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God, Time, and Creation

There have been a lot of raised eyebrows about your view on God and time. . . . This is an objection that people like Paul Helm have raised. It goes a little something like this. What exactly is the relationship between God’s timeless phase and God&rsquo...

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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...

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Creation and Simultaneous Causation

Bonjour Dr. Craig, Thank you for your work and everything that you do for the Christian faith. My question is in regards to atemporal causation. Many skeptics will assert that God could not have created the universe because there was no time in which he could ...

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On the Interview with Sir Roger Penrose

Dear Dr. Craig, I listened to your interaction with Sir Roger Penrose on Unbelievable?, and I was interested in your claim that absolute metaphysical time exists. I have a concern about the coherence of metaphysical time. If metaphysical time exists, then it ...

a-theory of time, b-theory of time, god's relationship to time, theories of time, time, timelessness

How to Answer Objections: A Case in Point

Dr. Craig, I have been deeply troubled by a possible objection to the Kalam Cosmological argument which I believe is one of the strongest arguments for theism. In what sense can God be thought to exist as a timeless entity? Doesn't the notion of existence...

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Scriptural Teaching on God and Time

Dear Dr. Craig, I have some questions on the issue of eternity and God. I understand that you hold to the view of God as timeless "before" creation and in time ever since. 1. Is there any Scriptural reason to suppose that God was timeless before creation (or...

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Questions on Time and Scary Monsters

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Can an Atemporal Being Be Personal?

Dear Dr. Craig I am a christian student from norway. During a debate about if god exists or not (on a facebook group called political youth) I defended his existence to the best of my ability, using the kalam cosmological argument. i had seen on your youtube...

divine personhood, divine timelessness, kalam cosmological argument, personhood, time, timelessness

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

Did God Create Time?

Robert Lawrence Kuhn (host of PBS' "Closer to Truth") interviews William Lane Craig on time in relation to God. Questions explored: How do you deal with God and time? What is the tensed (aka A-Theory or dynamic theory) and tenseless (aka B-Theory or static...

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