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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Dr. Craig, I have read a lot of texts on your website and as far as I'm able to follow your answers. |
| 0:20.0 | I mean the more difficult philosophical, |
| 0:23.1 | logical explanations, I have found a lot of useful advice in order to enable me to give answers. |
| 0:31.1 | One of the questions that often arise are those that deal with Jesus' divinity. I know most of the places in the New Testament where |
| 0:39.7 | Jesus refers to his status as Son of God, but I'm always confused when I read that some scholars |
| 0:46.5 | maintain that he never claimed to be God. Now I found an article in Wikipedia, which also mentions |
| 0:53.1 | a kind of criticism from your part, |
| 0:55.6 | which really makes me uneasy because I thought that you defended Jesus' deity. |
| 1:01.0 | Here's the quotation. |
| 1:02.8 | Craig gives several other logically possible alternatives. |
| 1:07.1 | Jesus' claims as to his divinity were merely good faith mistakes resulting from his sincere efforts at reasoning. |
| 1:14.4 | Jesus was deluded with respect to the specific issue of his own divinity, while his faculties of moral |
| 1:21.6 | reasoning remained intact, or Jesus did not understand the claims he made about himself as amounting to a claim to divinity. |
| 1:30.7 | Please help me to disentangle my confusion, Margaret, Germany. |
| 1:35.1 | Wow, this just goes to underscore the point that you can't blindly trust Wikipedia, |
| 1:42.3 | but must always verify what it says. |
| 1:45.4 | I guarantee you that I never said anything like the quotation that is attributed to me. |
| 1:53.2 | Check out the source. |
| 1:55.8 | I'm inferring here that the context is something like the famous liar, lunatic, or lord |
| 2:04.1 | trilemma for explaining Jesus' radical personal claims. By showing that Jesus was not plausibly a liar |
| 2:12.5 | or a lunatic, one can show that he was who he claimed to be, namely the Lord. I've criticized the |
| 2:20.8 | traditional trilemma for its incompleteness. We need to add and then exclude a fourth alternative, |
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