From Skeptic to Believer, Investigator J. Warner Wallace on his Journey to Christ

Arnau Perez Ninot
4 min readApr 9, 2024
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From cynicism to faithful Christian.

J. Warner Wallace shares how he used his homicide investigation skills to determine if the gospels are a reliable account of the life of Jesus.

Here is his story:

The beginning

His wife was raised as a cultural Catholic and had been together for 18 years. Attending church was not a common occurrence.

One day after 3 years of not going, his wife asked him to go.

They went to a church in California, although James didn’t want to go to that one because “it’s like a circus,” but since they had been asked by a friend they went.

James shares his impression of the pastor.

“The pastor there is really good at this one thing, he’s good at a lot of things, but this one thing he’s great at.

Pitching Jesus in a way that atheists can’t catch him.”

It went something like this:

“This Jesus guy, hey he’s really smart, I don’t know what you to think about Jesus but I can tell you this, he’s really smart, he’s got good advice, you might want to listen to what he has to…

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