We discuss Jahaziel renouncing Christianity, common claims against Christianity, and the urgency of our task.Here is the article that is discussed: http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/news/38-backstage/12223-legendary-uk-rapper-jahaziel-renounces-christian-faithAlso, Unapologetic: A Guide for Defending Your Christian Convictions is ONLY $2.99 on Kindle currently! Grab it here.Audio

TranscriptThere's a spiritual condition going around these days and I wonder have you and your children been vaccinated?

Apostasy. Apostasy is spreading like a cancer and it's spreading throughout every church and every age group. Now, it effects some churches and denomination more than others and it effects some age groups more than others, but nonetheless, apostasy, or said more simply, the leaving and renouncing of the Christian faith, is spreading. People are renouncing Christianity left and right, some of them are famous, some of them are unknowns.

Today we're going to talk about someone, who at least in some circles, like the Christian Rap circle, is famous. His name's Jahaziel and in the UK at least, he is a famous, formerly Christian rapper. Now, before we talk about him and how he has renounced his Christian beliefs, at least the ones he used to hold, I do want to point out that our teenagers are renouncing their Christian beliefs.

Depending on the statistics you look at, between 40 and 78% of students will leave the faith between high school and college. They'll just drop off; they won't be in church anymore. That is disturbing and actually, that's the main reason I got into teaching and speaking on apologetics because I saw this disturbing trend and it horrified me. I wanted to do what I could to help stem the tide of those that are leaving Christianity for some other religion or non-religion, but for what ultimately amounts to idolatry and hostility with God.

But back to Jahaziel, here's what he said. "Now, after 20 years of being vocal about the positives of the Christian faith, I would like to take some time to be equally vocal about the negatives I have found, i.e. Christianity and its controlling dictatorship, its historic blood trail, its plagiarized Bible stories, characters, and concepts, the many human errors of the Bible and its contradictions, the brutal nature of God, its involvement in the slave trade, the Crusades, the inquisitions and the witch hunts, its second-class view of women, its masculinization of God, its emasculation of men, its financial corruption." You get the drift.

He says, "Yes, I will go on and I will not be silent as some have asked. My integrity will not allow me to be so passive against a mass corruption. In all love, J." Wow, there is a lot there.

What I would like to point out first is that this is a classic example the 1 John 2:19, which says, "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us because if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us, but they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us." The clear teaching of Scripture is that we cannot lose our salvation if we have indeed ever attained it at one point. The reason for that is because God secures our salvation. God does the work of salvation. It is not our faith that saves us, it is the object of our faith (God) that saves us.

Yes, faith is necessary, but it is ultimately God who saves us and God secures us as Jesus said in John 6. "All that the father gives to me will come to me and the one who comes to me I will never turn away. I will raise him up on the last day." Jesus never loses any that the father has given him. If someone ultimately leaves Christianity, what we have to say, indeed what Scripture tells us, is that they were never actually a Christian before in spite of appearing so.…