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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Prayer for the Resurrection of a Child

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A popular church prayed that a deceased child would come back to life. Dr. Craig offers insight on the prayer that went viral

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, so glad you're here for Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig.

0:15.0

I'm Kevin Harris and you know at the time of this pandemic a lot of people are looking for solid answers.

0:22.0

There are people who are seeking all over the earth right now for

0:26.2

God and his existence. And we want to provide the resources for them to get good answers. Thank you for your prayers. Any donation that you can make

0:36.1

would be very appreciated any size at reasonable faith.org and Dr Craig and his

0:42.4

wife Jan are doing well at the moment and

0:45.1

they're sequestered in their homes just like most of us are kind of a sensitive topic

0:50.7

today we're gonna be talking about a prayer for a little girl to be

0:54.0

raised from the dead that went viral. Dr Craig's going to offer some wisdom on

0:58.9

that right here on Reasonable Faith. on reasonable faith. Dr Craig, this story made nationwide news and it's a sad story, but I think that perhaps you can give us a little clarity on what to do in the

1:16.1

event that a child dies, a member of the congregation. Bethel Church has been trying to pray that God would raise this little girl, that

1:26.8

die a little two-year-old girl, back from the dead.

1:31.2

And it made news and they tweeted it out in the social media and of course all the

1:37.0

atheist blogs have picked up on it as a disprove of Christianity because she

1:42.0

didn't rise and they finally admitted that no she's not

1:44.9

going to come back but I will say this about Bethel Church they they are very

1:50.3

charismatic Pentecostal church.

1:53.6

Some of the best music I've ever heard

1:55.6

in contemporary Christian music.

1:56.9

Their music is unbelievably good,

1:59.8

but their theology is bad in so many ways. I'm not trying to be elitist or

2:06.7

uncharitable or unkind when I say that but it is typical of a lot of excesses.

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