how crimes are found out!! You need this book! Or if your a Christian ,this book is eye opening ! So interesting! I'm readind parts at the dinner table to my family! So much good info!!!

I love listening this interview and the approach that J. Warner Wallace takes...hope to hear him more and have his book " Person of interest"

Your book was so wonderful and very enlightening! I had no idea that His influence on humanity was so massive. Thank you so much. He truly is amazing.

I can’t believe I miss this one! Watching now.. Blessing brothers!

This is soooo good! I wouldn't mind if it went on for another 4 hours! This interview gave a me an even deeper appreciation for the amazingness of Jesus. And I am so privileged to know that He walks with me everyday. Thank you Sean for your well-phrased questions, as always, and thank you Detective Wallace for the thoroughness and coherence of your answers. I'm from the Philippines but I'll make sure to get your book and also give it as gifts. 💞

Amazing 🤩 Love it! God bless you 🙏

Thank you so much Sean! I really enjoy your shows. So interesting, helpful and informative. And getting to know Christian leaders and others in a new way. Thank you! Your style is gracious and kind. May God keep you snd bless you! Num. 6:24-26 (A big thank you also to Dr. Wallace, such a blessing that God chose to use his life in such a unique way! :-))

Great interview! Looking forward to the book!

This was awesome my pastor's wife and I were discussing. Very important things and 2 videos came up that were yours that really pointed to our discussion. God bless you

Thanks again Sean for such an insightful interview with Jim Wallace. Jim's idea is truly a great one. It disarms those who keep finding excuses for rejecting Jesus. Both you are such a blessing to the body of Christ. May the Lord Jesus Christ richly bless you and your families.

Great arguments! Thank you for this.

Thank you so much! We just ordered the book, can’t wait to read it with the kids.

I’m a LEOW and a Christian as is my husband. As important as this information is on the spiritual level, I love hearing the LE terms that Jim is using as he is explaining pure, Godly truth with factual history! 🖤💙🖤

This is a fantastic insight - thanks guys. It speaks volumes about what is at risk with the cancel culture - it is a Judeo-Christian culture and society we live in.

Great guest, the book sounds. You two are a great team, you do interviewing very well. Still an admirer of your father, he must be so proud. Thanks, love and prayers.

This interview is golden. I just ordered his book!

Yay! Another book from J Warner Wallace!!

Jim is such a GOAT what a unique and inspiring approach, thank you gentlemen. Preordered my copy already! 👍

Fantastic !

The interview was amazing and I enjoyed Warner Wallace’s insights and how he connects the knowledge that he has acquired in his career with his faith. However, I felt troubled when he answered the last question at 59:50 (by the way, an AMAZING question). He says that there is a chance that he could be wrong about the Gospel and and that it could be possible that Jesus did not raise from the dead. The Gospel is the one thing that we as Christians don’t (shouldn’t) have even a hint of doubt about! Jesus Christ is not just true, He is the prerequisite of reality itself to exist! John 1 verse 3 tells us that: “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made”. There it is right there. We can have doubts about anything BUT the Gospel. If reality is objective, there must be one immovable and undeniable Truth that was and is and will be true no matter what. And then Wallace proceeds to say “is it possible I’m wrong (about Jesus, as I understood it)? Of course, give me a break”. Well, as Christians, we may have no breaks when it comes to our faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus warned us to be either hot or cold, but not lukewarm. Rev 3:16 “So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth”. I acknowledge that believers go through seasons of weakened faith. We do live in a fallen world and must endure through spiritual warfare. But it seems to me that a believer’s default belief, being filled with the Holy Spirit, is that the Gospel is true and there may be no doubt about it.

This was a great interview!! I have cold case christianity and Its well written, useful and kept my interest. I plan on getting this new book Person of Interest. I love listening to all of the different aspects of life that point to our God and Savior! Thanks for the interview I appreciate all you do Sean. Your ministry on KZfaq is fruitful and I truly enjoy it.

Wow! What a fascinating subject! What an interesting way to approach the subject.

Brilliant!

Thoroughly enjoyed this interview buying the book!! Hope it helps others!

Nice name Fuse and fallout demonstrate the felon. Well thought out. Nice conversation. Good points about music and science and expectations of various religions.

