Epistemology is the study of knowledge. How does one know anything? How can I know what is true?

One means of knowledge is reason. Two plus two equals four is an equation of reasonability. The Bible says, "The wisdom from above is ... open to reason" (James 3:17). The discipline of apologetics is the use of reason to defend the faith.

Experience is a second means of knowledge. I know fire burns because I touched it! The blind man Jesus healed was being harassed by the Pharisees over Christ restoring his sight. He defended the incident by appealing to experience. "This one thing I know. I was blind, but now I see" (John 9:25). Then there is human authority. How do I know man walked on the moon? Because summer of 1969 I was home from college and Walter Cronkite, television news anchor, wit…