On an internet news site, in the comments section, and atheist posted three scriptures (two from the "Old Testament" and one from the gospel of John) and asked why Christians aren't obeying or claiming them. Several Christians tried to answer, but the hole just seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. I stayed out of the fray.
I knew if I tried to help by pointing to the practice of right division of the Word of truth (2 Tim 2:15) in such a limited format, I'd be buying myself a two-pronged attack. Dispensationalism is anathema at almost all seminaries these days, but the only answer to the charge.
The problem is not just that atheists and agnostics and people of other religions could be confused by the vast numbers of scripture commands and promises that we do not practice or see today, a greater problem is causing doubt and fear in young believers that the Bible is a fraud.