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We started this More Than a Carpenter<\/em> series two weeks ago, when we shared how Josh earnestly began to search for meaning and purpose when he got to college. His journey to finding answers took a surprising turn when a group of campus Christians challenged Josh to prove his claim that Christianity was pure fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Josh did<\/em> recognize that the students had a consistent peace and joy that he lacked, but he wasn’t buying that their “relationship<\/a>” with Jesus had supplied it. The fastest way to disprove the claims of Jesus, he reasoned, was to discredit the Bible<\/a> as being historically reliable. Once he showed that it couldn’t hold up to intense scrutiny, the students would have to see that Christianity is a sham!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Christians could show me that their own book said Christ was born of a virgin, that He performed miracles, and that He rose from the dead,” asserted Josh, “but what good was that?” No skeptic would settle for that!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finding Answers, Finding Purpose<\/h2>\n

Josh had no idea that his research would take months — even requiring him to drop out of college for a time to study in historically rich libraries across Europe. But the day came that Josh had to concede a truth he struggled to accept<\/a><\/strong>: the abundant evidence he had meticulously poured over pointed to the Bible’s Old and New Testament documents being among the most reliable writings in antiquity<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“And if they were reliable,” notes Josh, “what about this man Jesus, whom I had dismissed as a mere carpenter in an out-of-the-way town in a tiny oppressed country, a man who had gotten caught up in his own visions of grandeur? I had to admit that Jesus Christ was<\/em> more than a carpenter<\/a><\/strong>. He was all He claimed to be.”<\/p>\n

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Years later another college student would ask Josh why he couldn\u2019t find a way to disprove Christianity. After all, numerous skeptics and atheists had seemingly done so, no problem. Josh’s response: \u201cFor the simple reason that I was unable to explain away the fact that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was a real event in history.\u201d <\/em><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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And because Jesus resurrected<\/a><\/strong> (a supernatural event evidenced by hundreds of witnesses, which the Jewish leaders who had gotten Jesus crucified were unable to refute), shouldn’t we trust what He said — and demonstrated — about God’s great love for us? Knowing God gives our life meaning and purpose!<\/span>
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\n“Christianity,” says Josh, “isn’t a myth, not a fantasy of wishful dreamers, not a hoax played on the simpleminded. It is rock-solid truth. I guarantee that when you come to terms with that truth, you will be on the threshold of finding the answers to these three basic questions: Who am I? <\/em>What is my purpose? What is my destiny?”<\/i><\/strong>
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\nOver the coming weeks we\u2019ll walk you through the vetted facts of Jesus\u2019 crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. But today, we\u2019re offering you FREE<\/strong> access to <\/span>Undaunted<\/span><\/i>, the powerful movie of Josh\u2019s testimony, from his painful childhood to why he has chosen to call Jesus “Savior<\/a><\/strong>” for the past 50+ years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch Undaunted<\/i><\/a>, the story of Josh’s conversion, RIGHT NOW<\/a> on your device!\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n