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Building Bridges to Muslims

Could the Members of the Trinity have Switched Places?

Dear Dr Craig, You have argued, plausibly I think, that there is no biblical evidence for the belief that the Son is eternally begotten from The Father. Your view, although rejected by the mainstream Christianity, seems to align better with the notion that the...

character and nature of god, incarnation, perfect being theology, personhood, trinity

Atonement and Just Desert

Hello Dr. Craig, and team. I appreciate your work very much. In the last few weeks, you have replied to several questions about Annihilation and Atonement (For instance, questions #999 and #1006). In your response, you argue that it is difficult to reconcile a...

annihilationism, divine justice, satisfaction of divine justice, substitutionary atonement

Scholarship and the Resurrection of Jesus

Frank Turek and the Atheist Student: Why Didn't God Make Us Perfect?

God and the Moment of Creation

I’m an undergraduate philosophy student, and I have a question about your theory that God is in time with creation and timeless sans creation. While this view seems to be internally coherent, I’m struggling to identify a strong motivation to accept this po...

agent causation, creation, infinite temporal regress, time, relation to god, timelessness

September 16 2026

Legal Pardon, Tensed Time, and the Expiation of Guilt

LEGAL PARDON, TENSED TIME, AND THE EXPIATION OF GUILT In this paper I wish to explore the relation between legal pardon, tensed time, and the expiation of guilt. The distinction between personal forgiveness and legal pardon is well-known and widely recognized ...

Time, Tense, and Eternity

TIME, TENSE, AND ETERNITY “God,” declares the prophet Isaiah, “is the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity” (Is. 57.15). But being a prophet and not a philosophical theologian, Isaiah did not pause to reflect upon the nature of divine eternity. Min...

Review: A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos by Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes

Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 078-1-107-15661-6. Authored by a senior and a junior astrophysicist at the University of Sydney, this book is an open-en...