An Uncertain Sound

Excerpt: Must we then as Christians give up reasoning with unbelievers? If we do then we must also give up preaching or witnessing to unbelievers. Every form of preaching or witnessing to unbelievers involves the setting forth of two mutually exclusive views of God, of man and of the world. The unbeliever can, unless he be imbecile, intellectually follow such a presentation.

The unbeliever may say that the Christian position is unacceptable to him because it is not in accord with logic and fact. Then the Christian will ask him on what he stands when he rejects the Christian view. How do you identify yourself or any fact in your environment in your bottomless ocean of chance? Can you distinguish any “fact” from any other “fact” in a bottomless and shoreless ocean of chance?

Or how, if you could identify yourself or any fact about you, would you discover order or law in the universe? You need a law that will make it impossible for the God of Christianity to exist. You must, in short, make a universal negative judgment about all future as well as all past possibility if you are to make your apposition to Christianity intelligible to yourself.

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