Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt 9: Does God Cause Everything That Happens In The World?

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Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt 9: Does God Cause Everything That Happens In The World?

June 9, 2024 • William Lane Craig

Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt: 9: Does God Cause Everything That Happens In Our World? //

In our last lesson we differentiated carefully between creation and conservation. Creation is the act of God whereby he first brings something into existence. Conservation is the act of God whereby he keeps something in existence from moment to moment...

There's also is what is called divine concurrence. According to the doctrine of concurrence, God is the cause of everything that happens in the world...

Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt 14: Arguments Against Miracles

July 14, 2024 • William Lane Craig

📺 Doctrine of Creation pt 14: Arguments Against Miracles // 🤺 The roots of the 19th century collapse in the belief in miracles among biblical theologians lay in the 18th century and even earlier. The skepticism of modern man with regard to miracles arose during the Enlightenment, or the so-called Age of Reason, which dawned in Europe in the 17th century.

Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt 13: Miracles

July 7, 2024 • William Lane Craig

Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt: 13: The Collapse of the Belief in Miracles // There's another aspect of the doctrine of divine providence which is classically known as providentia extraordinaria – or God's extraordinary providence. Typically God's extraordinary providence is understood as miracles – his special supernatural acts in the world.

Defenders LIVE! // Doctrine of Creation pt 12: Arminianism and God's Sovereignty & Human Freedom

June 30, 2024 • William Lane Craig

// Arminian & Molinist Accounts of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom // In our study of divine providence we've looked critically at the Calvinist view of providence, and I offered a five-point critique last Sunday of that reconciliation of divine sovereignty and human freedom. Today we want to turn our attention to the Arminian account of divine sovereignty and human freedom on the basis of God's foreknowledge of the future.