Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of the Trinity, Part 8.

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Last time we were together, we looked in some detail at the Nicene Creed, and I think as we

begin today, it would be useful to read it through one more time to refresh our memories before we

proceed. We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ,

the Son of God, begotten from the Father, only begotten, that is, from the substance of the Father.

God from God, light from light, true God, from true God.

Begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father, through whom all things came into being,

things in heaven and things on earth,

who because of us men and because of our salvation,

came down and became incarnate, becoming man,

suffered and rose again on the third day, ascended to the heavens,

and will come to judge the living and the dead, and in the Holy Spirit.

But for those who say there was when he was not, and before being born, he was not,

and that he came into existence out of nothing,

or who assert that the Son of God is from a different who postasis or substance,

or is created, or is subject to alteration or change,

these the Catholic Church anathematizes.

Now, last week we had a blizzard of terminology in discussing this creedal statement,

and lest you go away confused, let me pare it down to just a couple of essential terms

that I think you should add to your theological vocabulary

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