The Case for Faith (2008)

Documentary (or rather filmed essay) by former atheist turned Christian apologist Lee Strobel, attempts to answer common arguments against the existence of God. The film chooses to focus on two major objections to belief in the Christian God, namely the exclusivity of Christian salvation claims through Jesus, and the argument that there is too much evil in the world for there to be a God. The answers presented are theological/philosophical in nature, nothing all that objective can be sighted in there support, and I felt the arguments presented contained many assumptions and logical leaps which rendered the answers given rather weak. For example the film stresses that the Resurrection of Christ can be substantiated by over 500 witnesses. This is not actually true, the Bible claims it can be but only offers four actual accounts, which were written many years after the claimed events, and belief in them resets on the assumption that that the writers were credible, even that the writers were even who they claimed to be, and if you study the history of the compilation of the Bible there is room to doubt on that front. I could go on, but ultimately all Christian answers to such questions require a leap of faith, which leaves them empirically wanting. The films okay as a starting point for discussion, but beyond that not recommended.