Excellent, just excellent. I've been a Christian all my, but still love to hear these things, that just affirm even deeper what I already believe.

My friend got me this book for Christmas, it's really good, I finished it in like a week

How Great Thou Art Lord Jesus and how blessed I am to have been born a Christian. Eternal Love

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one of my all time favorite books, I read every last page

When I got to the part about the 6 areas of culture, I was blown away. I was a missionary with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) for 25 years, which is one of the top 2 largest missionary organizations in the world, the other being Campus Crusades for Christ. I worked with hospital ships in Africa and the South Pacific. Both organizations believe the best way to Disciple the Nations is to bring Christ into every aspect of a nations culture, by transforming or discipling all of the main areas that influence a culture the most. They identified 7 specific areas of focus and they are often referred to as the 7 Mind Molders or the 7 Spheres of Influence. They include the 6 in J’s list. They are: 1-Family 2-Economics (including Science, Technology & Business) 3-Government 4-Religion 5-Education 6-Communications/Media 7-Celebration (including Arts, Entertainment & Sports) Everything YWAM does around the world is designed around bring Jesus into these 7 Spheres of each culture we go to.

After retiring, I got my dream job teaching in a Christian Academy in San Salvador and was even able to teach history. On p 411 of Abeka's History of the World in Christian Perspective, 1995, Pensacola Christian College, we find this quote: "(Queen) Victoria spoke for the nation in her reply to a visiting African chief who asked her the secret of England's greatness. The queen did not take him to the Tower of London to see the glittering crown jewels or to hear the brilliant orators who debated in Parliament. Instead, she presented the chief with a Bible, and said, 'Here is the secret of England's greatness.'"

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At first I was like "Let me take a quick look. Why is Sean McDowell over here interviewing Roger Stone?"

I'm amused that Mythvision won a book! I hope he enjoys and is blessed by it.

This is so interesting. I just ordered the book!

Do you think that people were afraid of Jesus being the son of God because that meant losing control of the religion with the Jewish Rabbi’s in the Roman culture?

@Kipp Davis has created a video about J McDowell. Since you’ve tied your ministry close to him will you or J McDowell be responding? You seem like a very reasonable Christian and are willing to tackle tough questions and I applaud you for that. We should all be seekers of truth.

Tremendous stuff, the detective's approach to the subject and his conclusions. I only wish one of them flashed some close-ups of the way the inside pages of the book are looking, how "picture-book-like" it actually is and how the font is really easy to read.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5 "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."

I'm really interested in what he has to say about the Messianic prophecies. His button analogy is quite thought-provoking. It is so sad that apologists pay little attention to discussing the prophecies that point to Jesus as expressed in the NT. Honestly, its scary to me. Dr. Michael Brown has a series, but its a ton of books and one references the other. You have to have his entire library it seems just to track down a few facts. I'm not sure why he has not produced a succint book on the best and some of the hardest prophecies. Anyway, I'll be getting the book. Now will I have time to complete it???? That's the question!

@38:38 JWW encouraged young Christians to get involved in scientific research. That's a very good advice. I second it. If they like it, young students should pursue careers in biology research, because there's so much to learn and discover in biology, that could lead to new medicines and treatments, specially in the fascinating area of control systems (e.g. bioelectric networks, morphogenetic codes and regulatory genomics/epigenomics that are being deciphered using deep learning techniques). Biology is the new queen of science, while Math and Physics are the efficient advisors of the new queen. Physics seems to experience a partial stagnation and much speculation, while exciting biology discoveries are piling up at an accelerated pace, making it very difficult to grasp even a very specialized portion of them. It's really becoming unbelievably mind-boggling. Biology research is discovering wonderful complex functionally specified information systems, which empirically we know that can be created only by intelligent minds. Unlike Physics, there is no much room for speculation in Biology, because technological advance is increasingly making it possible to observe biological processes in vivo. In Biology the more we know, more is there for us to learn. As the outstanding questions get answered, many new ones are raised. But it's what we know, not the unknown, that increasingly points to the indescribable mind of Logos. We don't worship fictional "gods of gaps", but the God of the whole show, as professor Lennox has stated so clearly. When we realize that our amazing Creator has graciously provided the Way for us to someday be in His glorious presence without the universal time constraints, we are awestruck. Praise Adonai Eloheinu!

