Dear Editor,
Toby Pitchers argues persuasively for apologetics, and yet I have my doubts because of an important glitch. When Peter writes ‘Always be prepared to give an answer for the hope in you’, it is not at all intended as a rational argument, but as an explanation for suffering for doing what is right.
Blindness in Scripture is not regarding our rational understanding, but about failing to see that God is a ruler who suffers and dies, unlike other rulers of the world. In following Christ we are told that it is in losing our lives that we save them, and this requires explanation – that we follow a God with a radically subversive rule where the first is last, and the last is first.
