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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Questions on Eternity, Klingons, and Death

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr.Craig fields questions on the concept of eternity, what happens at death, and whether Christ could incarnate in human and alien form simultaneously.

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0:00.0

Well, Bill, it's that time again when we get your thoughts on some questions that we've received at reasonable faith.org.

0:16.8

And from around Facebook, this first one says,

0:20.0

Hi, Dr. Craig, I really appreciate your tireless efforts

0:23.3

in defending the truths of Christianity.

0:25.7

I'm sure you get lots of emails in your inbox,

0:28.2

so I will understand if this is not answered.

0:31.2

I was wondering, is the concept of eternity coherent?

0:36.2

My imagination is sincerely lacking in this area. In the intermediary state,

0:41.9

when the soul leaves the body, with what eyes do we see? On the resurrection day, when our souls

0:49.6

are reunited with our physical bodies, does that mean that there will be a time when those of us

0:56.0

who are buried and not cremated will be alive underground in a coffin? I find it difficult,

1:04.4

as I'm sure most do, and trying to understand the concept of the passage of time in eternity.

1:11.6

Perhaps not a good analogy, but it sometimes helps me to think that when I dream,

1:16.6

I don't feel time moving at all.

1:19.6

Perhaps heaven is like that, except everything is more real and not less real as in a dream.

1:26.6

So many other things puzzle me like our ages in heaven,

1:32.1

or the nature a person will have who has been born with brain defects or genetic abnormalities.

1:40.4

Jesus kept his scars. Does that mean that we'll all have our scars too? Are there any popular

1:48.2

level books you could recommend that deal with these questions? Sorry for these ramblings that are likely

1:53.6

less coherent than my initial question. Thanks. That's James from the UK. Yeah, a lot of stuff

2:00.7

we all think about in that one, Bill.

2:02.5

Well, there are a ton of questions here that James asked. Let me try to work through them one at a time.

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