From my actual main man, John Owen

Try not to compare this post to the last one, because honestly, you'll just get depressed and wish that you lived in the 17th century, which is totally not what I'm going for here.

There are two ways of convincing unbelievers,--the one insisted on by the apostles and their followers, the other by some learned men since their days. The way principally insisted on by the apostles was, by preaching the word itself unto them in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit; by the power whereof, manifesting the authority of God in it, they were convinced, and falling down acknowledged God to be in it of a truth. It is likely that in this their proposal of the gospel, the doctrine and truths contained in it, unto unvelievers, those of atheistical spirits would both deride them and it; and so, indeed, it came to pass, many esteeming themselves to be babblers and their doctrine to be arrant folly. But yet they desisted not from pursuing their work in the same way; whereunto God gave success. The other way is, to prove unto unbelievers that the Scripture is true and divine by rational arguments; wherein some learned persons have laboured, especially in these last ages, to very good purpose.