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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Question of the Week #946: Earnest Questions from the Tien Shan Mountains

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0

Dear Professor Craig, my name is Abdullah. I'm a student from Kyrgyzstan, whose knights have been consumed for the past three years by your works.

0:22.6

From the tense theory of time to your debate with Opie in God and Time.

0:27.6

Today, I write to you not as an academic, but as someone for whom your analysis of time, in time and eternity, became the key to an existential trap how to reconcile

0:39.5

the rational rigor of the Callum cosmological argument KCA with the existential leap

0:45.3

of faith that in your words must risk itself in the darkness my questions

0:51.2

arise not from a desire to dispute the KCA but from an attempt to locate within your system the point where metaphysics ceases to be abstraction and becomes breath.

1:02.0

What you termed in philosophical foundations for a Christian worldview as the drama of creation.

1:08.0

Number 1.

1:10.0

Time as an attribute of dependency. Why does the KCA

1:15.3

require not a beginning, but necessary dependence? In the Callum Cosmological Argument,

1:23.2

1979, you define beginning to exist as acquiring being through a cause.

1:29.3

Yet, if we accept your model of God's temporal eternity from God and time,

1:35.3

where his existence without the world lacks a temporal axis, then the paradox,

1:41.3

if there was no time prior to t equals zero,

1:45.0

the universe's acquisition of being cannot be a temporal act.

1:49.0

Thus, the KCA proves not a beginning, but ontological dependence,

1:54.0

closer to Thomism than classical column.

1:58.0

Question.

1:59.0

Does this not render the emphasis on beginning a concession to

2:03.5

scientific mainstream Big Bang at the expense of metaphysical rigor? How does this align with

2:10.0

your rejection of the metaphysical principle of sufficient reason in your debate with

2:14.9

Pras? Number two. Assity and the violence of logic.

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