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Q&A on The Historical Adam with the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology
Dr. Craig responds to questions regarding his work on the historical Adam.
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4:2 - Molinism & Middle Knowledge | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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Section Four: Divine Omniscience Part Two: Molinism & Middle Knowledge Check out section four of this 17-part graduate-level course from Dr. Craig on the divine attributes. This unique one-week intensive taught at Houston Christian University is divided into five sections. Section One: Divine Incorporeality Section Two: Divine Aseity Section Three: Divine Eternity Section Four: Divine Omniscien...
4:3 - Arguments for Divine Middle Knowledge | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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Section Four: Divine Omniscience Part Three: Arguments for Divine Middle Knowledge Check out section four of this 17-part graduate-level course from Dr. Craig on the divine attributes. This unique one-week intensive taught at Houston Christian University is divided into five sections. Section One: Divine Incorporeality Section Two: Divine Aseity Section Three: Divine Eternity Section Four: Divi...
Questions on Visions, Sin, and Young Earth Creationism | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
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Questions from listeners about visions in the Bible, the origin of sin, and whether Young Earth Creationism is an embarrassment. For more resources visit: www.reasonablefaith.org We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/ Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other channel which contains short clips: czcams.com/users/drcraigvideos Follow Reasonab...
Are There Numbers? - Peter van Inwagen & William Lane Craig | EPS 2023
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Evangelical Philosophical Society Panel: Are There Numbers? Part one of this panel discussion features openning precis from from Peter Van Inwagen and William Lane Craig. Parts two and three will included the respondents, replies to respondents, and audience Q&A. Respondents: Kenneth Boyce Thomas Ward Robert Koons Moderator: Mitch Stokes For more resources visit: www.reasonablefaith.org We welc...
4:1 - Omniscience - Biblical Data and Definitions | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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Section Four: Divine Omniscience Part One: Biblical Data and Definitions Check out section four of this 17-part graduate-level course from Dr. Craig on the divine attributes. This unique one-week intensive taught at Houston Christian University is divided into five sections. Section One: Divine Incorporeality Section Two: Divine Aseity Section Three: Divine Eternity Section Four: Divine Omnisci...
Questions on Human Reproduction, Heaven, and Islam | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
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Why would God create someone whom he knows will reject him? Will we be bored in heaven if everything is perfect? These and other questions are discussed by Dr. Craig. For more resources visit: www.reasonablefaith.org We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/ Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other channel which contains short clips: czcams.c...
Questions on Personal Causation, Time, and Christology | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
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Answers to questions on personal causation, God and time, and Dr Craig's current study on the nature of Christ. For more resources visit: www.reasonablefaith.org We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/ Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other channel which contains short clips: czcams.com/users/drcraigvideos Follow Reasonable Faith On Twitt...
Questions on Evangelism, the God Particle, and the Atonement | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
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Dr. Craig takes questions on the necessity of evangelism, how God sustains everything into existence, and how sins were atoned for by Christ before his crucifixion. For more resources visit: www.reasonablefaith.org We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/ Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other channel which contains short clips: czcams.com...
3:4 - Divine Temporality and the Nature of Time | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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Section Three: Divine Eternity Part Four: Arguments for Divine Temporality; Eternity and the Nature of Time Dive into section three of this 17-part graduate-level course from Dr. Craig on the divine attributes. This unique one-week intensive taught at Houston Christian University is divided into five sections. Section One: Divine Incorporeality Section Two: Divine Aseity Section Three: Divine E...
End-Time Apologetics & Suffering | Christian Open Academy Interview
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End-Time Apologetics & Suffering | Christian Open Academy Interview
3:3 - Responding to STR | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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3:3 - Responding to STR | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
Penal Substitution, Dualism, and Apologetics
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Penal Substitution, Dualism, and Apologetics
God & Time | Interview Q&A
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God & Time | Interview Q&A
The Seven Most Googled Questions About God | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
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The Seven Most Googled Questions About God | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
Fantasy of the Gaps | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
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Fantasy of the Gaps | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
Big Bang, Evolution, and the Bible on the Judaism Demystified Podcast
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Big Bang, Evolution, and the Bible on the Judaism Demystified Podcast
3:2 - Special Theory of Relativity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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3:2 - Special Theory of Relativity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
Craig Keener on the Historical Jesus | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
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Craig Keener on the Historical Jesus | Reasonable Faith Video Podcast
How Can Jesus Be Both God & Man? | Biblical Worldview Conference
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How Can Jesus Be Both God & Man? | Biblical Worldview Conference
3:1 - Biblical Data on Divine Eternity & Timelessness | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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3:1 - Biblical Data on Divine Eternity & Timelessness | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
Scientific Materialism and Woke Ideology | Reasonable Faith Podcast
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Scientific Materialism and Woke Ideology | Reasonable Faith Podcast
Discussing the Canaanites with Alex O'Connor
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Discussing the Canaanites with Alex O'Connor
2:3 - Responses to Premise One on Divine Aseity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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2:3 - Responses to Premise One on Divine Aseity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
2:2 - Challenge of Platonism - Divine Aseity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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2:2 - Challenge of Platonism - Divine Aseity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
Dawkins: Religion Is Still Evil - Part Two | Reasonable Faith Podcast
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Dawkins: Religion Is Still Evil - Part Two | Reasonable Faith Podcast
Dawkins: Religion Is Still Evil - Part One | Reasonable Faith Podcast
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Dawkins: Religion Is Still Evil - Part One | Reasonable Faith Podcast
2:1 - Biblical Data on Divine Aseity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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2:1 - Biblical Data on Divine Aseity | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
1:4 - Objections Q&A on Divine Incorporeality | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
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1:4 - Objections Q&A on Divine Incorporeality | Advanced Course - The Attributes of God
Dawkins/O'Connor Interview | In-Depth Analysis w/ Mike Licona & Dr. Craig
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Dawkins/O'Connor Interview | In-Depth Analysis w/ Mike Licona & Dr. Craig

