Todd Cobb — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:01:00 GMT

The summarization listed in this article was first printed in Penpoint Vol 1, January 1994 and posted as a free article on www.cmfnow.com. I would encourage students of apologetics to remember that the primary reason for giving a defense of our faith is not simply to cast down arguments, but to provide a means for evangelism. As Dr. Bahnsen has stated in another article “The very reason why Christians are put in the position of giving a reasoned account of the hope that is in them is that not all men have faith. Because there is a world to be evangelized (men who are unconverted), there is the need for the believer to defend his faith: Evangelism naturally brings one into apologetics. This indicates that apologetics is no mere matter of “intellectual jousting”; it is a serious matter of life and death – eternal life and death”.

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