BaylorJacket said:
I have read the case for Jesus (as well as the Case for Christ and the Case for the resurrection lol). Which argument(s) did you personally find the most convincing?
First, kudos to you for legitimately trying. Not many would go to that level of effort in their search.
I feel the best evidence of the faith is the fact that it started and spread despite attempts to crush it. It grew and flourished with nearly 300 years of (on-again and off-again) persecution.
Nearly all historians (Christians, Jewish, Muslim, and even atheists) will agree that a rabbi name Yeshua lived 2000 years ago in Jerusalem, had a great following and was executed for treason.
Having said that, when prophets preached in those times, after their death, their followers quickly abandoned their beliefs.
With Jesus crucifixion, his Way didn't end with him, it spread even though many of his followers were also tortured and executed. Christianity spread in the heart of the pagan Rome during the persecutions under Nero, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian, Constantius and others.
As Tertullian stated, "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."
This was done with peace, not a sword (like Islam.)