Komentáře

  • @marlinkhoshababratdeel2250
    @marlinkhoshababratdeel2250 Před 5 hodinami

    She is very right whatever she saying about Muslims and Islam. She speaks the truth and follow her please we need more of her and you can ask any questions of Middle East. They’ll tell you exactly what happened to our people since this Islam came and invaded our country. We have no life no place to live. We came to America scattered to Europe. Canada still came after us where we gonna go ask yourself as it’s not religion. It’s a movement of Satan wants to destroy our freedom, invade our country and brainwash our young people wake up people clean house.

  • @marlinkhoshababratdeel2250
    @marlinkhoshababratdeel2250 Před 5 hodinami

    I respect both of you highly to do this show for educating the world about this movement of Islam good for you I am proud of you

  • @qodesmith520
    @qodesmith520 Před 7 hodinami

    That was so good. Great to see the connection with brothers & sisters on the other side of the globe!

  • @midimusicforever
    @midimusicforever Před 11 hodinami

    God is fully sovereign, that doesn't mean that God micro-manage everything. That's how I would sum it up.

  • @logictophysics_dotcom499
    @logictophysics_dotcom499 Před 14 hodinami

    If it turns out that the physical world can be derived (or created) from math and logic, then neither is the physical world conserved by God because then it is as timeless as math.

    • @midimusicforever
      @midimusicforever Před 11 hodinami

      What do you even mean? The physical world isn't timeless.

    • @logictophysics_dotcom499
      @logictophysics_dotcom499 Před 10 hodinami

      @@midimusicforever It is now true forever that man landed on the moon in 1969. And if it were predetermined that it should always have happened that man landed on the moon in 1969, then it is a timeless truth.

  • @pathfinding4687
    @pathfinding4687 Před 16 hodinami

    Dr Craig is so woefully incorrect here and let me explain why. Dr Craig makes foundationally incorrect assumptions so everything that springs from those errors is also in error. His first mistake is to think that those who are not descended from Adam & Even are in need of redemption. He even thinks that if intelligent aliens exist on planets thousands of light years away and who lived a million years before the time of Adam & Even then they too would be born in need of redemption. The reason why Adam and Even and all their descendants are in need of redemption is because Adam an Even 'unengrafted' from God and instead engrafted to the false god Satan. As a result, all those generations born engrafted to their original ancestor Adam and Even are born engrafted to that same branch that is wedded to Satan and not God. So each branch of the branch has to sever itself from that lineage and engraft to Jesus. But beings who did not sin against God and fall and engraft to a false God do not suffer from that state of being unengrafted from God so there is no need to 're-engraft'. Dr Craig's second disastrous assumption is that physiology is not that relevant to spiritual growth. So if you have this or that hominid physiology then you can just as easily grow spiritually to perfection. Well God went to great lengths over vast amounts of time, billions of years to bring about home sapiens physiology. He also saw to it that every other kind of hominid was extinct (put into a deep sleep). Even a human who has a very slight dna difference and disorder such as down syndrome has great trouble growing beyond an emotional and intellectual level. Dr Craig doesn't understand that emotional and intellectual development are the scaffolding/ladder by which the spirit grows along with constant infusions of God's love. To suggest that the exact physiology that God brought about over 14 billion years of effort just doesn't matter and another species can work just as well is frankly just ignorant. Could God have put a soul into an ape or a cow or an ant? Of course not.

