Earlier this week, I wrote about a perplexing study that found a large majority (84%) of American churchgoers believe they are ready to defend the truth of Scripture—but 28% say that some of the truths of Scripture are now obsolete because of changes in our culture. So that prompts the question: What do they mean by saying they’re ready to make a defense?

Much of what Scripture teaches is not popular in our culture today—marriage is for one man and one woman only, there are just two genders in humans, abortion is murder, the earth is young, mankind did not evolve, and so on—but that does not mean it is obsolete. God’s Word is eternal, and its truth will long outlast this generation and all the ones to come.