In order to defend the Christian faith, one must obviously start with the premise that there is a God! Although this sounds elementary, it is extremely important, because an individual with an atheistic world-view will be unpersuaded by the objective facts underlying Christianity. He will simply attempt to interpret these facts within his atheistic framework. For instance, an atheistic geologist will interpret the fact that we find billions of dead things buried in sedimentary rocks (…showed first 75 words of 1627 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1627 total…the agnostic himself exists is a fact he cannot deny without contradicting himself (i.e., a non-existent person can't deny anything). This should lead him to the conclusion that God could exist and, in fact (based on the cosmological argument), must exist. Conclusion: We can confidently state that the evidence for the existence of God is overwhelming. As the Psalmist stated in Psalm 14:1 and 53:1, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."