Video material from Dr William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith speaking and debating tour of October 2011, hosted by UCCF, Premier Radio and Damaris (this channel is not run by Dr Craig).
WLC argument for the existence of god always use the anonymously written gospels based on unknown sources and the much-debunked Kalam argument...So boring...
As a Christian believe in God and Jesus. But I also respect anybody who is a Atheist and their views, but sadly Law with his good God Evil God was just pure waffle and Nonsense. To blame God for all the evils of the world over million of years was utter tripe. Atheists like Dennet,Millican,Kitchens and others speak sense all though I don't agree with them
WLC asserts objective morality but has never given an example. Can anyone give an example of an objective moral law? Much less one given to us by an objective moral law giver?
WLC asserts objective morality but has never given an example. Can anyone give an example of an objective moral law? Much less one given to us by an objective moral law giver?
Space time has a beginning. This is what gives us an understanding of existence. God is outside space time, so he does not exist in anyway we can currently understand. God of the gaps.
Space time has a beginning. This is what gives us an understanding of existence. God is outside space time, so he does not exist in anyway we can currently understand. God of the gaps.
Infinity is a difficult concept to get your head around. No surprise that WLC fails miserably. Except he probably knows he's lying for Jesus. Besides, how can you take seriously anyone who claims there are historical facts for the resurrection when there are none. Zero. Not a one.
Jesus Was Born Incarnate Jesus was born incarnate to a young Jewish virgin, lived a sin free life, was illegally persecuted and then crucified on a cross on Calvary. He arose three days later defeating death and ascended into Heaven where He sits at the right hand of God.. Jesus met with 515 people after His resurrection in a dozen different occasions over a period of about 40 days before He ascended into Heaven. Jesus knew He was entering the world to be the final and ultimate sacrifice for the sin of mankind. His body had been divinely prepared by God specifically for that purpose. Jesus was going to die for the sins of the world, and He knew it. Moreover, He was doing it willfully and joyfully. Jesus came to earth to reveal God to mankind and teach truth. He came to fulfill the Law and offer His kingdom to mankind. He came to show us how to live. He came to reveal God’s love. He came to bring peace. He came to heal the sick. He came to minister to the needy. He was raised in a family who didn't believe in His divinity. He had six half-brothers and two or three half-sisters who didn't believe in His divinity until after His resurrection. What gets me is demons knew His divinity but many men and women of His time didn't. I presume Mary and Joseph knew His divinity. But in Luke 2:49-50 [NKJV] “He said to them, [His earthly parents] “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” This makes me wonder, did they not understand Jesus' divinity? "But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." (Matthew 6:33 NKJV) Luke 3:23 states that Jesus was "about 30 years of age" at the start of his ministry. The four Gospels record 37 miracles of Jesus, with Mark's Gospel recording the most. Three New Testament words refer to Jesus's miraclesas power, signs, and wonder. Every miracle of Jesus served a specific purpose in God's plan of salvation for humankind. Jesus' miracles were followed by Jesus forgiving the individuals of their sins and commanding they sin no more. Many of Jesus' miracles were not identified. No other religious leader forgave mankind of their sins. 29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” The Purpose of John’s Gospel “Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, whichwere not recorded in the Bible. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:29-31 KJV) Our sins separate us from God, and there’s nothing we can do to make things right. So, we need someone to save us from our sins and make us acceptable to God. That someone is Jesus Christ. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for among men there is given no other Name under heaven, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12 GNV) That’s why God sent Jesus to earth. Jesus’ death on the cross paid for every wrong we’ve ever committed or will commit in the future. Jesus made it possible for us to have a relationship with God the Father. We are sinner from birth and need help, Jesus Christ is that help, our only hope. Therefore by the deeds of the law (Ten Commandments) no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law our sins are recognized not saved. We must confess (repent) of our sins and iniquities before Jesus Christ, at the foot of the cross daily. Jesus said in Matthew 28:19, to His disciples that: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” I will not stand before The Great White Throne of God, my sins have been cleansed by Jesus Christ's crucifixion on the cross. And I am clothed in the righteousness of Christ of all my sins and iniquities before-today, today and forever. I Love Jesus Christ and despite of the fact that I'm human and I fail Him daily, I pick up my cross daily and follow Him. I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He was crucified on the cross where He died for my sins and inequities and that He rose again on the 3rd day to give me a way through salvation and sanctification, known and unknown. He loves me dearly and has forgiven me of my sins and inequities. His Word says that if I deny Him before men, He will deny me before His Father. Following, I believe are the greatest verses in God's Word. "But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." (Matthew 6:33 NKJV) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 NKJV) I am a Christ-follower and live in the Kingdom of God on earth in Jesus Christ, my Lord, Savior and Leader. I have faith and trust in the grace and mercy of God for eternal life for my soul in Heaven when I pass from this life into paradise. I proclaim this openly to the world, that I am sinner, that I am sorry for my sins and iniquities and repent of my sins and iniquities and receive Jesus Christ by faith into my heart, mind and soul as my Lord, Savior and Leader. I openly confess Him as Lord from this moment on, I want to follow Him, I pledge to obey Him daily, and read His word. I will include those in my prayers who are lost and have chosen to deny God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ declared: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6 NKJV) I am in the “Lamb's Book of Life” and will not face “The Great White Throne of God” which leads to Hell. Jesus said: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and lean on Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” (Matthew 11:28-29 KJV) The grace and glory be to God. God bless
During this lecture, Dr. Craig says God exists timelessly, but he changed his mind. In other videos, he tells us that God is timeless without creation and temporal after it. Anything needs a cause when that thing has parts. The ability to go from being timeless to being temporal is a metaphysical part. So, Dr. Craig's theism produces an infinite causal regress. If classical theism is true and implies that God has no parts, Dr. Craig's God concept implies atheism.
