Hi, Christian! I’m really impressed with all you’ve read! When is enough enough? Specifically,
1) As a Christian layman, how deep should I go in apologetic literature? I’d say that you’ve already read enough apologetics to be well-equipped to meet the challenges that will confront the average layman. But I’d issue a word of caution: it’s not enough to have read all this material. You need to have mastered it, so that you can share it accurately and spontaneously from memory. If called upon, can you share the arguments you read about in On Guard and answer the usual objections to them? Or do you know merely that there’s a chapter in that book about, say, Leibniz’s cosmological argument—whose premises I can’t remember—having something to do with a necessary being. . . .
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