    • @NR-rv8rz
      @NR-rv8rz Před 15 hodinami

      Indeed. And it's a false equivalency to say that just because there are some stone age home sapiens on earth in recent centuries then that's proof that an entirely different species who is also stone age just on par with Homo Sapiens. I believe I have even heard Dr Craig saying that it would be 'racist' to object to inter-species marriage/breeding if those other hominids were still around. Well, would it not be a kind of blasphemy against God's design to say that homo sapiens should breed with a difference species that God saw fit to let all go extinct before they could interact with homo sapiens at scale? It is also thought that most homo sapiens women who bred with Neanderthal actually struggled to carry the offspring to term with most resulting in the woman's' body rejecting the conception via miscarriage.

  • @jps0117
    @jps0117 Před 22 hodinami

    Two years before Christopher died.

  • @elizaleski9618
    @elizaleski9618 Před dnem

    I would love if this was translated to English lol. Jk, some of the things go over my head, I will have to google a few words I guess

  • @lizadowning4389
    @lizadowning4389 Před dnem

    Low Bar Bill has no clue to what a scientific theory is. No Bill, there are NOT "several theories of evolution", there is only one--which we call 'Modern Synthesis'. And it entails a body of several hypotheses, all being tested and grounded in empirical evidence, that make up evolutionary theory.

  • @richardredmond1463

    I think it's young earth creationism that discredits Christianity more, flying in the face of mountains of scientific evidence about the age of the universe, offering an unintended (by the Holy Spirit) analogy with Jesus's turning the water into wine as it's only new testament defence. Really bad....

  • @annettebaskerville1582

    Dale wins again. WLC is the loveliest of men but unfortunately he looked as if was going to have a fit of some kind as Dale tied him in knots. For Christians there is One God - the Father. 1Cor 8:6

  • @midimusicforever
    @midimusicforever Před 2 dny

    This channel is so under-appreciated!

  • @--..-...-..-.--....

    15:52 THIS. THIS is why you want to indoctrinate children at a young age to believe in this fairytale. So they can't walk away from it. Pure evil

  • @DainBramaged00
    @DainBramaged00 Před 2 dny

    She does speak about a subjective "feeling" of connection in her conversion. You can hear about this if you listen to her debate with Richard Dawkins.

  • @abhishekandstuff
    @abhishekandstuff Před 2 dny

    Always love your content❤ From India

  • @Eduardude
    @Eduardude Před 3 dny

    I feel a little sorry for Shermer. Blind to everything non-material, but has no clue he's blind. It's very sad, in a way.

  • @joshwatson5561
    @joshwatson5561 Před 3 dny

    Craig broke the Law with this beating:)

  • @Tyler-Clark
    @Tyler-Clark Před 3 dny

    Love you Bill and the work you do but within a matter of minutes you were hypocritical on a position, which is that you said it's wrong to implement our modern scientific understanding into the text because the original audience couldn't have known that (which is correct and proper exegesis) but then you go on to say that Noah's story is in conflict with modern science. FACT: OT and NT authors understood patriarchal figures to be literal people. Jesus himself referenced Adam as a literal person. You are wrongly shoehorning in modern science and theistic evolution into the text. The OT audience believed whole heartedly that the patriarchal figures and their stories literally happened. Modern age conservative Jews who take their faith seriously still do believe that. Why would Matthew go to the trouble of writing Jesus' forefathers, on each side, all the way back to ADAM if he wasn't a real person? The 6-day creation story is referenced in Exodus as literal. I would love to hash it out with you if you're willing.

    • @AllTheNations2819
      @AllTheNations2819 Před 2 dny

      @Tyler-Clark I agree with you Tyler. Dr. Craig is sadly catering to the authority of science over the authority of the Bible. The authors of scripture, whether you see them as inspired by God or not, clearly see Adam and the events in Genesis as literal and historical which I am yet to hear a clear explanation from Dr. Craig.

  • @JesusIsTheWayLifeTruth

    Tuggy is making much more sense. The other guy appears to be flustered.

