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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Questions on Causality, In-House Debates, and "Word Salad"

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig is asked about the nature of in-house debates, causality, and a listener accuses him of "word salad"!

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0:00.0

And I'm I fly over the mountain.

0:20.0

over the mountain to save my soul away.

0:27.0

Sieve my son away. This next question comes to us from Singapore says Dr Craig often says that certain issues are in-house

0:50.0

debates within the church for example biblical inerancy.

0:54.0

What are the criteria used to judge whether or not a debate is considered in-house?

1:00.0

Dr Craig has mentioned that he rejects the classical theistic view of God,

1:05.0

likening that view of God to more pantheistic eastern religions.

1:09.5

Given how radically different the two views of God are, why and how should this issue be

1:14.5

considered an in-house debate?

1:16.8

Now before I address Scooter's question, let me say that what I reject is not so much the classical theistic view of God,

1:27.0

which I adhere to. What I reject is the doctrine of divine simplicity as Thomas Aquinas enunciates and explains

1:38.0

that I do not think that a tomistic doctrine of divine simplicity is correct, but that is hardly incumbent

1:47.4

upon theists. In fact that leads to the answer to Scooter's question. There are lots of Christian Theists who don't hold to a

1:55.8

Tomistic doctrine of divine simplicity and the line between salvation and

2:01.4

damnation does not fall along that same line. So what makes it an

2:06.6

in-house issue is that it isn't decisive for a person's salvation. To be heretical, a view will have to be below the cutoff

2:19.4

line of what is necessary to affirm in order to be a

2:24.0

regenerate Christian, to be saved.

2:27.0

And so I think that for most issues,

2:32.0

they tend to be in-house questions among people who are sincere,

2:38.0

regenerate Christians and that

2:45.0

Romans chapter 14 addresses that policies that

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