Lets face it, you cannot defend God, convincingly. You can offer explanations and all that but the truth is no one is bound or obliged to believe how you think your God is good. To an atheist, a Muslim praising his God, a Buddhist praising Buddha and a Christian praising Jesus is all the same. Most atheists display a remarkable ignorance of faith and its inner working. And so very often if you are going to quote your bible, my bet is it is not going to work because to the atheist it is a “crap load of fabricated stories”.
Regardless of what you believe, he is entitled to his opinion. But my point is, do not step into something you can not achieve, and that is you can not defend God and the truth is you are never asked in the scriptures to defend God. There is a difference, you are called to show how God changed your life. Don’t be pissed off, do not be angered, frustrating as it may be, do not give into it. God is more than adequate to defend himself, for that he doesn’t need you. But your faith is something that only you can defend and that is something you should always remember.
Read more: http://johnadavid.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/defend-your-faith-not-god/
The Bible calls us to defend our faith and argument against that are not Biblical. Some will say that the word of God doesn't need to be defended, but in defining what the word of God is you are defending it. If someone asks you what exactly the word of God is and you tell them it is the Bible, then you have just defended the stance that the Bible is the word of God. If you claim that someone talked into faith can be talked out of faith and use that as a defense against reasoning someone into believing in God, then you need to read 1 Corinthians 15, for in it Paul gives reason for believing in Christ**.
Those who oppose these clear biblical teachings and examples may say, "The Word of God does not need to be defended!" But which of the world's writings are the Word of God? As soon as someone answers that, he is doing apologetics. Some claim that human reason cannot tell us anything about God-but that statement itself is a "reasonable" statement about God. If it's not, then there is no reason to believe it. A favorite saying is, "If someone can talk you into Christianity, then someone else can talk you out." Why is this a problem? Did not Paul himself give a criterion (the resurrection) by which Christianity should be accepted or rejected in 1 Corinthians 15? It is only misplaced piety that answers in the negative.
Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/defend-faith.html#ixzz2wnPOM2wf
There are countless other passages that would reinforce reason in the Bible and if you need more, feel free to ask me.
*1 Peter 3:15 - "But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect," New International Version
**1 Corinthians 15
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