Devout Jew Decides to Disprove Scripture by Reading the Bible; Is 'Blown Away' by What He Finds

Tré Goins-Phillips : Mar 6, 2026
Faithwire

"From the first verse of Genesis, it all points to Jesus." -Ed Grifenhagen

[Faithwire.com] Ed Grifenhagen—a devout Jew—was about 13 years into his marriage when he told his wife he had a plan, one he said at the time "shouldn't be too hard" to accomplish. (Image: Screengrab via CBN News)

His endeavor was to disprove Scripture by reading through the Old and New Testaments.

Now a devout Christian, Grifenhagen told CBN News his pompous pronouncement that his attempt at falsifying the Bible would be a simple task was "the most arrogant thing I think I've ever said."

"I thought, if I'm not gonna believe it, I need to read what I profess to not believe," he explained of his reasoning for cracking open the pages of Scripture. "[I] was obsessed with reading it."

From January to September of 2000, Grifenhagen pored over the pages of the Old Testament. When he finished it, his curiosity got the better of him. Fearful of his father's upbraiding, the Christian-curious Jew ran a clandestine errand to a faith-based bookstore, where he picked up a copy of the New Testament.

Grifenhagen said he resorted to his own devices to get a copy of the full Bible because—despite growing up in the buckle of the Bible Belt—not a single Christian in Columbus, Georgia, shared the Gospel with him in his first 35 years of life.

From September to November of that year, he read the pages of the New Testament... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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