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How is God the Creator? – Robert Lawrence Kuhn (part 2)

Robert Lawrence Kuhn (host of "Closer to Truth") asks William Lane Craig on the nature of God as creator of creation. Question(s) explored: What's God's providence with respect to the created world? What is the difference between ordinary and extraordi...

creation, divine creation, philosophy

How is God the Creator?

Robert Lawrence Kuhn (host of "Closer to Truth") asks William Lane Craig on the nature of God as creator of creation. Question(s) explored: What is creation witih respect to God? How does God's providence work into creation? What is the difference between ...

creation, divine creation, philosophy

Did God Create From Nothing?

Robert Lawrence Kuhn (host of PBS' "Closer to Truth") asks William Lane Craig how God created from nothing. Questions explored: What is meant by God creating from nothing? What did Aristotle mean by efficient causes and material causes? What is metaphysica...

beginning of the universe, divine creation, nothing

God, Time, and Creation

Dr. Craig, you seem to believe God exists outside of time when there is no universe [God (a)] and inside of time when there is a universe [God (b)]. My question: Which of the two created the universe? God (a) cannot create the universe because a timeless being...

cosmology, divine creation, philosophy of time, theories of time, time

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Infinitely Old Time

Hello Dr. Craig, I’m a big fan of your work, and I have argued with the Kalam for a while now, but I’ve recently started to question the argument, and whether time might actually be infinitely old, because of this line of reasoning: 1. Any decre...

divine creation, eternity, kalam cosmological argument, time, time, relation to god, timelessness

How Can an Immaterial God Act in the Physical World?

If God is an unembodied spirit how can He cause things in the physical/material world?  How does something that is not physical interact with the physical? Sincerely, Abbie

agent causation, divine creation, evolutionary argument against naturalism, materialism, philosophical materialism, philosophy of mind

Wielenberg on God and Time

Hello, Dr. Craig. I've been trying to learn about the Kalam and what its defenders and opposers have to say. Obviously, I started reading your work for a defense of the Kalam. But recently Dr. Erik Wielenberg, who you have debated before, published an arti...

cosmology, creation ex nihilo, divine creation, erik wielenberg, kalam cosmological argument, law of noncontradiction

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