Some Christians, like Charles H. Spurgeon (the 19th-century pastor who was rightly named the prince of preachers), have tacitly and confidently downplayed apologetics by asserting such spiritual-sounding tripe as, “The word of God no more needs defense than does a lion in a cage. Just let the lion loose, and it will take care of itself!”  It sounds pious but is utterly antibiblical.  It is true that God needs nothing.  My apologetic on my best day will be inadequate and feeble compared to God himself speaking to a pagan.  But it is also true that God has been pleased to ordain the vindication of himself in this age by believers through reasoned argumentation.  Scripture is full of this fact.  Enter the 20th-century apologetics jedi, Greg Bahnsen, to complete my thoughts.