I agree with the underlying premise of the OP: people only accept the truth of the Gospel after they are regenerated and their hearts are able to accept it through the work of the Holy Spirit, and no amount of "hard facts" will persuade them. This is plainly obvious in the example of the Pharisees and other contemporaries of Christ who, even though they saw Christ's miracles first hand, chose to reject Him because of the hardness of their hearts. And I also agree in general with the two axioms of God's existence and His revelation in the Bible as a basis for apologetics.

However, I do object to the definition of faith as being opposite of fact, and won't belabor the point, since others have already pointed out why this is flawed. Another minor point is that while we are told to "pass over and move on" from someone who does no accept these premises, I disagree that God has "already passed over him." I don't think this is necessarily true, since God can affect regeneration at any point in their life. To assume someone has no chance of being saved simply because their hearts are hard at a given point in time is invalid. God hadn't passed over Paul when he persecuted Christians, but it simply wasn't the time for him to be called in God's perfect plan.

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Mason
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
New York, NY

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." - Isaiah 1:18