  • @JesusIsTheWayLifeTruth

    Thank you for starting out with defining the trinity. However, he goes on to say that it's simple... but it really isn't. ONE God, but made up of THREE persons... that would be THREE Gods... I'll keep listening. I'm trying to understand, having not been raised in a trinitarian tradition. Maybe "persons" needs defined? Seems self-evident, but maybe it's not.

  • @AdamLeis
    @AdamLeis Před 3 dny

    Great conversations and great questions. I am happy to learn of William Hasker as another voice on a very interesting topic.

  • @drlaurav
    @drlaurav Před 3 dny

    God bless your faithful disciples! I hold advanced degrees and need to keep a dictionary handy to look up some of the extensive, prolific vocabulary issuing forth from Dr. Craig's lips! I remember as a child reading The Reader's Digest and they had a section entitled, "It Pays to Increase Your Word Power". I loved learning new words, their origins, etc., even though to this day I often mispronounce words, putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable! Hahaha 😂. Dr. Craig, I always feel my frontal lobe growing a bit, the neurons twitching to process your apologetic prose! Blessings to you and Jan!

  • @georgemonnatjr.172
    @georgemonnatjr.172 Před 3 dny

    Interesting discussion

  • @wadetisthammer3612
    @wadetisthammer3612 Před 3 dny

    38:52 to 44:24 - Fascinating commentary on the original sin doctrine.

  • @EuropeanQoheleth
    @EuropeanQoheleth Před 3 dny

    7:30 Heh, the computer incident. That was a classic.

  • @ebobing
    @ebobing Před 3 dny

    I have gone on a "Quest for the historical Serpent" of the garden of eden. In my deep dive i have confirmed it would have been a Cryptophis boschmai. I look forward to publishing a book based on this research very soon, It will be in the blackwell companion to natural mytho biology.

    • @DolioFoilio
      @DolioFoilio Před 3 dny

      Hope you've encountered Dr Michael Heiser's position on the Serpent in the garden of Eden. If not, you should immediately watch his lectures available freely on YT.

  • @ebobing
    @ebobing Před 3 dny

    I have gone on a "Quest for the historical Serpent" of the garden of eden. In my deep dive i have confirmed it would have been a Cryptophis boschmai. I look forward to publishing a book based on this research very soon, It will be in the blackwell companion to natural mytho biology.

  • @rowmon7578
    @rowmon7578 Před 4 dny

    This is a tough subject matter even for Christians to fathom.

  • @abela801
    @abela801 Před 4 dny

    where are my Ethiopians??

  • @user-wu8sj3ee3d
    @user-wu8sj3ee3d Před 4 dny

    Quoting the Bible isn’t proof of a god.

  • @herberthines6495
    @herberthines6495 Před 4 dny

    Dr Craig, John Lennox, Turek, Dr Ross, etc all these guys are incredible scientists who know astrophysics, biology, philosophy, mathematics, and much more. They say consistently that there are basic principles that underlie the Christian faith that are in line with science and the existence of all things in our universe. The eye, our senses, reproduction, the complexity of our brains, and consciousness, our ability to reason, create, do mathematics, and learn languages and complex information… this is not a sign of random mutations. We have a conscience. Our moral objectivity is built in to us. Most people would agree that cold blooded murder is wrong. Rape is wrong. Child abuse is wrong. But without a God, there is absolutely no moral objectivity. It means there is no objective right and wrong. So go ahead and do whatever you want. Then come back and tell me how that worked out. Without God, we would not even understand right and wrong. The only way to know a line is crooked, is to have a straight line as your basis on which to judge all other lines. This is the same with any morality. The reason we can judge right from wrong is because we know what right is and that wrong things contrast things that are right.

    • @citizenghosttown
      @citizenghosttown Před 2 dny

      I don't know who Dr Ross is. But none of the other three men you named are scientists.

    • @samdg1234
      @samdg1234 Před 14 hodinami

      Craig has said that his favorite argument for the existence of God is a version of the cosmological argument. He goes on to say, however, that university students find the moral argument the most compelling. Here is Craig (edit: I had to remove what should have been a working link - for some reason not allowed - put "drcraigvideos atheism and nihilism" in the search bar) essentially defending this by suggesting, successfully, that no one can live as if God does not exist in this way or in light of this reasoning.

    • @citizenghosttown
      @citizenghosttown Před 11 hodinami

      @@samdg1234 Craig's moral argument is the weakest (and most fallacious) of all of his arguments.