I just recently found your channel and have been enjoying your videos. I find truth rather than sensationalism.

I'm actually with J when it comes to prophecy linkage skepticism. I thought the vast majority of the prophecies were cloaked in nature, so it makes me happy to know that there are still a good chunk that are not cloaked that directly point to Jesus.

Please! Please! Please! make a movie about this!

15:37 - my hypothesis on why there is shared expectations, just as there is a shared flood story dealing w/ sin/ corruption between every ancient civilization I have looked into that had left a record of some sort, is because after the flood, until the Tower of Babbel, we were together and sharing these historical truths & revealed truths. God had chosen the Israelites to be the protectors of the Historical truths to pass on, as well as how to worship God, His plans to bring us back into communion w/ Him after the fall, etc. At the Tower of Babel, we didn’t listen to God’s commandment to go forth and multiply over the land, but huddled together, creating gods of men, so God confused our tongues (an interesting side note is that we are rapidly losing languages today,), and forced us to go out. Each w/ those who shared the same language, but maintaining the traditions and stories. These traditions and stories became more and more distorted from the original, overtime, only holding portions of the truth. The Israelites were chosen to be the protectors of the full, uncorrupted account (hence, the Chosen people). When Jesus came in the flesh, born into a virgin, fulfilling all the promises, He instituted His new Church, to be the protectors of the full revelations of God and how we are to properly worship Him and how we are to act and behave, w/ His new Bishop & Priest class.

But nothing is impossible for Jesus

WOW, WOW, WOW!!! Mr Wallace every person on the planet should hear this. This is so informative! 🙏🙏

@22:00 The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy - Rev 19:10

When I came to watch this old detective talk about Jesus, I didn't expect him to bring up K-Pop

Even literature and poetry

Defining God down to justify a temporary lifestyle is a sure way to trash one's eternity.

I’ve read “cold case Christianity “…great book, easy to follow , evidence abound.. now with “ person of interest “ caps the evidence of Jesus and his divinity without using the Bible because not everyone believes in its truth. Classic evidence either with or without Bible… great idea

Another explanation of many of the fulfilled 'prophecies' is that Jesus was filling to the full (fulfilling) David's story and Israel's story. Therefore, it wasn't always the author saying, 'look! Jesus fulfilled this prediction!' But rather 'look! Jesus identified with Israel/David/etc. in this way!'

He said Jesus appears after 1/3rd of the red zone overlap. How does it explain that 1/3rd “red zone” where Jesus was not present? Why is it a red zone in first place in the absence of Jesus because he hasn’t arrived until end of 1/3rd of red zone?

Hi Sean, I know that today is 2 months after this video. I have a question for you. If all of this information is out there as proof of Jesus. The fathers of science, the music history and so forth. My question is "How can atheist and scientology claim that Jesus doesn't exist as who he truly was". If the Man exist, the everything about him must be true as well!?? Again according to all of the Proof that Mr. Wallace has given.

Yes from Jesus sprang the fathers of science like Plato, Euclid and Aristotle…

I agree some prophesies are hard to see in isolation. I think some prophesy requires looking at something big picture, For example Psalms book 1 Ps 1-41 poetically Genesis, starts with a man who is a tree of life and ends with a betrayed man like Joseph meant to save the world. Like the promise to Abraham to inherit the world as Roman's puts it, the Son of God will inherit the nations in Ps 2 in the first prayer of Psalms given by God to His Son. The world is fallen Ps 11-14 but who can climb the mountain of God Ps 15, and24? Who but the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, the king in Ps 22 23 24 allowing 'the meek to inherit the earth' in Ps 25 in the son and in the spirit of the Abrahamic promise to bless the nations in his seed and as part of the blessings of David that if he had a righteous son God would be His father.. The meek inherit the earth in Ps 37 (in the son) and how? Ps 35 the trial of Jesus Ps 41 the last supper. The church founded, paid for by the suffering of christ and forgiveness follows in Ps 30 31 32. In the big picture prophesy points to Jesus but if sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees. The mural in big picture points to Jesus, the seed of Abraham, the son of David, the son of God, the son of Man. I think a lot of prophesy is a strong argumen in the harmony of scripture as it sings in ensemble.

