Josh McDowell didn't believe the things written in the Bible. And set out to discredit the Book and people who believed in what it said.

In his book "More Than a Carpenter', McDowell changed his mind after numerous hours of research and interviewing others. He found himself accepting the authority of the Bible and gave his life to Christ in 1959.

This book shares some of what led him to his conclusion. Here is information from one brief paragraph:

Gilbert West, author, and Lord George Lyttleton, statesman, were determined to destroy the basis of the Christian faith. West was going to demonstrate the fallacy of the Resurrection. Lyttleton was going to prove that Saul of Tarsus (Paul) never converted to Christianity.

Lyttleton wound up concluding that if 'Paul's twenty-five  years of suffering and service for Christ were a reality, then his conversion was true, for everything he did began with that sudden change. (being met by Jesus on the road to Damascus, as Paul traveled). And if Paul's conversion was true, then Jesus Christ rose from the dead, for everything Paul was and did he attributed to his witnessing the risen Christ.' (p. 123).

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