According to R.C. Sproul, it's that you don't know who God is.... 

​Take a couple of minutes to watch this video.

10. “The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.”
-Vance Havner
 
9.  “The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ’s church.”
-C.H. Spurgeon
 
8.  “The faith will totter if the authority of the Holy Scripture loses its hold on men.  We must surrender ourselves to the authority of Holy Scripture, for it can neither mislead nor be misled.
-St. Augustine
 
7.  “The Bible is the scepter by which the heavenly King rules His church.”
-John Calvin
 
6.  “The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.”
-Leon Morris
 
5.  “Ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
-Jerome
 
4.   “The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinion of any man.”
-R.A. Torrey
 
3.  “The truth of Scripture demolishes speculation.”
-R.C. Sproul
 
2.  “All experience must be subservient to the discipline of Scripture.”
-Erroll Hulse
 
1.  “The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.”
-Francis Schaeffer 

Is "faith" in the biblical sense, blind?  If you listen to most people you would think it was!  In the popular vernacular "faith" is little more than a wild stab in the dark. It is belief without evidence...  And while this understanding of "faith" might be true for any number of the world's religions, it is certainly not true for Christianity.  Christianity has never been about belief apart from reason. If it were do you think God would have given His people a 1,500 page book comprised almost entirely of objective truth claims?  It's highly unlikely. My prayer is that the following quotations will help you combat the notion that "faith" (in the christian sense) is belief without evidence.

Dunce: The popular caricature of so-called "persons of faith"

Faith & Reason: Top Ten Quotes

10.  "Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition."
​-A.A. Hodge

9.  "It is not a very robust faith which in order to survive must distort or ignore the facts." 
-Elisabeth Elliot

8.  "The faith that does not come from reason is to be doubted, and the reason that does not lead to faith is to be feared."
-G. Campbell Morgan

7.  "True faith and saving knowledge go together."
-George Swinnock

6.  "Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence."
-John Lennox

5.  "Reason is itself a matter of faith.  It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all."
​-G.K. Chesterton

4.  "God does not expect us to submit our faith to Him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity."
- St. Augustine 

3.  "Faith is knowledge passing into conviction, and it is conviction passing into confidence."
- John Murray

2.  "Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator.  It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second."
-John Lennox

1.  "The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust Him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith."
-J. Gresham Machen 

 In our latest installment of the course, Know Your History, we finish our look at one of the greatest churchmen of the past.  He was a man who would provide godly leadership to the Church in His day.  He was a man whose ministry would lay the groundwork for the Protestant Reformation more than 1000 years after his death.  He was a man who would leave his indelible mark upon Western Civilization as a whole.  He was a man whose name was Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo.
​Why not take the time to meet him?

"Know Your History"
Class #5:  Augustine: The First Theological Giant

I don't normally watch the news...  But I did happen to watch this interview with a Planned Parenthood Executive.

On the one hand I was startled by her willingness to evade truth rather than admit self-deception...  On the other hand, I was reminded that the penalty for living in the dark is not merely that a person cannot see, but that they go blind.

Take a quick look  
​(the relevant portion starts at 3:18):

"Since the Bible teaches that life in the womb is human life, one cannot accept abortion without denying the authority and truth of Scripture in practice."
- Francis Schaeffer 

What is meant by “Christian Apologetics?”

Dr. John Lennox, Christian Apologist

A Disgruntled Chocula

Clearly a communication breakdown had occurred…  and not the sort of Communication Breakdown (pictured right) that one desires to revisit again and again.  Nay!  This was a simple breakdown of verbiage.  When my friend heard the word “apologetics” he had thought I was suggesting that Christians should go around apologizing to everyone for the claims of Chrsitianity – but nothing could have been further from the truth!

The only desirable example of "Communication Breakdown."

So…  What is meant by “apologetics” anyway?