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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Questions on Atonement, Existentialism, and Purpose

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Questions about Christ's deity and the atonement, the value of work, and evolution's purpose.

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0:00.0

Hey Dr. Craig, thank you for your defense of the Gospel and of the existence of God.

0:15.1

It has helped me defend what I believe so much.

0:17.9

Your resources on reasonable faith have helped me immensely as I went through an introductory

0:21.8

philosophy class where my professor was skeptical about God's existence.

0:26.1

I've been pondering on this question and can't find an answer.

0:29.6

Other religions and even some cults deny the deity of Christ like Jehovah's Witnesses.

0:35.0

I know that because of sin, we as humans are under God's wrath and are destined to

0:39.6

an eternal punishment away from God if we don't put our faith in Christ.

0:44.1

If Jesus was not divine, even though the Bible is clear He was, could Him then be a finite

0:49.7

created being satisfy the wrath of God if He was sinless but not divine?

0:56.4

I would love to be able to understand this because it would be helpful in witnessing

0:59.9

to people who deny the deity of Christ.

1:02.8

Thanks from Lewis.

1:04.1

This question about the efficacy of the atonement is one that is commonly discussed by Christian

1:10.7

theologians.

1:12.3

The burden of Saint Anselms, famous treatise, why God became man, is that no human being,

1:21.6

a sinless human being, could satisfy for the sins of humanity before God.

1:29.6

Christ had to be divine in order to satisfy the demands of divine justice.

1:35.6

I think that that's intuitively plausible when you think about it.

1:41.0

Think of all the sins committed by all the people in the history of the world, not only

1:45.6

past and present but future.

1:48.4

How could anyone satisfy the demands of God's justice unless He were a divine person and

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