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God as the Ground of Morality
Hello Dr Craig, thank you for all the work that you do! It has benefited me tremendously over the years. I need some clarifications regarding the Euthyphro dilemma. On what basis can God's nature be made the grounding for objective morality? I think the an...
abstract objects, arguments for the existence of god, character and nature of god, divine attributes, euthyphro dilemma, moral argument
Must God Be Good?
Hello Dr. Craig - please help me to understand, why must God be good? You have stated that goodness is fundamental to our concept of God, but why? What if our concept or definition of God is wrong? Why is it necessary that God be a being worthy of worship? Is ...
concept of god, divine attributes, divine goodness, ontological argument, worship
The Ontological Argument and Quasi-Maximal Greatness
Hello Dr. Craig! I'm Sanket from the state Maharashtra of India. I was born in a Hindu family. When I was 19 I started wondering about the hard questions about life like "Does God exist? " or "if God exist, why there is so much suffering? "and so on. Firs...
alvin plantinga, argument, god, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience
Where Are All the Christian Philosophers?
Hello Dr. Craig, thank you for your work. On numerous occasions you've argued that we are currently experiencing a renaissance in fields like Philosophy with respect to the intellectual credibility of belief in God and Christianity in particular. You'v...
arguments for the existence of god, christian philosophy, fine tuning argument, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, moral argument
The Ontological Argument Once More
Hello Dr. Craig, my question is in regards to the Ontological Argument. If the proposition there is no maximally excellent being is a non-modal sentence, then wouldn’t it follow that maximal greatness can’t possibly be exemplified? Patrick
maximal greatness, modal operator, modal sentence, modality, non-modal sentence, ontological argument
Could God Be Amoral?
Dear Dr. Craig I've recently had my worldview shattered and pretty much torn apart by the natural arguments for the existence of God, the Kalam Cosmological argument, the Teleological argument, the Ontological argument, and a few others which you present ...
divine goodness, moral argument, moral perfection, ontological argument
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Doubts about the Incarnation
Greetings Dr. Craig, On August 2, 2025, having gone through emotional turmoil similar to yours, I became a theist, after watching your multi-video lecture on the ontological argument on yours Defenders podcast, even though I had been a devo...
divine nature, doubt, incarnation, ontological argument, perfect being theology, two natures of christ
Maximal Greatness and Being Itself Subsisting
Dr. Craig, are the ideas of God being existence itself and God as a maximally great being coherent with one another? In my view, defining God as a maximally great being seems to place Him within a category that could limit His existence, since it attributes c...
anselm, aquinas, thomas, maximal greatness, ontological argument, perfect being theology, self-referentially incoherent
M. Huemer’s Criticism of Divine Command Theory
Please respond to Michael Huemer's criticism of your divine command theory. (https://fakenous.substack.com/p/groundless-morals) Graham
divine command theory, ethics, maximal greatness, moral duties, moral obligations, objective moral values and duties
Earnest Questions from the Tien Shan Mountains
Dear Professor Craig, My name is Abdulla [surname redacted]. I am a student from Kyrgyzstan whose nights have been consumed for the past three years by your works — from The Tensed Theory of Time to your debate with Oppy in god and time. Today, I ...
abstract objects, divine hiddenness, evil, problem of, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, maximal greatness
A New Modal Argument from Contingency
Hello Dr. Craig! Recently, Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen have developed a fascinating, cutting-edge argument called the Modal Argument from Beginnings, or MAB. It seeks to reach the same conclusion of the classic argument from contingency you defend usi...
arguments for the existence of god, causation, leibnizian cosmological argument, modal argument from beginnings, ontological argument