Part of the reason the Old Testament prophecies of Jesus Christ are unimpressive is because you're reading the corrupted masoretic text in which the Rabbis of the 2nd century removed &/or altered critical passages to obscure Jesus' fulfillment of prophecy. The New Testament writers overwhelmingly quoted the (unaltered) Septuagint.

Can you speak on the apocrypha please?

The reason why the standard is higher for Jesus is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If I told you I owned a car vs a Lamborghini vs a spaceship would have increasing doubt based off the same amount of evidence

Hey Sean, just wondering is there a video where you talk about why you are a Christian? Did you have a conversion or born again moment?

The only reason why I trust J is because he used the word "onset" correctly. No one does that.

Our entire world, to this day, marks time by Jesus' life, death, and resurrection: BC/AD or (BCE/CE) however you want to define it.

I’d say Daniel 9 is a pretty significant fuse.

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John 3:16

Sean it would be REALLY nice if you leveled out the audio. Your voice is WAY louder than your guests and it makes it hard to listen to :)

In Jewish tradition there are 4 ways of interpreting the text of Tanakh. The literal meaning and the allegorical meaning and the hinted at meaning and the hidden meaning. The NT writers didn’t always use the literal interpretation face value contextual meaning of the verses they quoted from Tanakh. Often they interpreted them using the allegorical meaning or the hidden meaning or the hinted at meaning of the verses they quoted in light of the events of the life of Jesus and what he said and did as the fulfillment of the prophecies concerning Mashiach Ben Yosef in his first advent and the yet to be fulfilled prophecies he will fulfill concerning Mashiach Ben David in his second advent. Often they quoted from the Greek LXX Septuagint translation instead of the literal Hebrew original like when Matthew’s gospel quotes Isaiah 7:14 from the LXX where the literal Hebrew HaAlmah meaning the young maiden that may or may not be a virgin is translated in Greek as He Parthena meaning the virgin so perhaps that just makes the hinted at meaning more clear. Matthew also quotes Hosea 11:1 where it’s talking about HaShem loving Israel when he was a lad and calling his son from Egypt. The literal context speaks of the Exodus but the hidden meaning is a prophecy about Jesus leaving Egypt as a lad. Jesus as Mashiach represents Israel as the king of Israel and is the servant of HaShem in Isaiah 53 even though Isaiah quotes HaShem calling Israel his servant earlier in the servant songs because as Mashiach and King of Israel Jesus represents Israel and is the ultimate Jew because he alone was perfectly Torah observant

Surely the 'best time to show up' would be when we can do a full (scientific) investigation into a claimed death and resurrection, not having to rely on word of mouth (hearsay) claims from pre scientific times

this guy has never heard of young earth creationism which goes against all science

J. Warner you need to do a research on Jesus has risen. Your next book should be where is his body? You will not find him in the tomb.

Dr. Sean I have a question. Do you know how far away the earth’s plates can be effected by a earthquake? I was watching a video about proof for Jesus resurrection. The atheist video debunks it by basically saying the earthquake that they found around 33 ad was actually a thousand miles away. Is there anyway you can help me out here with the truth?

As a Christian, I find it odd that many Christian men on KZfaq have high pitch voices. What's up with that?

It is so interesting that Jesus had such a huge impact on culture and the creation of various aspects , and now it seems that Satan is working so hard to bring everything down to his level, bringing sin into everything.

