# Defeaters And Answer Pointers

Global defeaters include evil, animal suffering, hiddenness, pluralism, hell, Old Testament violence, and unanswered prayer. Textual and canon defeaters include Gospel differences, textual variants, canon boundaries, and prophecy ambiguity.

These rows are not anti-Christian vandalism. They are part of a truth-first map.

Answer pointers should identify response families: cruciform theodicy, soul-making, skeptical theism, eschatological repair, canonical-development arguments, textual criticism, genre/context, and historical method. They do not erase the pressure by assertion.

Misuse guardrails:
- Do not hide defeaters.
- Do not let skepticism function as a worldview-free veto.
- Do not let answer pointers become cheap cancellation.
- Preserve the burden ledger: what each worldview explains, borrows, reduces, defers, contradicts, evades, or collapses.
