Bill, we've encountered a YouTuber who has a beef with Christian apologetics.

Chris Cornthwaite has his PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto, Master

of Arts, the University of Western Ontario, Master of Divinity,

with distinction from the University of Western Ontario, and a lot more credentials. He was once in

ministry and was once a teaching assistant at the University of Toronto. He's no longer in ministry nor in academia. He has

rejected the small town fundamentalism of his youth, including young earth creationism, things like that.

Yet he says he still identifies as a Christian in his words. You know, we could get into identity politics, but we'll save a lot of that for another time.

It's a really big deal these day.

What you identify, how you identify.

And I'm curious how this might relate to your work on saving faith in your systematic philosophical theology, is it enough to

merely identify as a Christian? I think there are two components of saving faith, what I call

propositional faith and personal faith. Propositional faith involves belief in certain truth claims. For example,

Paul in Romans 10 says, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart

that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. So there are certain propositional facts that should be believed as part of being a Christian.

But then in addition to that, it's not just a matter of believing certain truths.

James says, do you believe that God is one? Well and good. The demons also believe

and shudder. So what the demons lack is not propositional faith. What they lack is that

personal trust in God, personal trust in Christ. And so it's important to have both of these,

both the personal commitment of love and trust to Christ, but then also certain propositional beliefs.

Well, obviously, it really jumped out of me when I ran across his video, the danger

of apologetics. And so let's look at what he thinks here. Here's the introductory clip. Let's go to

clip number one. I should say, my name is Chris. I have a master of divinity, a master of arts and theology, a PhD in Christian origin.

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