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What we know about Jesus, is the life of Christ according to witnesses and words written from Prophets, Seers and Revelators. What many of us fail to realise is the oerspective from those writers and their evidences. However if we consider when Jesus stated when we dig a hole and fall into that hole we may never get out, is out of the question because Jesus never said that? Similarly when Jesus scolded the man from Samaria and stated that Samaritans are often heathens, Jesus never stated that either. So what I attempt to bring to people’s minds is simple and even children should understand it. Jesus never wrote stories about Himself nor did He make any claims of criticism to any faiths, people, or specific groups such as the Romans etc. No it is only the writers that defined Samaritans, Romans and Jews, Christ only chastised those that were sinners among the people, not once did He speak to a nation, kindred or tongue, He was not the writer, He was the minister. Hence any purported Christian, or true believer of Christ, would not chastise, criticise, rebuke or any other against a Church or any believers but merely direct to the truth. For that same reason, we too cannot state that Evangelicals, Apologists, Catholics, Protestant of LDS etc are wrong except they preach against God and His kingdom! For too long we have those among us, professing to be Christians but often go against what Christ ministered! Evidences of God and Jesus Christ have been built upon from the beginning and exist to the end. To rule out scriptures, Prophets, Seers and Revelators, then truth would cease. However due to an Apostasy taking place after the death of Christ, it was necessary for God to restore the Gospel of Jesus Christ through The Book of Mormon. Now we can witness how the True Church of Christ has been restored as in The Church zig Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. Know them by their fruits!

Imagination is God in man so wake up yourself, Paul hinted Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

@ 15:15 These expectations are the archetype. They are a cleverly crafted story which fulfills the silhouette in the human psyche. There is a great need for them to be created to quell the anxiety engendered by their absence.

I was going to buy the book not now because what's the point if you don't think it's true. You can research Buda and not believe. Jesus is the only one alive. That's a miracle within itself. No other religion can do that.

Jesus demanded our Christians to abide by His Word and act as light and salt of the world. Where is the leadership in US Christian churches. I did not see many of them standing up for evils in this world, rather surrendering to the wicked and devils of this world.

Would not be great if most religions had their content from actual gods actually being interviewed, instead of from books written by humans? Why is it that the first thing out of the table with ANY and EVERY religious claim, is the mighty GOD they are claiming into existence? I can understand that from the stories made with gods that do not exist, but is hard to make a case for it when the supernatural being is real, and even wants to deliver an important message to every and all humans...

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It matters to Sean because it means he never has to work for a living.

Couldn’t similar cases be made for Muhammad and other popular religious leaders?

Read “ the Case for Christ “

Jesus meets the expectation of most? Aren’t few to end up in heaven?

How about an add on argument for Christianity, likely having the highest gross in book sales. ?;)

I did an examination of my own: Judas had a week long meditative experience of Jesus Christ for which he was shanghaied to India, where he started the Mar Thoma Church. The historic Jesus is Barabbas and came later, as per Ralph Ellis' chronology. We are left with a mountain of colonialism and misogyny grounded on roman fascism and it needs to move to the ground of truth and be the mountain of love it's supposed to be. And one miracle by which christians are encouraged to demonstrate their faith; MOVE IT!

So other gods are like 8/10 of Jesus's character ? The Buddhist list the most characteristics

Thank god Wallace is no longer a detective. He can cause far less damage in the world of apologetics.

The actual fuse consists of "immigration, assimilation, and "syncretism." From the time of Alexander the Great's conquests in the East, Eastern peoples migrated into the Mediterranean Basin and the Greek cities. Greek cities, in the centuries leading up to the birth of Christianity, began to swell with immigrants. Assimilation into Western culture was the next. And, finally came syncretism where religions began to blend and where religions and Greek philosophical ideas and concepts also blended. Christianity was not the case of plagiarizing non-Jewish ideas and concepts or even non-Jewish religions. It was the case, however, of "updating" and "reworking" non-Jewish elements into the Christian religion and scriptures. A good contemporary example is West Side Story. The musical does not plagiarize Romeo and Juliet, but is rather an updated version for contemporary audiences. This updating of familiar religious and philosophical ideas and tropes was an acceptable practice in the ancient world, particularly as religions often served as stage-gates to a new culture. Religions also served as stage-gates to new jobs, where particular jobs were associated with a particular deity. Many of these jobs are actually mentioned in the Christian Scriptures. The term "logos" was not a mere particle of speech, but was a Greek philosophical concept, attributed to Plato, that was clothed-out as a rabbi from Nazareth. And the only way a Greek concept can be divine is through sheer mythological invention. This so called "cold case" guy followed the wrong clues, which happens in law enforcement all the time. The fuse of history is immigration, assimilation and syncretism. Those are the fuse that gave rise, not only to Christianity, but many other religions as well. However, it was Christianity that brought Europe into the Dark Ages, and 2,000 years of religious-political theocracy, which we will not repeat here in America.