A Response

You know, just once I'd like to actually witness a conversation like that of the post below instead of just reading about it.

The conversation Grimp posted here is certainly illustrative of the argument a professing Christian would like to make in the face of an openly hostile, disbelieving critic. I doubt that the conversation is, in fact, a strictly true story. It is nice to read. It is nice to imagine laying the verbal smack-down on the metaphorical disbelieving critic. But the story is almost certainly not true, in the sense that there was an actual college classroom where this exact exchange took place.

But of course, everyone reading the story knows that.

The salient point is that disbelieving critics should be debated rationally, logically, but with a sense of the faith our hero in the story professes. Christians should, as Saint Peter wrote, "be able to give an answer to anyone who asks" about what and why we believe as we do.


I was originally going to do this as a comment to the previous post, but then I realized it was getting longer and longer and...hey! I've got posting access! So here it is as a full post.