This is a readable book for the lay person. Very thought provoking. It is written in the comman man's language.

This is easily one of the best Christian books in print today. This book took my faith to the next level, and reinforced it with clear undeniable FACTS. It's a tough read, as the format isn't for relaxing bedtime reading, but you won't regret time spent studying this fantastic book.

This is an incredible tool for anyone studying the Bible, defending the Bible, or just wants a solid resource in this skeptical 21st century. I have found it profoundly informative and a must for anyone who wanted a more in-depth view of the Bible, History and profound truths therein.

This book clearly explains its structure and goals. Systematically written; A "new" classic for modern day Christian apologetics. For anyone who wants to know can you be a intellectual and a Christian?

This was originally published as two seperate books. How wonderful that it has been updated and combined. Anyone studing the Bible needs this as part of their reference library.

This is an excellent book and comes highly recommended. It takes a thorough approach to the topics McDowell covers (which are relevant and very helpful), and doesn't force the reader into a limited level of understanding, like some books. The only downside to this book is that it's a little hard to draw a contiguous line through the material. It's definitely not set up like a novel, but as long as you can find what you're looking for in reference, you're golden. I would suggest highlighting stuff as you go through. It might seem corny, but it helped me find the things later that struck me in a big way.
Also, despite how "superior" some Christian-seek-and-destroy reviewers may sound, this is NOT a "wind in your sails" kind of book. Anyone who's actually read past the first few chapters could tell you that. Always take reviews with a grain of salt (including mine). Read the book for yourself, be you Christian or not, and see FOR YOURSELF what God can work through it with you.

This book fell into my hands early on in my search for truth at the turn of the millennium - and I'm so glad it did. McDowell covers it all, demonstrating in minute detail why we can trust the Bible as well as Jesus' claim to be God. He also answers the most common questions skeptics raise - including how the Bible's books were chosen and how we can be sure that the Scripture we read today is faithful to the earliest manuscripts. Indispensable.

This is an excellent resource that you will come back to time and time again. Josh McDowell is great and the style is sort of an outline so you can jump around a little. It is overwhelming to read the whole thing all at once, it's huge, but definitely skip around and take what you want. I have used this time and time again to discuss with my husband. If you are a "current" Christian, you need this to solidify your faith even more and if you are a "doubting" or "non" Christian, you will be blown away. Great book. One of my all time favorites.

This book is essentially a re-spin of McDowell's previous books. If you are one of the faithful, it will put some wind in your sails and help you scoot along the confidence-in-faith river. Though, if you are a good scholar, critical thinker, etc - then you find the book chocked full of logical fallacies, stretches of fact and half-truths, and so on. As such, it adds wind to your sail of Christian apologetics use of strawmen and non sequiturs, misrep's, etc. By no means is it evidence that demands a verdict, but a book where you might make yourself feel better or you might find yourself scoffing depending on what you put in to it.

THIS IS THE PERFECT BOOK FOR NON BELIEVERS AND BELIEVERS WITH LOTS OF BIBLE QUESTIONS. A MUST BOOK TO END ANY ARGUEING ABOUT SCRIPTURE ISSUES AND HISTORY REGARDING PROPHECY,OLD TESTAMENT ETC.SORRY ABOUT MY SPELLING

This book is an excellent resource for anyone who desires to defend why they believe the bible is historically accurate, inspired by God through the hands of men, and relevant to everyday living.

This is a Must Have book for any Christian. It helps explain many, many questions that non-Christians and Christians alike come up with. This book will not only strengthen your belief but also help "back up" that belief! As for "Faith", well, we all know where that comes from....

This is a very unique book for one reason: you will not find any "faith-based" arguments used to prove claims made about the bible. Only documented facts are used.

McDowell employs an interesting technique to prove many of the Christian beliefs about Jesus: namely he uses the actions and arguments made by the groups that hate Jesus to prove the point. For example, he uses the heavily guarded tomb to prove that the jews were willing to do whatever they could to prevent the resurrection thus destorys their argument that the Christian's may have taken the body. Also, if Jesus' body wasn't resurrected the jews could have easily squashed the religion by simply offering Jesus' dead body up to the Christians.

Also, the author argues that the jewish priests BELIEVED in the miracles he was performing. The jews accused him of using sorcery to accomplish his miracles instead of just calling him a fake (although they call Jesus a fake with impunity 2000 years later!). When he restored the sight of a blind man they stated that he was using the devils power to restore sight instead of asking the man whether or not he was really cured of blindness.

By looking at what the antagonists say about Jesus he has a perfect source of proof. By Crucifying Jesus for Blasphemy (something even the anti-Christ authors of today admit) McDowell proves that Jesus' followers didn't merely invent his claimed divinity (what else would they Crucify him for?).

Beyond these methods the author explorers many "friendly" evidences to support the bible as well, such as scientific evidence for the locations, peoples, events, etc in the bible. He uses historical evidence, as well as the testimony of those who witnessed the events of the new testament and recorded the events in their lifetime.

Before I read this book, I had doubts that you could seriously PROVE the events in the bible and that Jesus was the son of God. But now, if this case was brought before a true court of law, I have no doubt that a jury would find for the defendant: Jesus.

written by someone who set out to prove that christianity was a crock, josh mcdowell convincingly shows all who read the overwhelming evidence supporting a risen jesus christ. a must have!

I have read this book several times and I use it as both a reference and an anchor when the world tries to spread lies about Jesus. I will say that although this book is unparalelled in its excellent persuit of the truth of Jesus and the Bible, etc., it relies a bit too much on emotion, personal experience and the author's hope that the grey areas will be resolved somehow. I think that the author should have spoken only where there were facts and not conjecture, because anything presented as apologetics and which has within it emotion and poetic liscence, however brief and cursory, opens us (Christians) to ridicule and taunting by the left and their scientists/archaeologists etc. All in all a good effort, but perhaps Mr. Mc Dowell would be better off writing a novel about his personal experiences, and a book strictly about the facts and allow the readers to harmonize the two in their own minds.

This is an outstanding reference book for Christians. It provides evidences for the truth of Christianity and the Bible under several different categories. It is organized in a way to make it easy to use to teach a class. Highly recommended!