Recently on YouTube, a user by the name of "Open Minded Christian" has been making the rounds amongst the Muslim-Christian debate corner of the internet. He professes to be a Christian, and yet uploads all sorts of stuff on YouTube where he is having "emotional reactions" to Qur'an recitations (a common clickbait trick amongst YouTubers who sympathize with Islam). He has also openly renounced the Christian faith he once professed and taken the Shahada (conversion to Islam). Thus, he is an apostate. That already shows this man's sinister side.
In Hebrews 6:4-6, we read the apostates are essentially unpardonable due to their wickedness of forsaking faith in the Lord Jesus Christ after knowing the truth of His gospel. I would agree highly with this sober comment from the Puritan John Owen:
"...the sin of those who forsake Christ and the gospel, after their conviction of its truth and profession of it, is on many accounts far greater than that of those who crucified him in the days of his flesh. And there are sundry reasons whereon God will exercise more severity towards this latter sort of sinners than towards the former" (John Owen, "The Nature and Causes of Apostasy from the Gospel", in The Works of John Owen [Banner of Truth; Carlisle, PA, 1965], 7:50)
May God have mercy on "Open Minded Christian"'s soul before it is too late.
But beyond that, there was a particular episode that happened recently on YouTube that put on full display his dishonesty and cowardice.
Recently, I was on fellow apologist Chris Claus' livestream on the subject of whether or not Muhammad was a prophet. From minutes 42:25 to around 43:32, Open Minded Christian showed up in the live chat on YouTube while Chris' stream was live. Chris (and I) invited him to come on the stream and have a debate. He declined, even though many other people in the chat were asking him to join the stream and have a discussion, with Chris in particular, since they have had interaction with each other in the past prior to this occasion. "Open Minded Christian" declined, and ran away when he had his opportunity. Why did he do this? One simple reason: he knew that it would expose him for being the absolute fraud and deceiver that he is.
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