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📺🤺 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..."
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Creation pt: 02: Genesis & Science of Creation //
April 14, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Creation pt: 02: Genesis & Science of Creation // Last time we began our study of the doctrine of creation by looking at biblical data in support of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo or creation out of nothing.
📺 New Section: Doctrine of Creation pt 1: Creation Out Of Nothing // Defenders LIVE! 🤺
April 7, 2024 • William Lane Craig • Genesis 2:5–7, Hosea 1:2, Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Creation pt: 1: Creation Out Of Nothing // Having completed the section on the doctrine of Christ, we turn today to a new section in our class. The bulk of our time has been spent talking about the doctrine of God, quite appropriately so. After an initial section on the doctrine of revelation, we plunged into a discussion of the attributes and existence of God. We looked at the Trinity. We looked at the person of the Holy Spirit. We looked at the person and work of Christ. And today we want to shift our attention from God to the world that he has made. This is the subject of the doctrine of creation.
✝ 🙌 | Defenders Easter Special: Is There Evidence That Jesus Rose From The Dead?
March 31, 2024 • William Lane Craig
✝️ If the resurrection of Jesus is an actual event of history, it's the most important event of history. So how much do you know about it? Watch this talk on evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. Happy Resurrection Sunday to you all! Christ really is risen indeed! 🙌🏼 ✝️ 🙌🏼
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt 51: Is Jesus The Only Way?
March 24, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 51: Conclusions - Is Jesus The Only Way? Today we’re going to wrap up our discussion of Christian particularism. I think the lesson will be fairly short today because we’re right near the end of this section, and I don’t want to begin a new section midway through the class, but put that off until next Sunday.
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt 50: Is Christianity Exclusive?
March 17, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 50: Pushing the Case for Christian Particularism Further // Last time I argued that the religious pluralist has failed to show any inconsistency between the beliefs that God is all-powerful and all-loving and that some people nevertheless do not hear the Gospel and are lost. The religious pluralist has failed to show that there is a world which is feasible for God to create which involves universal salvation but without overriding disadvantages, and therefore the pluralist’s argument fails. Now, before we proceed, I want to respond to an objection that was raised on Facebook by one of our Internet members of the class. He said, Wait a minute! I can prove that there is a feasible world available to God in which everyone always freely does the right thing and doesn’t have overriding disadvantages; namely, heaven! That’s what heaven is! God could simply create heaven without all of the run-up to it...
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // The Doctrine of Christ pt 49: The Problem of Christian Particularism
March 10, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 49: Is There A Problem With Christianity Being Exclusively True? // Last time I argued that salvation is universally accessible through God’s general revelation in nature and conscience even if it is rarely, if ever, actually accessed in that way. Therefore the problem posed by mankind’s religious diversity cannot be simply reduced to the fact that many lost people are uninformed or misinformed about Jesus Christ. Rather, I think that the real problem is that if God is all-knowing then he knew even before he created the world who would receive the Gospel and be saved and who would not
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt 48: Are There Other Ways To God?
March 3, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 48: Are There Other Ways To God // The real issue raised by religious pluralism is the fate of unbelievers who lie outside of one’s particular religious tradition. Christian particularism consigns such persons to hell. Pluralists simply find that unconscionable. Nowhere is this problem better illustrated than in the life of my own doctoral mentor, John Hick, at the University of Birmingham.
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ Part 46: Practical Application
February 18, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 46: Practical Application // Today we want to bring to a close our study of the resurrection of Jesus. We’ve seen that the resurrection hypothesis that God raised Jesus from the dead provides the best explanation for the facts of the empty tomb, the postmortem appearances of Jesus, and the origin of the disciples’ faith in his resurrection. Before we look at some application of this truth to our lives, I want to say a couple of words about sharing this material with other persons.
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ Part 45: The Resurrection Hypothesis
February 11, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 45: Is Resurrection The Best Explanation? // We now come at long last to the resurrection hypothesis. Does the resurrection hypothesis do any better than its rivals in explaining the evidence of the empty tomb, the postmortem appearances of Jesus, and the origin of the disciples’ belief in his resurrection? In order to answer that question let’s run the resurrection hypothesis through those six criteria that McCullagh suggests for assessing historical hypotheses.
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ Part 44: Hallucinations vs The Resurrection
February 4, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 44: The Hallucination Theory // We have been thinking about the explanation offered by the myth and legend hypothesis of the empty tomb, the postmortem appearances of Jesus, and the origin of the Christian faith. We saw last time that this explanation fails to offer a plausible account of the origin of the disciples’ belief that God had raised Jesus from the dead...
📺 Watch Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Chris pt 43: The Stupidity of the Myth Hypothesis
January 28, 2024 • William Lane Craig
📺 Defenders LIVE! 🤺 // Doctrine of Christ pt: 43: The Stupidity of the Myth Hypothesis // We are in the process of examining competing hypotheses to explain the facts of Jesus’ empty tomb, his postmortem appearances, and the origin of the disciples’ faith. Up to this point, all of the hypotheses that we’ve examined are defunct hypotheses. That is to say, they are not defended by modern scholars. But today we come to an alternative hypothesis to the resurrection hypothesis which is currently defended by some scholars, and that is the myth or legend hypothesis.
📺 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.