    • @samdg1234
      @samdg1234 Před 11 hodinami

      @@citizenghosttown What, you're not going to accuse me of an ad hominem here? Nevertheless, you've shown yourself unwilling to engage in good-faith discussion. Interaction with you appears pointless.

    • @citizenghosttown
      @citizenghosttown Před 10 hodinami

      @@samdg1234 Good faith discussion? Good one. 🤣You keep saying that "interaction" with me is useless, and yet you can can't stop trolling me. You don't fool anyone.

  • @mathewsamuel1386
    @mathewsamuel1386 Před 4 dny

    Science shows that size is not necessary for power. Today's palm-top computers are as powerful or even more powerful as the gigantic first generation computers. Therefore, there seems to be no logical reason to conclude that the cognitive capacity of any pre-human primates is less than that of humans solely on the difference in brain size.

  • @abdullahimusa9761
    @abdullahimusa9761 Před 4 dny

    The joy in the students' faces is conspicous and contagious.

  • @Penndreic
    @Penndreic Před 4 dny

    Not sure why creationists even talk about physics… Just stick to making baseless claims. Even if all of physics was proven wrong today, it wouldn’t mean god exists. That needs to be demonstrated. Just quoting from old books isn’t evidence.

    • @ReasonableFaithOrg
      @ReasonableFaithOrg Před 4 dny

      If you're familiar with Dr. Craig's work, you'll know that he argues that the best conclusions of physics actually support the existence of God. The last thing you said is quite strange. Are you under the impression that Dr. Craig's approach to arguing for the existence of God consists of merely quoting the Bible? - RF Admin

    • @Penndreic
      @Penndreic Před 3 dny

      @@ReasonableFaithOrg Have you noticed how religions have to constantly reinterpret passages in their holy book to conform to the current scientific consensus? Like how Christians insisted the Earth is flat (some still do) until science proved otherwise or how Christians believed that God created two humans in the beginning (some still do) until once again science demonstrated otherwise. I have watched the full debate between Dr Craig and Christopher Hitchens.For one, Dr Craig kept saying that Atheism means "the belief that there is no god" and that Theism is more plausible than Atheism. When Theism is just the belief in a god and atheism would be the opposite aka non-belief in any gods. IE: You tell me, god exists, and I tell you I don't believe you. I am not saying "No, there is no god". I'm just saying I don't believe you until you prove it. In that debate btw, he presented absolutely no good evidence for the existence of god. He himself did not want to say god exist with 100% certainty, he just said it was more likely that he exists that not. Personally, I think that the biblical stories are ridiculous. I mean none of it makes sense. You have an omniscient (knows everything), omnipotent (all powerful), omni-benevolent (all good) God that knew BEFORE he created the universe what each and everyone of us would do, and would still play this silly game of is beyond ridiculous to me. Not only that, he sometimes acts like he didn't know we were going to do certain things, gets mad, try to wipe all but a select few of us to restart things up.... Not only that but he then comes down himself or send his only son who is also him to save us from himself in case we don't believe in his sacrifice. I mean NONE of it tracks logically.

  • @damianGray
    @damianGray Před 5 dny

    I think that WLC made quite a few logical fallacies in his 5 points, and also that Hitchens did a pretty poor job of refuting them. I've always maintained that debates like this one favour people that have more charisma and quick thinking than it does the letting the truth rise to the top so to speak. A much better format which I wish had been done would have been an informal conversation / dialogue between the two.

    • @ReasonableFaithOrg
      @ReasonableFaithOrg Před 4 dny

      What fallacies did Dr. Craig make? - RF Admin

    • @damianGray
      @damianGray Před 2 dny

      ​@@ReasonableFaithOrg 1.) No good argument that atheism is true - Atheists have tried for centuries to disprove the existence of God but no one has come up with a good argument Atheism doesn't make any claims about existence, theism does. Just as Hitchen's said in the video, I don't need to prove that Santa Clause doesn't exist, the onus is on the person who is telling us that Santa Clause exists to provide evidence of his existence, not the rest of the world to disprove it. Atheism doesn't need to prove that it is true because it is the default position, just as asantarism is the default position. When Hitchen's tried to explain that atheism encompasses a wide variety of positions, including anti-theism or strong atheism, which IS a claim that needs just as much proof as theism does, as it requires proof that God doesn't exist, and agnosticism or weak atheism, which is not a claim and requires no proof) WLC made fun of him by referencing it as 'AH-theism' and continued straw-manning with his own definition of atheism. I'd like to point out here too, that the fundamental premise is flawed for both theists and anti-theists. You cannot scientifically prove or disprove the existence of God but that is not an argument for or against his existence. What you can do is argue for the rationality of belief (or not) in said being. ie. I am not a lunatic for believing in God. WLC slips here into a typical motte and bailey. He uses the fact that atheism cannot disprove God's existence as proof that God must exist as his bailey and then when called on it, retreats back to his motte that it is simply the rationality of the believe that he defends.

