Acts 17 records Paul arriving in a city proud of its intellect and discovering that its confidence rested on nothing firm. The same pattern appears in every age. People build their identities on speculation, science, tradition, and fragments of inherited religion, while ignoring the only source of knowledge that can sustain coherent thought. When revelation speaks, it exposes the instability beneath these pursuits and replaces them with truth that carries its own certainty. The sequence of Challenge, Confrontation, and Conquest follows Paul’s movement through Athens and shows how the message about Jesus Christ answers every question about God, humanity, and the world with a rational authority no rival system can supply.
CONTENTS
The God of Reason and Creation
The Apologetics of Confrontation