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Dear Dr Craig,

I want to say a big thank you for saving me from a genuine crisis of faith. I have recently been engaging with your work on God's aseity and abstract objects and it has provided a plausible and coherent understanding of both the God of the Bible and the case for anti-realism.

I was taught by Thomists in my undergraduate degree (in theology) and then supervised by a Thomist at Masters level (in philosophy) defending divine simplicity. It wasn't until a few months after writing my dissertation that I realised that there really is no viable answer to the objection of modal collapse (hence why so many defenders of it end up playing the mystery card) without it leading to necessitarianism and/or some sort of emanationism.

The problem is that I had come to believe that without simplicity you also lose aseity and thus any real reason to believe in God. There are some theologians who say outright that without simplicity you get atheism. Which led me to question the coherency of God altogether. Yet you've shown, convincingly, that God can be 'the ultimate sole reality' without requiring simplicity.

I'm sure you're aware of the Thomist revival that's currently taking place in evangelical circles, and I'm quite concerned that others may face the same crisis of faith that I have suffered if they are told they must accept what seem to be utterly incoherent doctrines. I also see some theologians toying with philosophy and saying some very unwise things (especially those identifying as Christian Platonists).

So I do want to stress my thanks to you and your work. I'm looking forward to the eventual completion of your systematic philosophical theology.

Kind regards,

-Phil

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Hi, dr. Craig! Just wanted to share with you my experience with my 5 year old son. Just before bedtime he told me: Dad, do you know the universe is getting bigger with every minute? I told him that I do and asked what would happen if we turn back the time and he said: then, the Universe would get smaller and smaller. But what if we go back way farther - then we agreed that the Universe would not exist.

I told him that whatever begins to exist has a cause and I made some noise that wasn’t before. The reason the sound exists now is because I hit the bed to generate it. And I asked him: if whatever begins to exist has a cause and the Universe had a beginning, what can we understand from this? Without hesitasion he said: it meand the Universe has a cause! And continued… “hm… that cause must be God”!

So wonderful how God can reveal and help to understand these things to children! He’s just 5.. and there are a lot of educated peope that cannot understand this argument!

Thank you for bringing this argument to contemporary Christianity and explaining it into an intelligible form!

Blessings.

-Adrian

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Dr. Craig,

I wanted to send a message to you expressing my gratitude for your ministry. I am currently a cardiac surgeon at UPMC Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. I grew up in church but only have dedicated my life to Christ about 1 year ago. There were 2 inspirations for this. One was The Chosen TV series. As a surgeon, I am a visual learner and something about seeing what is written in the gospels changed how I viewed Jesus. The second was you and your ministry. Being a physician, when I meet with patients and discuss a surgical procedure with them, I always discuss the "why".  This was always a deterent to me growing up in the chruch, because no Christian I knew could answer questions that I had about the faith (although I didn't try hard to search on my own). Goming across you and your ministry has made such a difference in my relationship with the Lord.

I apologize for the long message, but I felt that I should let you know and I hope you gain encouragement from this. God bless you.
 

-Nathan

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Hello Dr. Craig! How are you?

I'm from Brazil (so pardon my English, I'm using the translator), evangelical, and I've long had a great appreciation for all your work in theology, philosophy, and apologetics. And I needed to contact you to testify something. I have been working with popular science for a long time, mainly in paleontology, and at the same time I have always dedicated myself to the study of the creation versus evolution controversy, on my own, since 2008 approximately. In my biblical analyzes and comparison with what we have in paleoanthropology, I ended up reaching the same conclusion as you about the identity of the Historical Adam: Homo heidelbergensis! I came to postulate this around 2011 and 2012, and there is even an old post on my blog (with simple arguments compared to today, of course) where I theorize this, and when I learned that your investigation of the historical Adam culminated in the Same conclusion, I was amazed! For me, it was a confirmation that this really is a very plausible path of study, and I have to say that knowing this has empowered me greatly. Glory to God for that!

I hope, then, that we can share information, because in my investigations, from the identity of Adam as Homo heidelbergensis, I postulate that this also ends up explaining the historical meaning of the controversial passage of Genesis 6 (in what entails the identity of Homo neanderthalensis and of early Homo sapiens in relation to the biblical account) and I would be very happy to be able to share some of my analysis, even though we are quite far apart geographically!
By the way, here in Brazil I have an itinerant exhibition focused on the theme "science and faith" on this issue of origins and, through replicas of fossils, original fossils and other artifacts, I am disseminating not only this hypothesis, but all others about the Adam's historicity and, mainly, the notion that faith and science can walk together - as long as we come to treat both in a rational way. The exhibition is taking place only here in my region, but I hope, with God's grace, that it manages to cross more borders.

Best regards and God bless you!! 

-Rodrigo

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Dear Dr. Craig,
Sincere Greetings from India!
I have been dearly blessed by your very clear explanations and expositions on very difficult topics with immense patience and passion. You are a huge blessing to all serious thinking Bible following believers who would want to have deep understanding of vital issues of real importance. Personally, undoubtedly, I obtain both encouragement and edification through your teachings and discussions.

Thank you very much for your time, patience and devotion; and I wish you good health and grand success in bringing many souls to deeper understanding of faith and the truth!

-Samuel