How to confront Bible mockers...

It's true that there are and have always been those who marginialize and or deny the authority, infallibility, or divine authorship of the Bible by either their lifestyle or direct statements. How does a believer confront these people? Calvin says that coming back with tons of arguments to counter all of their nit-picking of the Scriptures is not the way to counter. The problem is not that there are not logical answers to all their questions...the main problem is that despisers of the Bible do not know God and have not the Holy Spirit showing them the truth of the Bible. But of course....Calvin says it better.... (worth the careful read)

"Yet they who strive to build up firm faith in scripture through disputation are doing things backwards. For my part, although I do not excel either in great dexterity or eloquence, if I were struggling against the most crafty sort of the despisers of God, who seek to appear shrewd and witty in disparaging scripture, I am confident it would not be difficult to silence their clamarous voices. And if it were a useful labor to refute their cavils, I would with no great trouble shatter the boasts they mutter in their lurking places. . But even if anyone clears God's sacred word from man's evil speaking, he will not at once imprint upon their hearts that certainty which piety requires. Since for unbelieving men religion seems to stand by opinion alone, they, in order not to anything foolishly or lightly both wish and demand rational proof that Moses and the prophets spoke divinely.

But I reply: the testimony of the Spirit is more excellent than all reason. For as God alone is a fit witness of himself in His word, so also the word will not find acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken throught the mouth of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts to persuade us that they are faithfully proclaimed what had been divinely commanded....

Some good folk are annoyed that a clear proof is not ready at hand when the impious, unpunished, murmur against God's word. As if the Spirit were not called both "seal" and "guarantee" (2 Corinthians 1:22) for confirming the faith of the godly; because until he illumines their minds, they ever waver among many doubts!"