Voltaire once said : “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” (1:04:57) if only Voltaire would've heard Atkins at 1:02:04 ...
I'm a Christian, but what I find really strange about William Lane Craig's argument for Joseph of Arimathæa is that he was a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin. In all 4 Gospel accounts, they describe him as either a disciple or he's waiting for the Kingdom of God. In John's Gospel, it says he was a disciple secretly. I wonder where WLC got this idea.
Stephen Law was too hung up on responding rapidly and looking good to the audience, rather than trying to take in Craig's arguments and responding to them honestly.
"God" created the brain in animals and nature in such a way that they're not aware that they are suffering or feel pain? Have you ever walked into an animal shelter and looked into the eyes of dogs who feel afraid, feel sad, feel lonely, and who feel despair? Have you ever watched them tremble in their emotional struggle in pain? Have you ever watched a dog smile and wag its tail and dance around in joy when its human companions arrive home? To be so mindlessly unaware and ignorant in such a way that you can conclude that "God" created animals in such a way that they are unaware of their own suffering. That takes religion. Religion makes people believe stupid things and say stupid things. Religion is disgusting. Your absurd conclusion is insulting to the human intellect and to the intellect of other animal species that you are obnoxiously out of touch with. The late Christopher Hitchens was correct when he said, "Religion poisons everything."
It's so interesting to see to what extend a man is going to convince himself and then others with hour long complex explanations and twisting scientific facts for the single point of acting as if you can prove something that is just the product of the human imagination.
Atkins got lucky in life to get a platform like this, as, obviously, he's intellectually limited. He manifestly doesn't realise that it's no more difficult for a football match with crowd and media presence during the halftime interval to appear from nothing, or anything else whatsoever, than a subatomic particle (whether one described in current or future scientific literature). Not to perceive this is a sign of brainwashing.
Love the way William Lane Craig told the Audience for those of you who might not of understood Pyles reply let me help you. Pyle had to resort to Sarcasm to make a point
I am confounded that scientists don’t just acknowledge that, “We not know where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going”. Until they get the scientific evidence that they have the answers to these questions, I think the appropriate answer should be, “We don’t know”.
Explanations, explain. The noun god explains precisely nothing. How exactly can something that does not explain anything be claimed to be an explanation of anything? Craig has been corrected multiple times on his assertions about the origin of the universe, and one he conveniently ignores every time, which is that the universe exists as a brute fact. That is it exists necessarily. And before all you theists try to jump on this, consider that BOTH theist and atheist accept that nothing can come from nothing. It has no properties, no potentiality. Hence, whatever the universe is, it must exist necessarily. Likewise, it must necessarily exist in a form that facilitates the fine tuned constants. The crucial correction on Craig’s assertion of the universe, physical necessity, should instead be a brute fact. This is not only perfectly consistent with everything that is known, but is also philosophically robust. To try and argue that a necessary state needs an explanation (god) is to defy the rationality of a necessary state. Thus, Craig is trying to argue that god explains a necessary state (which IS an explanation), but ironically is necessarily incoherent. In other words he his trying to provide an explanation of the explanandum. And that, dear theist, is just nonsense. Also note that Craig banging on the validity of the Kalam only ever demonstrates a cause, not god. And Craig’s moral argument is widely regarded as philosophical fluff and is not taken seriously for a very good reason. Theist you should know there are many ethical explanations that not only take objective morality as a given, but literally dozens of them have no need to ground their explanations in any god gobbledegook.
Besides being a brilliant & clear Philosopher & Theologian, in his graciousness & kindness, William Lane Craig is kind of like a Christian Mr. Rogers. Both WL Craig & Mr. Rogers might be seen as weak &/ or vulnerable by virtue of their gentleness but both are strong & masculine men in the truest sense of the word. ❤
