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Personal God Video

Dr. William Lane Craig outlines two arguments for why the cause of the universe is a personal God, rather than an impersonal set of necessary and sufficient conditions. He then goes on to explain how his atheist opponent, Prof Lewis Wolpert, accidentally argue...

divine personhood, divine-human relationship, existence of god

Does Infinite Personhood Imply Pantheism?

Dear Dr. Craig, My name is Nathan, I am 17 and live in Birmingham, United Kingdom. After reading Spinoza's Ethics, I am now in a philosophical conflict between what seems to be rational in pantheism and my religious views of Calvinism. I was wondering if ...

benedict spinoza, divine attributes, divine personhood, pantheism

Christianity Today Article and God's Personhood

Dear Dr. Craig, I just read your article in Christianity Today about the arguments for the existence of God, but one question above all stands out to me as unanswered: why must there be a PERSONAL God, and what do you mean by 'personal'...

abstract objects, arguments for the existence of god, divine personhood, moral duties, moral values, objective moral values and duties

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Eternal Past Sonship?

Dr. Craig, Many Evangelicals seem to believe that to deny Jesus as being past-eternally the Son, is to somehow deny his pre-existence as a person of the Trinity. Yet, I know of no clear biblical or philosophical support for the pre-human person of the trinity...

begotten, divine logos, divine personhood, divinity of jesus, incarnation, trinity

Persons, Souls, and the Incarnation

Dr. Craig, First, let me express my deep admiration for your extensive contributions to Christian apologetics and philosophy. Your work has been a tremendous resource for those seeking to defend and understand the faith. However, I’m grappling with a te...

divine nature, divine personhood, human nature, incarnation, soul, two natures of christ

Cerberus and the Trinity

I once heard you use "Cerberus" when discussing the trinity: Did you know John Calvin rebuked Servetus for using "Cerberus" in reference to the trinity?  I was translating this book by John Calvin: "DEFENSIO ORTHODOXAE fidei de ſacra Trinitate" Fr...

calvin, john, character and nature of god, divine personhood, trinity

Leftow’s “Time-Traveling Trinity”

Hello Dr. Craig, I was recently reading Brian Leftow’s article in Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity, (for which you also submitted a fantastic work) and was curious if you think that his “time travel analogy” for the Trinit...

divine personhood, impossible, leftow, brian, metaphysics, time, relation to god, trinity

Maximal Greatness and the Number of Divine Persons

Dr. Craig, In 'Trinity Monotheism Once More: A Response to Daniel Howard-Snyder," you write, "If God were a soul endowed with a single set of rational faculties, then He could do all these things. By being a more richly endowed soul, is God thereby someho...

concept of god, divine love, divine personhood, maximal greatness, moral perfection, trinity