In our trivium of theology, above, the first point that we set out was the foundational and basic (i.e., principial) status of God’s revelation in Holy Scripture. We will recall that it is just because of this status that persuasion can take its proper place in our covenantal defense of Christianity. If our apologetic did not include the principial status of Scripture, but instead saw the Bible as something the status of which needed to be rationally or evidentially proved, then the central place of persuasion would necessarily recede into the background.
