In a culture submerged in the waters of skepticism and agnosticism, many Christians feel helpless and unequipped to respond to critics. Here, looking at the past and turning to the giants on whose shoulders we stand brings clarity and conviction.   It was Solomon who wrote, "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9).   Apparent innovative judgments upon the Scriptures are revealed as mere refurbishments of old, tired schemes already answered by theological stalwarts. One such granite giant, was J.C. Ryle (1816-1900), the reliable, evangelical Bishop of Liverpool. In Ryle's own time, romanism, secularism, and liberalism had already swept across the nation. By his peers, he was considered a religious relic of the past. Against the wave of modernism, Ryle stood firmly upon the solid rock of Scripture. He well understood how to answer critics of the faith. The following excerpt i...