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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Does God Learn?

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig explains his views on God, time, and God's knowledge.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bill, I think you shocked the internet. At least that's the title of a video from Brackston

0:16.0

Hunter, Jonathan Pritchett, and Tim Stratton, three friends of reasonable faith and self-professed

0:21.9

Craig Heads.

0:23.9

They discussed aspects of your work on God and Time.

0:27.7

This is going to be a good follow-up to our last podcast.

0:31.1

Apparently, some people on social media were upset about a short video that you posted

0:36.5

on God's relationships of time.

0:39.0

That video that you did, Bill, is in this first clip, so let's see what all the fuss is about.

0:44.5

Here's clip number one.

0:45.5

One might think that if God is omniscient, then he can't learn anything new because to be omniscient is to know all truth.

0:58.6

It's to know all the facts there are.

1:01.3

But in fact, an omniscient being can learn things that are new if he is in time. If God is in time, then at any particular moment of time,

1:17.1

he knows all the truths that there are at that moment. But if truth changes over time,

1:25.9

then God's knowledge will change over time as well. So to illustrate,

1:30.3

say at a certain moment, God knows that Bill Craig is now eating lunch. But in a few moments, he will no longer know that

1:40.3

because Bill Craig is not eating lunch at that moment. He will now know Bill Craig is

1:47.1

resuming his study, and he'll come to know instead of Bill Craig is now eating lunch. He will

1:54.9

say Bill Craig was then eating lunch. So if God is in time, even though he knows all the truths that there are at any

2:04.4

moment of time, because truths change over time, God will, in fact, learn new truths, new facts

2:14.1

as time elapses. So here's what I think, Craig, what I think I know Craig is saying.

2:20.6

So Craig has this view that God is timeless, sans creation.

2:25.4

That is, without creation, God is timeless.

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