The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict

by Josh McDowell

Evidence I & II Evidence I & IIEvidence I & II -The classic defense of the faith: Now fully updated to answer the questions challenging evangelical faith today.

The New EvidenceThe New Evidence maintains its classic defense of the faith yet addresses new issues.

The New EvidenceThe New Evidence is destined to equip believers with a ready defense for the next decade and beyond

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Hardcover, Revised Edition: Two Volumes in One, 760 pages

Published October 20th 1999 by Thomas Nelson (first published 1972)

tags: theology, reference, spirituality, faith, christianity, christian non fiction, religion, nonfiction, history, christian

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“the value of Christian faith is not in the one believing, but in the One who is believed in, its object.”

― Josh McDowell

“Forgiveness is an action, not an emotion.”

― Josh McDowell

“Este Jesús de Nazareth sin dinero ni armas, conquistó a más millones que Alejandro, César, Mahoma y Napoleón; sin ciencia y sin erudición derramó más luz sobre las cosas divinas y humanas que todos los filósofos y eruditos combinados; sin la elocuencia de las escuelas, habló tales palabras de vida como nunca antes o después fueron dichas, y produjo efectos que yacen más allá del alcance del orador o poeta; sin escribir ni una sola línea, y proporcionó temas para más sermones, oraciones, discusiones, volúmenes de erudición, obras de arte , y cánticos de alabanza que él ejercito completo de grandes hombres de los tiempos antiguos y modernos”.”

― Josh McDowell

“Apologetics is not listed as a spiritual gift for teachers, preachers, or evangelists, as though only some ought to become apologists. Rather, all Christians are called to be ready with an answer (1 Peter 3:15; Jude 3). We all make a case for Christianity in some fashion or another—but are we doing it well?”

― Josh McDowell

“The question is not whether we are apologists, but what kind of apologists we are.”

― Josh McDowell

“Many Christians claim to believe in Jesus, but only a minority can articulate good reasons for why their beliefs are true.”

― Josh McDowell

“People naturally have questions. They always have and always will. One of the key functions of apologetics, then, is to respond to questions and clear away objections people have that hinder their trust in Christ.”

― Josh McDowell

“Do not underestimate the role you may play in clearing the obstacles in someone’s spiritual journey.”

― Josh McDowell

“Only when people genuinely disagree does tolerance become necessary. Claiming that someone is wrong for holding a different viewpoint, then, isn’t itself intolerant; the attitude that accompanies the claim may, however, be intolerant.”

― Josh McDowell

“Again from Napoleon: "The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man — reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.”

― Josh McDowell

“Napoleon said: "Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man towards the unseen that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space. Across the chasm of eighteen hundred years Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy. He asks for that which a philosophy may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself; He demands it unconditionally, and forthwith His demand is granted. Its powers and faculties become an annexation to the empire of Christ. All who sincerely believe in Him experience that supernatural love towards Him. This phenomenon is unaccountable, it is altogether beyond the scope of man's creative powers. Time, the great destroyer, can neither exhaust its strength nor put a limit to its range.”

― Josh McDowell

“It is true that there have been other religions with millions of adherents, but it is also true that the existence and progress of the Church is something unique in history to say nothing of the fact that Christianity has attracted to itself the profoundest thinkers of the human race, and is in no way hindered by the ever-advancing tide of human knowledge." G. Thomas”

― Josh McDowell

“The most marvelous and astonishing thing in nineteen centuries of history is the power of His life over the members of the Christian Church." 50/104 George Bancroft said: "I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.”

― Josh McDowell

“The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.”

― Josh McDowell

“My pastor had told me that forgiveness doesn’t mean justifying or condoning what he did, but it would begin the process of freeing me from the past, and it would offer a lost person the opportunity for redemption.”

― Josh McDowell

“You can laugh at Christianity. You can mock and ridicule it. But it works. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions—Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.”

― Josh McDowell

“The Christian faith is an objective faith; therefore, it must have an object that is worthy of faith. Salvation comes not from the strength of our beliefs, but from the object of our beliefs. Yes, salvation comes through faith (Eph. 2:8, 9; John 6:29), but the merit of faith depends upon the object believed (not the faith itself).”

― Josh McDowell

“Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ.”

― Josh McDowell

“The famous essay, "One Solitary Life," states: "Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put his foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself.... While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executers gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth — his coat When He was dead, He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. "Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever were built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.”

― Josh McDowell

“Imagínese estar contemplando a un campesino arar un campo. Usted advierte que en la próxima vuelta que dé el campesino va a destruir un hormiguero. Puesto que usted es un amante de las hormigas, corre hasta donde se halla el hormiguero para advertirlas. Primeramente usted les avisa a gritos del peligro inmediatamente, pero ellas continúan en su trabajo. A continuación usted trata con el lenguaje de los signos, y finalmente recurre a cuanto le es posible imaginar, pero nada resulta. ¿Por qué? Porque usted no ha logrado comunicarse con ellas. ¿Cuál es el mejor modo de comunicarse con ellas? Unicamente por medio de convertirse en una hormiga usted podría comunicarse con ellas de modo que le entendieran. Ahora, si Dios deseaba comunicarse con nosotros, ¿cuál sería el modo mejor de conseguirlo? Veamos que con el fin de comunicarse con nosotros a él le era imprescindible convertirse en hombre y así, alcanzarnos directamente.”

― Josh McDowell

Josh McDowell

Joslin "Josh" McDowell is a Christian apologist, evangelist, and writer. He is within the Evangelical tradition of Protestant Christianity, and is the author or co-author of some 77 books.

His best-known book is Evidence That Demands a Verdict, which was ranked 13th in Christianity Today's list of most influential evangelical books since 1945. Other well known titles are More Than a Carpenter, A Ready Defense and Right from Wrong.

As a practitioner of Christian apologetics, McDowell's writings have concentrated on addressing challenges to belief, questions posed by non-Christians, doubts about faith, and non-Christian religions. McDowell tends to present positive arguments to commend belief in Christ by emphasizing historical and legal proofs to establish the authenticity of the biblical texts and the divinity of Christ.
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