Dr. Craig, really good questions have come into reasonable faith.

This is a question on the finitude of the past.

You have said that if the past comprises of an actually infinite number of past events,

then the present would never occur, because before today, what had ever ever happen you would need an infinite amount of

previous days to happen first. What if the past is not actually infinite but potentially infinite?

What if the past is increasing towards infinity as the present continuously slips into the past.

Could we then say that we have an infinite past,

or would a B theory of time be able to avoid the problem of the present?

That's Daniel from the United States.

Well, as I've explained in my published work,

you cannot analyze the past as a potential infinite,

as you can the future. For the past to be potentially infinite, it would have to have a beginning

in the present and be increasing in a backward direction, even though it is at every

point finite.

And that is simply incompatible with the nature of time.

It is the nature of time that one event happens after another. Events do not begin in the present

and then happen sequentially earlier and earlier than one another. Our thoughts can range over

the past events beginning in the present and regressing into the past. But the events themselves

are happening forward, so to speak, from the earlier to the later than direction. And so the

idea that the past could be potentially infinite, I think, is incoherent. The past would have to be finite, but growing

in a backward direction, which makes no sense at all. As for the so-called B theory of time,

what he's talking about there is a view of time according to which there is no difference

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