Each Sunday, after preaching to my small congregation, I would go home wondering if my sermons were true. These doubts drove me to study apologetics , from the Greek apologia , meaning defense . Faith and Foolishness Faith, however, is not foolishness. I have faith this ice will hold me up.
Unrealistic faith collapses in college classrooms when challenged.
It harbors nagging doubts when facing a crisis. But genuine faith is believing on the basis of powerful evidence, not in spite of inadequate evidence. And as any courtroom observer knows, proof requires evidence. I remember hearing a science professor reduce to shreds the arguments of an agnostic student by simply asking him a series of repetitive questions. From elements existing as residue of the Big Bang.