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Does God Specially Create Every Human being?
Dr. Craig, I’m curious if we sometimes press this concept too hard: ‘God actively creates every human being’. So many of the intellectual struggles with God’s sovereignty and human free will (or lack of free will) seem to be bas...
children, creation, dualism, hasker, william, soul, swinburne, richard
Whence Our Inclination to Sin?
Hi Dr. Craig, I agree with your view of original sin, but am having trouble understanding where the inner inclination to sin originated. The doctrine of original sin teaches the origin of the inclination is a corruption resulting from the fall. Is it that the ...
Reading the Mind off the Brain
Hello Dr. Craig, I'm a recent viewer of your work who's been a long time skeptic and nonbeliever since I was a teenage kid (at 28 I suppose I'm only slightly less of a kid). I recently began reading a lot about consciousness and the soul, my posit...
dualism, materialism, mind-brain relationship, philosophy of mind, self-consciousness, soul
Body/Soul Dualism and Intrinsic Change
Dear Professor Craig, my name is Lucas, I'm sixteen years old and I'm from Brazil. Studying the field of philosophy of mind, I have come to a rather intelligent and yet perhaps problematic questioning of substance dualism. My question is: obviously I&#...
anthropological dualism, materialism, philosophy of mind, soul
Why Does My Soul Act on My Particular Body?
Big fan of your work Dr. Craig. My question is about what specifically ties the soul to the physical mind of a person. You’ve spoken in the past about how to be human is to be a body/soul composite, the spirit and the physical mechanisms of t...
agent causation, anthropological dualism, dualism, kim, jaegwon, mind-brain relationship, philosophy of mind
The Soul of Christ
I have a question about the relationship between your trinity model and your incarnation model. 1- The soul of the Son is the soul of the Holy Spirit and the Father. 2- The soul of the Son is human. 3- Therefore, the soul of the Father and the Holy Spirit is ...
character and nature of god, divinity of jesus, neo-apollinarian christology, soul, trinity
The Multiverse and Counterparts of Me
The concept of the multiverse is something that is a familiar part of our culture now. This year has seen two very popular movies (Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; Everything Everywhere All at Once) gross big box office and receive favorable vie...
atheism, impossible, many worlds hypothesis, metaphysics, modalism, philosophical foundations for a christian worldview
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
Why Do Determinists Say the Self is an Illusion?
Hello, Why do determinists often make the argument that consciousness is an illusion? Consciousness is an awareness of one’s surroundings and own being (I am). Even if free will is an illusion I see no reason why consciousness is similarly a...
brain, materialism, mind, philosophical materialism, physicalism, self-consciousness
I’m a Soul Man
Dr Craig, I have found your work on the historical Adam to be very interesting and I appreciate that you have taken the time to consider the topic. I have come to wonder however, if we as Christians have become too fixated on fitting Adam into a biological tim...
evolution, mind-brain relationship, neanderthal, personhood, rationality, soul
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Bestiality Among Adam and Eve’s Immediate Descendants
Dr. Craig, I recently finished In Quest of the Historical Adam and found the argument for locating Adam and Eve within Homo heidelbergensis both fascinating and persuasive. However, I still have one unresolved question regarding the interbreeding issue. In Cha...
adam and eve, image of god, moral evil, objective moral values and duties, soul, speculation
Life in the Intermediate State
Hello Dr. Craig and the Reasonable Faith Team, Thank you for your relentless service to the Kingdom! I have been trying to conceptually grasp the nature of an intermediate, immaterial existence. I find myself sharing the Apostle Paul’s apparent relucta...
afterlife, philosophy of mind, price, henry h., soul, speculation
Picturing Jesus
Dear Dr. Craig, I realize this question differs somewhat from the kinds of philosophical or theological issues you are most often asked to address, but it is one I have been reflecting on for quite some time and would value your perspective on. You may be fa...
The Soul of the Incarnate Christ and the Trinity
Hello Dr. Craig. In your 2024 EPS paper, Anthropological and Christological Compositionalism, you argue that a person is identical to his soul. You've also argued for the Trinity as one soul with three rational faculties. Does this create some tension for ...
God and the Soul
You have described God as immaterial, spaceless, an infinite mind. It seems the embodied human soul/mind is immaterial but not spaceless or infinite. How can this be? If the soul/mind leaves the body at death, does it become a spaceless, infinite mind? Thanks....
character and nature of god, infinity, maximal greatness, soul, spaceless, transcendence of god