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Questions from a Sceptical Seeker

Dear Dr. Craig, Listening to your conversation with Alex O’Connor was really eye-opening for me. In it, Alex raised many of the objections to the Kalam Cosmological Argument which I had previously seen as defeating, only to have you classily deconstruct...

arguments for the existence of god, causation, divine eternity, inference, kalam cosmological argument, logical necessity

God’s Self-Existence Concocted?

Dr Craig. Thank you for your series on Defending Your Faith, which I have been viewing. During a recent lecture on the Doctrine of God, you spoke about aseity. I have tried to find evidence of this concept prior to the scientific realisation that the universe ...

causation, creation, divine eternity, divine timelessness, eternity, simultaneity

What Is God’s Purpose in Life?

Hi Dr. Craig, I appreciate your work for the kingdom of Christ. You have been of great influence in my life as a Christian. I recently came across this piece by an unknown skeptic that was reviewing a book by Stewart Goetz ( The Purpose Of Life: A Theistic P...

divine aseity, divine eternity, summum bonum, thomas aquinas

Scriptural Teaching on God and Time

Dear Dr. Craig, I have some questions on the issue of eternity and God. I understand that you hold to the view of God as timeless "before" creation and in time ever since. 1. Is there any Scriptural reason to suppose that God was timeless before creation (or...

divine eternity, eternity, god and time, gods relation to time, time, timelessness

Doctrine of God (Part 7): Practical Application of God's Eternity

divine eternity, god and time, time

Doctrine of God (Part 5): God's Eternity

divine aseity, divine eternity, platonism

Theological Arguments in Support of an Infinite Past

Hello Dr. Craig, I hope you are fine. I have theological objections to your proposition that an infinite regression of events into the past is impossible. I adhere to a particular Islamic denomination and my denomination doesn't accept the view that it&...

al-ghazali, creation, divine creation, divine eternity, infinite temporal regress, islam

God and Time

Dear Dr. Craig, I'm a big fan of your work and I've listened to almost all you have available on the internet. My question has to do with a contradiction that I think I see in some of your views concerning issues of simultaneous causation and the pos...

creation, divine creation, divine eternity, eternity, relation to god, time

The Metric of Time

Dear Dr. Craig, My question is quite short. It's on the subject of time. I thought I would ask you, because it's something I've been thinking about, and you seem to know a thing or two about this area (pardon the understatement). We measure time t...

divine eternity, infinite temporal regress, kalam cosmological argument, philosophy of time, time

Doctrine of God (part 7)

I. B. 3. b. Application.

divine eternity, god and time, god's relationship to time