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Necessity and the Argument from Contingency
Dear Dr. Craig, First, I just want to say thank you very much for all of the work you are doing. It has been a great help to me in my life as a Christian and God has truly used you to strengthen my faith. We actually met recently at your Defenders Class when ...
contingency argument, divine aseity, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, modality
The Applicability of Mathematics
Dear Dr Craig Firstly can I thank you for all your work. My faith in Christ has been enormously strengthened through studying your work in apologetics in particular and I have grown in confidence in my Christian witness. My question relates to numbers and ma...
abstract objects, anti-realism, divine aseity, divine attributes, mathematics
Biblical Basis of God’s Unique Aseity
Dear Dr. Craig, I have a question regarding your podcast entitled "Peter van Inwagen and Uncreated Beings". In this podcast you argued that van Inwagen's exegesis of the Nicene creed was un-justified. (Note: van Inwagen had argued that the implicit domai...
christology, divine aseity, divine logos, philosophical theology
Doctrine of God (part 3)
[procedure for looking at God's attributes], I. B. 2. a. (2) (c) Challenge of Platonism.
Doctrine of God (part 2)
I. B. 2. Self-Existence a. Analysis (1) Scriptural Data . . . I. B. 2. a. (2) Systematic Summary (b) Solution to Two Problems.
Aseity, Fictionalism, and Moral Values
Lately, I have been reading some of your work on God's aseity, and the more I read about the topic and related topics, the more I am persuaded to be a fictionalist. However, my two questions for you are: 1. What are morals according to the fictionalist? C...
divine aseity, fictionalism, objective moral values and duties, platonism
Who Designed the Designer?
William Lane Craig responds to Richard Dawkins' "central" argument, and the problem of "who designed the designer". But I think that the most patently obvious falsehood of the six is number 3. 3 says, “The temptation to attribute the appearance of ...
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Is “Existence”, when Predicated of God, Univocal?
Professor William Lane Craig, I’m writing because I increasingly think that arguing for “the existence of God” (including via cosmological routes) is, in many cases, an uninteresting project for a deeper reason: the question is often a pseud...
arguments against the existence of god, concept of god, divine aseity, existence of god, nature of existence, necessary v. contingent existence
Logic and God
Dear Professor Craig, I recently watched your immensely interesting interview, "God and Abstract Objects", on Closer to Truth. As I understand it, after 13 years of study, you eventually came to an anti-realist stance on abstract objects, along the lines of J...
abstract objects, divine aseity, laws of logic, ontology, truth
Incorporeality and Simplicity
I have a question about divine simplicity and how it relates to angels or demons. As humans we are not “simple” because we are composite creatures made of of body and soul (and spirit, if you prefer) and our bodies can be subdivided into organs, ce...
divine aseity, divine essence, divine simplicity, platonism, simplicity
Divine Simplicity
Dear Dr Craig, You recently answered my question about religious language in the Reasonable Faith podcast (March 22, 2021) and I wanted to try to reformulate my question in a more understandable way. I admit that my formulation of the question was very choppy...
anti-realism, aquinas, thomas, character and nature of god, divine aseity, divine essence, divine simplicity
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