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Is Christianity too Harsh?
Hello Dr. Craig, It’s an honor and privilege to write you, you are one of my favorite scholars, debater, and lecturer. I am an agnostic, but to clarify I believe in an all knowing and all powerful god, but I am not sure what religion has the best descri...
agnosticism, christian particularism, divine foreknowledge, divine love, divine omniscience, divine providence
Middle Knowledge and Original Sin
Dear Dr Craig, Thank you, first of all, for this wonderful treasure trove of Christian philosophy that you have compiled here on your website. Having recently rediscovered my faith after sixteen years of atheism, your articles and videos have been immensely h...
divine foreknowledge, divine omniscience, free will, god, middle knowledge, molinism
Praying Retroactively
Dr. Craig, thank you so much for all you do. In a recent Defenders class, you discussed the concept of special providence. I was hoping that, during the Q&A session, my question would be raised by another student, but it was not. I believe that God orders ...
divine foreknowledge, divine providence, middle knowledge, prayer, salvation
Does God Cause People to Do Evil?
Dr. Craig, thank you for all that you do to help us understand the God of the Bible in face of the difficult issues we all face. As a follower of Christ, I am troubled by some passages in Scripture which seem to indicate that God not only allows evil (the trea...
divine foreknowledge, divine providence, foreknowledge, middle knowledge, molinism, problem of evil
How Does God Foreknow Free Choices?
Greetings, I have been listening to and reading a lot of your material over the last year, and have been learning a lot - not least from the Defenders podcast. I've been searching in your material for the answer to a specific question, but haven't fou...
determinism, divine foreknowledge, divine providence, divine sovereignty, free will, middle knowledge
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The Chosen and Theological Fatalism
Hello Dr. Craig, My question is about the concept of Divine Foreknowledge and how that is applied to fulfillment of prophecy. For Context: You may be aware that there is a clip of the Chosen circulating Social Media where Jesus appeals to Judas to make a cho...
counterfactuals, divine foreknowledge, divine sovereignty, free will, logical fallacy, middle knowledge
Quantum Physics and Divine Foreknowledge
I’m studying physics at college in Boston. I find the intersection of cosmology with physics and philosophy quite interesting. Question: In quantum physics, positional uncertainty and long distance particle entanglement makes precise foreknowledge probab...
divine foreknowledge, knowledge, maximal greatness, middle knowledge, omniscience, perfect being theology
Divine Foreknowledge and the Paradoxes of Time Travel
I have a question on whether the paradoxes of time travel would apply to Theism or not. Suppose that person x prays to God to kill his Grandfather before his father was born, and Suppose that because God knew the future. Suppose God heard him and listened to t...
divine foreknowledge, philosophy of time, prayer, time, relation to god
Sending Someone to Hell by Taking His Life
How can you address the sovereignty of God with someone who has taken a life (either purposeful or accidental) and is struggling with the concept that the person they killed may have come to a saving relationship with Christ if they had not prematurely ended t...
“I Ain’t Dead Yet!”
This is not a question about predestination or fatalism. It’s about how God experiences relationship to human souls posthumously. Given human free will, does God’s perspective of individual human destiny transition from foreknowledge to a sort of a...
divine foreknowledge, experience as source of knowledge, omniscience, time, relation to god