and the apostles would not have employed such arguments extensively themselves, and Paul would not have commanded Christians to “know how you should answer each person” (Col 4:6), including, presumably, those who delight in ridiculing the Christian faith. Numerous persons in today’s industrialized West, moreover, refuse even to consider whether Christianity might be true because they firmly believe that one cannot be both a Christian and a person of intellectual integrity. Even if Scripture did not
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