From the introduction in my new book: God Didn't Create Robots: Commonsense Christian Apologetics.

Part 1

When atheists and religious skeptics today attack Christianity and the Bible…in my opinion they are attacking the wrong things…in a cleverly disguised diversionary tactic…unbeknownst to them.

In the contemporary apologetics debate…about the reasonableness of faith and the existence of God…the questions raised and the answers given in response…are both equally brilliant and well-articulated. They represent the highest and the best of human thinking.

But the program of Christian apologetics…as brilliantly persuasive as it is…is largely the product of responses to criticisms and objections coming out of philosophical atheism over the past three or four hundred years.

The formulation of the systematic Christian apologetics argument has been largely reactive…ably constructed piece-by-piece in response to criticisms about the existence of God and the truthfulness of the Bible…originating naturally and historically out of the Scientific Revolution, the Doctrine of Progress stemming from the two Industrial Revolutions, and the enormous progress that has been made in the political, economic, social, and cultural structures of modern societies.

But the problem here is that in the reactive mode…in the defensive position of responding to criticisms and objections raised by atheists and skeptics…most if not all of the issues debated…land within what I call in this book worldly conventional normalcy and thinking…when placed on the graduated vertical spectrum of goodness and light (discussed here and throughout this book)…fall well below the biblical narrative stories of faith.

Such issues as the foibles of institutionalized Christianity when it overlaps into “religion”…the seeming difficulty in explaining the presence of evil and suffering…whether or not the multi-verse or many-worlds hypothesis is a plausible chance-substitute explanation for the obvious intelligent design we observe in the fine-tuning of the natural world from the galactic scale of the Big-Bang down to the microscopic world of DNA…the reliability of the Old and New Testaments texts as ancient documents…the historical validity of the gospel records of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ…these and other issues belong to a group of typical and repetitive topics that …by definition and somewhat by necessity due to change and progress…have arisen from within the skeptical and anti-theistic zone of worldly conventional normalcy and thinking (1 Cor. 2:6-12).

But the centermost issue at the heart of reality…the displacement of our ways with God’s higher ways…which enables God-sovereignty to become actualized in people’s lives…throughout the Bible and in the lives of tens of millions of Spirit-born Christians today…is entirely missed by religious skeptics…and avoided at all costs by Satan.