The drill, taken to the street. A voice from the crowd shouts one of the thirty-eight arguments on the Answering the Skeptic board — and four verses stand before you. Only one of them is the verse that answers: the very verse the board itself carries against that argument. Strike back with it, against the clock. The crowd does not wait. Choose your level — the same five rungs as every exercise, freely chosen, nothing locked.
The famous heckles every preacher meets first — suffering, hypocrites, hell, the good person — and the most famous answer verses in the Book. The decoys are shouted from far away, and there is no clock: learn to strike true before you learn to strike fast.
8 heckles at this level
Face the crowd at this level ›The standard crowd: who made God, many paths, no contradictions, the only way. Honest decoys, an honest clock — thirty seconds a heckle.
8 heckles at this level
Face the crowd at this level ›The working objections of the street — science, prayer unanswered, the people who never heard. The decoys now answer neighbouring objections, so a near verse is a wrong verse. Twenty seconds.
8 heckles at this level
Face the crowd at this level ›The hard crowd: slavery, cherry-picking, the wars of the Old Testament, the Trinity. Every decoy answers the objection standing right beside yours. Twelve seconds.
8 heckles at this level
Face the crowd at this level ›The cliff. The board’s hardest arguments — the copycat charge, foreknowledge and hell, the groaning creation — and every decoy answers a neighbouring objection in the same family. Eight seconds. The crowd does not wait.
6 heckles at this level
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