Bill, whenever I see an article that starts off, William Lane Craig is my number one all-time favorite Christian philosopher and apologist.

I usually see a big butt coming.

Evan Minton talks about your criticisms of the Cosmic temple view of Genesis.

And he goes on to say,

he is the one Christian apologist whose views most closely align with my own

concerning arguments for God's existence,

the methodology of using the minimal facts to

establish history of Jesus' resurrection, Molinism, so forth.

He says, I scarcely find myself uttering the words, William Lane Craig is wrong about X, Craig has had the biggest

influence on the intellectual role of my Walk with Christ.

And I was, am, and continued to be blessed by his books, podcast, and Q&A articles.

And with all of that said, I think that Craig has missed the mark on interpreting Genesis

1 in one of those areas.

And Bill, he's talking about the Cosmic Temple view of Genesis

1 that John Walton has offered you've been discussing this on the defenders class, and so people can get

further information on what the Cosmic Temple view is. You want to give us a

summation of Cosmic Temple View of Genesis 1?

Well, the other thing about this blog by Evan is that it's not about

Walton's Cosmic Temple view of Genesis 1 or 2 and 3.

The Cosmic Temple view is Walton's thesis that God has created the universe as a sort of

of cosmic temple in which he can rest or dwell or reside and this is supposed to be on the model of the pagan deities of the

ancient Near East which were thought to reside in temples. And since God cannot be contained in any physical building the notion

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