Question of the Week #974: Proving “God”
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Dr. Craig. I hope your day has been going well. Dr. Craig, what would you answer to an objection like this in a debate? |
| 0:22.5 | Here the atheist responds after Dr. Craig's first speech. |
| 0:26.3 | Yes, your cumulative case works, but your God still lacks 100% omnipotence, 100% omniscience, |
| 0:33.4 | 100% immutability, 100% acity, and maybe others attributes. |
| 0:38.3 | These properties are necessary for a perfect being, and even if your little G God existed, |
| 0:43.3 | that wouldn't show atheism is therefore implausible. |
| 0:46.3 | Because we have no grounds for saying it's probable that he has those lacking attributes, |
| 0:51.3 | you need to bring more arguments, and in fact, it might make atheism |
| 0:55.5 | plausible, for if this little God existed, then there wouldn't be a perfect being, since being |
| 1:01.3 | omnipotent requires that he created your God, but you showed that your God is uncreated |
| 1:06.9 | through the Calam, therefore throwing away the possibility of a true God. |
| 1:12.0 | Your resurrection argument also works, but now we have to be sure that Yahweh is perfect, |
| 1:17.1 | which is another subject. So the resurrection in and of itself faces the same problem |
| 1:21.8 | than the other's arguments. And I have no problem with accepting the existence of this God |
| 1:26.7 | as long as he's not perfect. |
| 1:29.1 | Thank you. Dorelle, Cote d'Ivoire. |
| 1:32.0 | There are numerous problems, Dorel, with this imagined atheist response to my theistic arguments. |
| 1:41.1 | First, we need not adopt for debate purposes a theologically highly refined conception of God, |
| 1:49.7 | but may simply work with a dictionary definition of the word. For example, the supreme being |
| 1:56.4 | worshipped as the creator or ultimate source of the universe. |
| 2:02.5 | This is the notion of God as understood in ordinary language and employed in most debates on the |
| 2:09.3 | subject. |
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