James White vs William Lane Craig: Calvinism vs Molinism on the problem of evil

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Calvinism and Molinism are two very different ways of understanding God's sovereignty. But which one best addresses the problem of evil? James White argues that Calvinism - God foreordaining all human behaviour both good and evil - is the more Biblical and coherent view. William (Bill) Lane Craig argues that Molinism - a view which reconciles human freedom and divine sovereignty - is Biblically consistent without making God the author of evil. For James White: https://www.aomin.org For Bill Craig: https://www.reasonablefaith.org For the 2013 Bill Craig & Paul Helm dialogue on Calvinism & Molinism: https://bit.ly/3o550G0 --- For exclusive resources and to support us: • Register for Premier Unbelievable? Live: http://www.unbelievable.live • Confident Christianity apologetics course: http://www.premier.org.uk/getconfident • Support (USA): http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support (rest of the world): https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable • For our newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • For our blog: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievable-the-blog • For the podcast: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PremierUnbelievable • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	If we're going to say that the great Yahweh is limited in what he can do, what is feasible
0:14.1	for him to do, then we need to know from whence comes this strange, delimitating authority.
0:23.8	But I don't think that James, you've ever squarely confronted the objection to saying
0:30.1	that it's true only logically posterior to the divine decree, namely that makes God the
0:35.8	author available.
0:39.7	You're listening to Unbelievable with Justin Brielly.
0:44.0	Hello and welcome to the show that brings you conversations that matter and it's a highly
0:49.9	anticipated edition of the show today with James White and William Lane Craig ever since
0:54.6	I announced it last week and posted a screenshot of it on our social media on Monday.
1:00.2	Absolutely blew up, hundreds of shares and comments on Twitter and Facebook.
1:04.2	Lots of people are apparently dancing with Glee at the prostate, bringing these two together.
1:09.6	So a big shout out to my unbelievable colleague and right hand man Peter Byram, who was largely
1:14.5	responsible for making this one happen.
1:17.0	So glad it's got a lot of people interested.
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