Giving a defense for Jesus is not focused on apologetics but His gospel!
Giving a defense for the hope that is found within you is focused on speaking about Jesus Christ.
When you really think about it, it is boasting in the Lord of his salvation that he has given to you — not for someone to be sitting here trying to prove somebody wrong or do apologetics on them to showcase how much knowledge that they may think they have after someone would have questioned how much knowledge they have on a topic of the Bible.
We are called to point people to Jesus, not to ourselves.
There’s a time and a place for that but a lot of people have misunderstood that this verse:
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,..
- 1 Peter 3:15
a lot of people have misconstrued that verse “to mean to them” to showcase their intellectual skills, which leads to debates that mostly don’t lead people to the truth but leads people to knowledge and someone else’s opinions.
And if somebody does convert off of you, after you would have showed to them how much knowledge you would have then they would have been converted just off of knowledge while still being dead in their sins in their flesh because when you hear most religious conversation online you seldom hear people pointing to Jesus or preaching the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, was buried in the tomb for 3 days, but rose from the grave after the third day.
You see many people debating and enjoying their “religious” conversations that would be void of God while many would say they just “preached the gospel” when in reality they only preached the false god that they made up in their mind.
And do not be surprised that most of them who do this also profess to be Christian while as it is written in scripture:
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
- 2 Timothy 3:1–5
