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If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

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Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
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Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
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