“Kyle Butt hopefully will learn there is no reason to address what “skeptics” say.”
Sure there is. If nobody addresses them, then people who are not committed to one side or the other will be swayed by the skeptics, because that is the only opinion they will hear.
Perhaps I should explain better.
We address what skeptics say simply by teaching the Bible.
Not by addressing their idiotic comments directly as if equal in value.
Butts makes a mistake in attributing so much space to skeptic “positions” and quotes when it is not necessary.
The subject of what the cursing of the fig tree means is more than enough and contaminating it with nonsense that is unnecessary just detracts and weakens the apologetic.
I liken to putting on the full armor. No one needs to defend the Bible to skeptics, just like no one has to defend that a sword is a sword.
But we do need to teach each other how to use the sword, but don’t need to argue with skeptics that our sword can function as a sword.