"The Christian's final standard, the inspired word of God, teaches us that 'the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge' (Prov 1:7). If the apologist treats the starting point of knowledge as something other than reverence for God, then unconditional submission to the unsurpassed greatness of God's wisdom at the end of the argumentation does not really make sense. There would always be something greater than God's wisdom - namely, the supposed wisdom of one's intellectual starting point. The word of God would necessarily (logically, if not personally) remain subordinate to that autonomous final standard. The situation is pictured well by C.S. Lewis: 'The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock... The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the Bench and God is in the Dock.'"
(Greg Bahnsen in Van Til's Apologetic)
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