You know, Dr. Craig, we can't go very long before we start hearing about your view on

the witness of the Holy Spirit, the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, and we find ourselves

coming back to it from time to time, looking for new aspects of it. And in case there is a listener or

viewer who doesn't know what we're talking about, the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, why don't you

spell that out? And then we will, then we have something on Facebook here from a Christian who

disagrees with this whole issue. Yes. In my book, Reasonable Faith, I ask the question, how do we know

that Christianity is true? And I draw distinction between knowing Christianity is true and showing

Christianity is true. And I argue that although the way in which we show Christianity is true is via

arguments and evidence, that's not the primary way in which we know Christianity to be true.

As I read the New Testament, it seems to me that the primary way in which we know that our faith is

true is through the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. Paul says in Romans 8 that when we cry,

Abba, Father, it is God's Spirit bearing witness with our Spirit that we are children of God,

which entails Christian doctrinal claims. This emphasis upon the witness of the Holy Spirit

is a classical Protestant emphasis and has received renewed attention in Alvin Plantinga,

so-called Reform Depistemology. Plantinga argues that the way in which we know Christian

truth claims is through the inner instigation or witness of the Holy Spirit to the great

truths of the gospel, which we read in Scripture. And so that's the basic idea is that God has

supplied us with a means of knowing the truth of the great doctrinal claims of the Christian faith

that is independent of argument and evidence, but is based upon his own inner witness to us.

And so here is the objection from David on Facebook. He says,

I love Dr. William Lane Craig. He's done amazing work in philosophy, theology, and apologetics.

Indeed, I would venture to say that I owe him more of an intellectual debt than just about anyone

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