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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Dr. Craig Live at West University Baptist Church PART 2

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig was recently interviewed by the church staff during Sunday morning worship at West University Baptist Church in Houston Texas.

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0:00.0

So we've read your intellectual books. Most of us know you as this great

0:13.2

debater, but what surprised me a little bit is that you have actually written books

0:16.6

for children. Yes. Can you tell us a little bit about that and why you thought

0:19.8

that is a bad thing? Well, in taking the heart the admonition that I just gave, I wanted to try to raise our children in the instruction and admonition of the Lord. And as a father, I took that seriously.

0:33.2

So I wrote 10 little booklets on the attributes of God

0:39.3

for our two children, Charity and John. And these feature some lovable characters, Brown Bear and Red Goose,

0:47.4

and their little children, the little Cub, John, and the little Gosling Charity, who our children that's their names and this is in fact

0:56.4

our family this this bearing goose family and in these booklets I try to help children have a deeper more expansive concept of God.

1:11.0

God is not just a sort of man with a long white beard sitting on a throne in heaven.

1:17.0

God is all powerful, everywhere present, forever existent, self-existent, all loving and good.

1:26.4

And so we go through these 10 attributes of God in these cartoon booklets in which the little children come to their father and say,

1:35.0

explain this to us and then Papa Bear explains the doctrine to the children using the Bible and answering their questions.

1:45.0

And it's a model for parents, how to engage their children with tough questions,

1:52.0

how to answer them, and especially for fathers,

1:55.8

how to take the lead in instructing your children in Christian doctrine.

2:00.5

So that's the series of 10, as we call them barren goose booklets.

2:05.0

They're the attributes of God for children.

2:08.0

In addition to that, one summer, when the children were somewhat older, I think maybe high schoolish age I thought they need to know the basic rules of the logic and so I

2:19.4

taught Jen and the two kids the basic rules of logic that summer.

2:26.0

Right summer school.

2:28.0

Right, summer school. So you actually taught your kids how to argue.

2:32.0

Yes, in a fact, dangerous, huh?

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