Warfield understood faith as a spiritual act but one that was supported by reasonable evidence. Conversion is a gift, one contingent on the supernatural work of God, but it is not ignorant to the intellectual support behind it. Warfield thus described apologetics as the “systematically organized evidence” of the Christian faith. “We believe in Christ because it is rational to believe in Him, not even though it be irrational. Of course mere reasoning cannot make a Christian; but that is not because