How is God the Creator? pt 1

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How is God the Creator? pt 1

Closer to Truth with Robert Lawrence Kuhn

William Lane Craig

Closer to Truth (PBS) host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks William Lane Craig on the nature of God as creator of creation. Question(s) explored: What is creation witih respect to God? How does God's providence work into creation? What is the difference between efficient and material causes? What is God's conservation of the world? If something is created does it need to be sustained? What is meant by God's creation and God's annihilation of an object?

How is God the Creator? pt 2

William Lane Craig

Is God All Knowing?

William Lane Craig

Closer to Truth (PBS) host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks William Lane Craig on God's omniscience. Questions explored: What does it mean for God to be omniscience? What is meant by proposition? What is meant by non-propositional knowledge? Does God have propositional or non-propositional knowledge? What is the difference between natural knowledge, free knowledge, and middle knowledge? Who is Luis de Molina?

Did God Create From Nothing? pt 3

William Lane Craig

Closer to Truth (PBS) host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks William Lane Craig how God created from nothing. Questions explored: What is meant by God creating from nothing? What did Aristotle mean by efficient causes and material causes? What is metaphysical dualism? What is the initial singularity? Has Christianity always held to the idea of creation out of nothing? What are the two basic views theologians hold to about creation out of nothing? What are the steady state models, oscillating models, vacuum fluctuation models, chaotic inflationary models, quantum gravity models, ekpyrotic models, and cyclic models of the universe? Have these theories been falsified? Is the prevailing thought from contemporary scientists is that the universe is not eternal in the past? What is brain cosmology and string theory? What is the Vilenkin Borde Guth Model?