    • @damianGray
      @damianGray Před 2 dny

      2.) The cosmological argument - Why is there anything rather than nothing - Atheists have typically answered this by saying the universe is eternal - Infinite events prior to now is absurd - Mathematicians know that using infinite in formulas leads to self-contradictions - Cites the big bang as the beginning of the universe "everything from nothing" It would be better here to say that scientists (not atheists) answered this by saying the universe is eternal, but even that would be wrong, because the scientific community was very divided on this point and it has only been fairly recently that there has been evidence of an actual big bang. WLC argues here that the absurdity of infinite as a concept disproves an eternal universe, but then tries to argue for the existence of an eternal God and afterlife. You cannot have it both ways, but even the premise is flawed. Why is infinite time prior to now absurd? The answer is that it's not, it just isn't as intuitive to think along these lines because our brain has difficulty with the concept. This is a limitation of our brain, nothing more. Mathematicians, particularly in the last decade or two have found many useful ways to use infinite that are anything but self-contradictory, so this claim is simply one from ignorance and not in the least correct. Finally here we get to the God of the gaps argument. One cannot rely on pockets of ignorance in scientific knowledge to say "see, this is where God is". Those gaps shrink every day and will one day be closed completely. Here is no exception. This debate was from 15 years ago and our knowledge of the big bang has expanded considerably since then, but even then the scientific consensus would have been "We don't know what happened before the big bang or what existed at that time", not "nothing existed". It's very disingenuous to say "we DO know, it was God". What we do know is that the universe consisted of very tightly condensed energy that started expanding very quickly and that expansion of energy formed the basis of all the matter that we have today. We don't know why it happened, or whether this was the first time it happened, or whether it will be the last time it happens.

    • @damianGray
      @damianGray Před 2 dny

      3.) Teleological argument - Fine tuned constants such as the gravitational constant as well as arbitrary quantities such as the balance of matter and antimatter and the amount of entropy which fall into a very narrow life permitting range. - String theory predicts.... - Could this be due to chance? - Multiverses Firstly, we know that the matter anti-matter balance skewed heavily towards matter, and while we don't know the exact mechanism yet (most likely a particle interaction we are, as of yet, not aware) we do know that they were both equally abundant in the first epoch after the big bang. I'm not sure what he means here by the amount of entropy, but it's fairly straight forward to read the consecutive steps from the big bang to now to see why we have the amount of entropy in the universe that we have, and is why the "heat death" is one of the more popular and plausible outcomes of the universe. Everything trends towards entropy over time, and there are very good reasons for this. However to the meat of this argument, the irony is that WLC would not be around to state one way or another if the constants he speaks about were different. He uses survivorship bias to prove that God must have created the universe, but we don't know if the universe is cyclical, or if it is the only one, and whether or not those constants are the same for every universe or not. There's some compelling arguments stating that gravity did not always have the same constant after the big bang that it does now for example. The simple fact is that we do not know, which again goes back to the God of the gaps. Using science to prove the existence of a being that cannot be proved using science is a futile effort. String theory is popular and is useful for some of its mathematical concepts, but there has not been anything that string theory predicts that matches reality. It has been used to describe what we see now based on what we understand about reality, but still has many fundamental issues and holes that have not (despite many years of dedicated efforts) been able to be closed. WLC decries that these constants couldn't possibly be the way they are due to chance because of the odds, which is exactly the same argument that a creationist will use to decry evolution (which I note that WLC does not speak against). In an infinite reality, it doesn't really matter what the odds of anything are, if it is even remotely possible, it will eventually happen. WLC is using an argument from incredulity here. It is *possible* that it is not due to chance, but he has certainly not presented any great argument to that effect. On the topic of multiverses, WLC again hides behind an argument of incredulity. He in no way proves or disproves that a MV could exist, but still uses it as proof that the constants couldn't be the way they are due to chance. There has been a resurgence in popularity about multiverse theory as attempts to explain quantum effects and describe how quantum wave functions collapse. Whether this line of reasoning ends up bearing fruit or not is irrelevant, the simple fact here is that it is not as absurd as WLF makes it out to be and many serious scientific minds take it seriously enough. Again, highlighting the dangers of trying to use scientific knowledge (or the lack thereof) to prove the existence of God. WLF jumps from "it is plausible" to "it is the best explanation", but it is also plausible by chance, so you cannot logically make that step.

