Before proceeding with various arguments for and against Christianity, including C.S. Lewis’ apologetics, allow me to briefly digress with this caution to the reader that such discussions can cloud the subject. Arguments are used in debate, but winning an argument does not win the heart and the mind of one whose mind is already made up! Personal experience persuades far more than argument over facts, history, and limited scientific understanding. If all we have as Christians is a group of facts and physical evidence, which, while compelling, are not definitive, we simply oppose another adamant group that also possesses a group of facts and physical evidence. How does one interpret the evidence and the arguments? For myself as a Christian, my testimony about the Living God and our Lord, the Christ of the Gospels, springs from my encounter with the Lord while living the Christian life. This most compelling of “arguments” will not be forged in debate, but in life itself. I urge the reader, after considering the arguments of this two-part chapter, to proceed to the chapters that follow, in order for you to gather the strongest evidence—the Christian’s personal experience that grows in the discipline of faith.