The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
Week 7: Part One, Chapter 6 — The Rebuttal Evidence
Read Part One, Chapter 6 of The Case for Christ. Key interview: Dr. Gregory Boyd, theologian and New Testament scholar, addressing challenges to Gospel reliability.
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A good investigator doesn't just gather evidence — he also considers the strongest objections. This week, Strobel examines the critics' case against the Gospels and asks whether it holds up under scrutiny.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Dr. Gregory Boyd addresses the claim made by some scholars that the Jesus of the Gospels is a mythologized figure — that the real, historical Jesus was simply a wandering teacher whose followers later turned him into a divine being. What is Boyd's response to this claim?
2.Boyd discusses the criteria scholars use to identify authentic sayings and actions of Jesus — such as the criterion of multiple attestation and the criterion of dissimilarity. What do these criteria reveal when applied rigorously to the Gospel material?
3.Some critics argue that the early church invented or heavily embellished the Gospel accounts to serve theological purposes. Boyd responds by pointing to the extremely short time frame between the events and the earliest written records. How does the brevity of that gap undermine the legend hypothesis?
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