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Proof of Divine Simplicity?
Dear Dr. Craig, Concerning your take on God's existence and analogy in Question 276, the Thomistic philosopher and blogger Alfredo Watkins has responded to you here: http://analyticscholastic.blogspot.com/2012/07/william-lane-craig-on-god-and-analogy.html...
Is Having Properties a Criterion for Existence?
Dear Dr. Craig, In your most recent post, you wrote, "I'm inclined to say that ... properties don't really exist." However, if the having of properties is a necessary criteria for being, then it follows that: 1. If something exists, it has one or m...
abstract objects, divine attributes, existence of god, metaphysics, nature of existence, nature of god
Is God a Being in the Same Sense that We Are?
Do you accept the view traditionally ascribed to Duns Scotus: namely, the univocity of being (pertaining to both God and creatures)? It seems like your interactions with atheists presuppose the ability to reason on a sort of neutral plane of, say, "truth" or "...
divine attributes, existence of god, metaphysics, nature of god, philosophy of religion
Is There No Reality?
Hello Dr. Craig I'm always contesting some affirmatives of my professors in college and a lot of your materials have been helping me. But, some days ago, a professor of mine said that there is no reality. I don't know why, but I didn't like this ...
Existence of God (part 25)
The Ontological Argument.
Existence of God (part 6)
The Kalam Cosmological Argument.
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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
Discord among the Trinitarian Persons Once More
Dr. Craig, I had a question about the Persons of the Trinity and the idea of possible worlds. I was recently reading your "Attributes of God" series to my daughter. In "God is Three Persons," Papa answers the objection, "But then what if [all the persons] dis...
character and nature of god, divine attributes, divine goodness, metaphysics, trinity
"I am Who I Am"
I have heard some assert that "I AM" indicates an eternal now perspective for God. I don't think that an eternal now or other atemporal understandings make logical sense nor is generally required by biblical teachings. How do you understand the I AM name f...
character and nature of god, metaphysics, necessary being, perfect being theology, timelessness
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
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