The “Real Jesus” Is Right in Front of Us
New book debunks skeptics, provides evidence-based case for Jesus as Messiah
SAN DIEGO: This time of year, streaming networks and supermarket checkout stands try to sell us the latest theories about who Jesus really was. Usually followed by some faddish, subversive re-imagining of the gospel, promising to challenge our allegedly outdated conventional beliefs about Christ’s birth, life, death, and identity.
A new book from Catholic Answers Press offers a welcome antidote to this perennial mischief, and a powerful response to the growing legion of skeptic-influencers.
In Evidence for Christ: How We Know that Jesus Is the Messiah, renowned veteran apologist Jimmy Akin (The Bible Is a Catholic Book) builds a patient, ground-up, fact-based case for the Jesus that billions of people throughout history have believed in. In his signature cheerful but devastating way, he shows that Jesus really is the promised Messiah who came to save the world.
Is someone on X saying that Jesus didn’t actually exist? Akin shows how ancient records attesting to him are sober and reliable. A Religious Studies professor argues that Jesus was an ordinary man mythified by his followers? Evidence explains how he perfectly fit the prophecies and descriptions of the Anointed One of God. A fresh round of claims that Jesus didn’t really rise from the dead but in fact [fill in the blank]? Here the full range of alternate Resurrection theories is patiently examined and eviscerated.
“We’re so conditioned to think that there is the ‘Jesus of Faith’ and then there’s the ‘Jesus of History,’” says Todd Aglialoro, director of publishing for Catholic Answers Press. “Even ardent Christians can get worn down to the point of doubt. But Jimmy Akin reassures us that all the facts point to just one Jesus—the one who Lord of history and object of our faith.”
About the Author:
Jimmy Akin is a senior apologist for Catholic Answers.