    • @damianGray
      @damianGray Před 2 dny

      4.) The moral augment - If God does not exist, then objective morals do not exist. - Many atheists and theists agree that if God does not exist then morals are not objective I would go further and say that ALL atheists and theists should agree that without the existence of God, there can be no objective morality, as that is the logical conclusion. As humans we have an innate drive for life and a dislike of pain and misery. These are evolutionary imperatives, but they are not value judgements. There is nothing in the universe that says that life is objectively better than nonexistence, or that pain is worse than pleasure. That one nerve ending providing this drug to our brain is better than another nerve ending providing that drug to our brain. Therefore without some objective omniscient arbiter, there can be no objective moral values. What WLC does not do here is argue why such objective truths are necessary. Only asserts that they are. WLC falls back onto the emotive argument that a lack of objective morality does nothing to prove that rape is "really wrong". He then fallaciously claims that from the "atheistic view" there's nothing really "wrong" with raping someone. I take issue with this first of all, because what WLC is really saying here or at least the insinuation is is that without objective morals, atheists are really in favour of rape because there is nothing to tell them that it is bad. However this is just completely false. As he himself has already gone over, there is still our strong biological drives for life, which includes empathy, and is more than enough to inform us that rape is wrong. Secondly, WLC himself falls back on these same biological drives "deep down everyone knows that rape is wrong". This doesn't prove that objective values exist, this is another assertion. That is the equivalent of saying that deep down a baby knowing that milk comes from a mother's breast is an objective truth and not simply a biological instinct that has evolved to be there. There's no proof, no argument, and a fallback on emotion. "We have strong feelings therefore X is bad is a universal truth". It's not universal, it's simply an experiencial truth.

  • @rolandjosef7961
    @rolandjosef7961 Před 5 dny

    Isaiah 44:6 NIV "This is what the LORD says-Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God. Revelation 1:8 NIV "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 22:12-13 NIV "Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. [13] I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

  • @Jesusjohn644
    @Jesusjohn644 Před 5 dny

    I want one of these shirts :(

  • @Marcelloheerlijn
    @Marcelloheerlijn Před 5 dny

    Dear Dr. Craig, I wanted to briefly discuss why it cannot be rationally defended that there will be a global flood? Can the resurrection of Christ be understood? His brain was already completely destroyed. It is impossible that that brain could be used again. In addition to being 100 percent God, Jesus was also a man who was burdened to bear our sins and that is also stated in Isaiah. He has been sick and one who is only God does not hunger or become sick. Because if he did not have a real human body then he would never be tired because the laws of our nature do not apply to Him, you will see that after the resurrection. His body could pass right through matter with its matter. There you see that God does not have to take anything into account after His resurrection. After His resurrection He had a glorified body, but before that He was truly the Man of sorrows. He was wounded and tormented and bruised for our transgressions, says Isaiah. But after His resurrection, Christ can fly and does not need oxygen as He flies up into His world. This cannot be rationally defended as to how it is possible that Christ rose from the dead. And yet we believe it happened. But just because we know it happened doesn't say anything about whether we understand it. With God there is no time and He does not have to take it into account. There is a certain event in time that will influence eternity that cannot actually be explained. Because has the judgment day already happened for God or is it in the future for God? But the future is a part of time and can only exist if there was a plan. And a plan starts somewhere and ends and yet it was God's plan that started somewhere. And time already came into existence in eternity and By God's plan time was already there before time existed. Time is also the beginning of no beginning. Can this be substantiated by our reason or should we believe that God is so much more than we can think and that man's reason is not something you should rest on? Salemo also says that we should trust God and not our reason . Can you convince me that faith is also about trusting what God does even though we don't understand it and it doesn't make sense to our minds?

