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📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt 42: The Resurrection Theory

January 21, 2024 • William Lane Craig

📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 42: The Three Facts & The Resurrection //


We have seen that there are principally three facts that any adequate historical hypothesis must account for – the discovery of Jesus' empty tomb, his postmortem appearances to various individuals and groups, and finally the very origin of the disciples' belief in his resurrection. Today we now want to turn to various competing hypotheses that are attempts to explain these three facts. We want to assess their adequacy to determine which is the best explanation.

Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation Part 6: Objections To Creation Out Of Nothing

May 19, 2024 • William Lane Craig

Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt: 6: Objections to creatio ex nihilo // Today we want to consider objections to the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo. Objections to this doctrine may take the form of either objections to the ex nihilo part of the formula or to the creatio part of the formula. Objections to the ex nihilo part say that creation cannot be ex nihilo. It is impossible to create something ex nihilo. While objections to the creatio part of the formula contend that coming into being ex nihilo is easy and therefore there's no need for creatio. So these objections are polar opposites, and yet you find both of them pressed against creatio ex nihilo.

📺🤺 Defenders LIVE! 📺🤺 // 🌎 Doctrine of Creation pt 5: Creation Out Of Nothing

May 12, 2024 • William Lane Craig

📺🤺 Defenders LIVE! // 🌎 Doctrine of Creation pt 5: Arguments for Creation Out Of Nothing We've been talking about the definition of creatio ex nihilo, and I offered three conditions that are necessary and sufficient for something beginning to exist...

📺🤺 Defenders LIVE! // 🌎 Doctrine of Creation pt 4: "Bringing Something Into Being"

May 5, 2024 • William Lane Craig

📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // 🌎 The Christian Doctrine of Creation pt: 4: The Notion Of "Bringing Something Into Being" // We’ve been talking about the biblical data concerning the doctrine of creation and in particular creation "ex nihilo."  Now let's look at what it means to say that God brought something "into being..."