A fool is one who does not make God and His revelation the starting point (the presupposition) of his thinking. Fools despise the preaching of the cross, refuse to know God, and cannot receive God’s Word (1 Corinthians 1-2). Those who are self-proclaimed, autonomous people, or unbelievers, will not submit to the word of God or build their lives and thinking upon it. Disbelief and ignorance of God’s will, therefore, produce foolishness (1 Corinthians 15:36; Ephesians 5:17).

20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 1 Corinthians 1:20 (NASB)

I moved my writing ministry to Possessing the Treasure in 2006. Not long after that Ken Silva asked me to come on board the Christian Research Network team. It was during that period that there were some monumental battles with a group of people dedicated to shutting us down. I can remember writing posts about the Ordo Salutis or the Five Solas of the Reformation using sources from Protestant Reformers then having to deal with vicious comments from those people attacking not only my own character, but also the very character and salvation of men such as John Owen, John Calvin, or Martin Luther. These comments were designed to do one thing, to get me and my friends backed into a corner so that we would believe we had to respond to these onslaughts through emotionally based, piece-meal replies. Once they got us to that point then we had left the realm of apologetics and entered into a no-mans land, slugging it out blow for blow with people who had no ethical basis for “playing nice.” It was through many of these ugly events that I came up with the rules for commenting on Possessing the Treasure which must be adhered to by all. I enforce these rules assiduously and since their implementation, those attacks have been few and far between.

We must learn how to handle critical attacks that are leveled against the Christian faith other than through attempts at piece-meal replies and appeals to emotion. I remember trying that method at first back then and it didn’t even slow those fellows down. No, the only way to respond to the onslaught of the unbeliever (or one who thinks he is a Christian, but is obviously not) is by attacking his or her position at its foundations. We must challenge their presuppositions, asking whether knowledge is even possible given the non-Christian’s assumptions and perspective.

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