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God’s Not Dead 2: Who Do You Say I Am?
© 2016 by Outreach, Inc.
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Published by Outreach, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO 80919
www.Outreach.com
All Scripture quotations are taken from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW IN-
TERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984,
2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
ISBN: 9781942027911
Cover Design by Tim Downs
Interior Design by Alexia Garaventa
Written by Jim Poole and Garry Poole
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Jesus?
Chapter 2: What Is Truth?
Chapter 3: Was Jesus Real?
Chapter 4: Does Jesus Matter?
Epilogue
Notes
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INTRODUCTION
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trench-
es of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such
thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is
what to worship.
—David Foster Wallace
You’re gonna have to serve somebody.
—Bob Dylan
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Suppose you expressed a belief you firmly held—a
deep, personal conviction that shapes the very core of
who you are—and the act of merely talking about it
was declared illegal. How would you feel? How would
you react? What would you do?
At the heart of the movie
God’s Not Dead 2,
Grace
Wesley, a history teacher who is a devoted Christian,
answers a student’s question about Jesus. She is care-
ful with her answer, yet confident about quoting
a Bible verse. She’d been teaching about Martin
Luther King Jr., so it was quite natural for her to
respond to the student’s inquiry comparing Jesus’s
ideals with those of the civil rights leader and for-
mer minister. However, when parents and school
administrators find out about the incident, Grace is
accused of crossing the line of what’s acceptable—by
“preaching and proselytizing her personal faith” in
the classroom.
As the case goes to court, the prosecuting attor-
ney builds a strong case against Grace for inappro-
priately overstepping the wall of separation between
church and state as articulated by Thomas Jefferson.
If convicted, Grace would not only lose her job, but
even more distressing, she could be forced to forfeit
her teaching certificate and possibly never be allowed
to teach again.
The trial intensifies as Grace’s defense attor-
ney, Tom Endler, calls Lee Strobel and Detective
J. Warner Wallace, two experts who have written
on the authenticity of Jesus, to the witness stand. If
the defense could establish the person of Jesus and
the events in His life as historical fact, then Grace
would be found legitimately teaching about Jesus as
she would any other historical figure.
It’s the jury’s duty to examine the facts and weigh
the evidence. The proof must be convincing, based
on reason and common sense, and not based solely
on speculation or mere conjecture. They must un-
dergo a careful, impartial consideration of all the ev-
idence, or lack thereof, and reach a verdict beyond a
reasonable doubt.
But can the life of Jesus be proven beyond
a rea-
sonable doubt?
Does any hard evidence really exist for
the events in Jesus’s life? If so, is it reliable? What
about His death by crucifixion? And can His al-
leged resurrection be credible? Perhaps it’s our duty
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