  • @delbert372
    @delbert372 Před 5 dny

    Thank you Dr. Craig for your ministry and for all of your hard work over the years✝️

  • @uddin2166
    @uddin2166 Před 6 dny

    17:20 Christian history begs to differ, where was the love when the Jews and Muslims in Spain where prosecuted or the butchering and slaughter of 6 million Jews became remember nazism was a Christian movement, the nazis had iron cross

  • @TheMATHEHOUSE
    @TheMATHEHOUSE Před 6 dny

    i´m sick to my stomach, someone doing it and the wolrd condemning it feels very diferent to someone doing it and the wolrd condoning

  • @chrisforeman9949
    @chrisforeman9949 Před 6 dny

    Perhaps this is an OT proof text of conservation from Job 34: “If it were his intention and he withdrew his spirit and breath, all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.” Job‬ ‭34‬:‭14‬-‭15‬

  • @137chuckm
    @137chuckm Před 7 dny

    I have tried to ask Dr. Craig this question a few times both online and through a Reasonable Faith representative. The question is this... Why does early Genesis must and have to be about material physical creation? No one has ever proven this throughout history. Isn't it an assumption in which many people agree? But just because many people agree doesn't mean that it's true. Why can't it be about higher, realer, and better things and not material physical creation? After all does God care about rocks and planets and bugs? Or does he care about us!

    • @ReasonableFaithOrg
      @ReasonableFaithOrg Před 7 dny

      Dr. Craig's view is that Genesis 1:1 is about all creation whatsoever. The phrase "the heavens and the earth" is a totalizing expression which includes all things which were created, which would, according to Christianity, include angels. So, it's not limited to material physical creation. Rather, it encompasses everything which is created, material and immaterial. - RF Admin

  • @petercherry2285
    @petercherry2285 Před 7 dny

    Where can I find the transcript to this video please?

  • @freightshayker
    @freightshayker Před 7 dny

    binitarian arguing against binitarian ... and you wonder why so many think Christians are a friggin joke

  • @matthewm7590
    @matthewm7590 Před 7 dny

    Swear I’ve seen this before. Even the same questions and responses at the end. But it says it was streamed today?

    • @ReasonableFaithOrg
      @ReasonableFaithOrg Před 7 dny

      Yes, this and subsequent Defenders livestreams are replays of past classes. Dr. Craig is no longer creating new Defenders classes. - RF Admin

  • @obcane3072
    @obcane3072 Před 7 dny

    This is the problem when theology dictates translation instead of the other way around. In the Greek manuscript of 2 Thessalonians 2:3, the word used is "ἀποστασία" (apostasia). This term is typically translated as "apostasy," "rebellion," or "falling away." Jerome translated this Greek word into Latin as "discessio" in his Vulgate translation. The Latin term "discessio" carries meanings similar to "departure" or "separation," which aligns with the concept of a falling away or rebellion. Proponents of the Rapture argue that "ἀποστασία" in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 should be understood literally as a departure, indicating the physical removal of the church from the earth. They also point out that the context of 2 Thessalonians 2 discusses events surrounding the Day of the Lord, suggesting that the "departure" refers to the Rapture occurring before the revelation of the "man of lawlessness" (often interpreted as the Antichrist). Jerome also translated the Greek word "ἁρπάζω" (harpazo) to the Latin word "rapiemur" in his Vulgate translation. This occurs in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, where the passage describes believers being "caught up" to meet the Lord in the air. The verse in Latin reads: "deinde nos qui vivimus qui relinquimur simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera et sic semper cum Domino erimus" This can be translated to: "**Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord**." The term "rapiemur" is the root from which the English word "rapture" is derived. Therefore, Jerome's translation effectively laid the groundwork for the term "rapture" as it is used in eschatological discussions today. Paul also states that he was given secret revelation not known by previous propehts or apsotles and directly given to him by thebAscended Lord: Ephesians 3:3-6b Colossians 1:25-27; Romans 16:25-26. Paul was teaching a bre creation, neifhter Jew or Greek, but the body of Christ. Using the gospels to interpret Paul is bad hermeneutics as they have two different audiences. Paul taught the body of Christ, and Jesus taught Jewish theology, prophesy, and eschatology.

  • @obcane3072
    @obcane3072 Před 7 dny

    Jesus came for the Jews as the fulfillment of the prophets. He came to establish the establish the kingdom the would then allow the gentiles to be saved (Psalm 2, Exodus 19:6, ISaiah 42:6, Isaiah 49:6). The second coming of the Lord was the the followers of the Way. Paul taught the mysteries, secrets, that were kept from prophesy to Israel. Paul is telling the Body of Christ, this saved under the Goodison of grace, that they would not be facing the tribulation as OT prophecy did not apply to the body of Christ. Thessalonians is a book of hope to the gentiles behind saved while the Judaizers were telling them that they were in the tribulation or that they too would experience it.