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so much. Now let's head to the studio and talk to Dr. Craig. Bill, we have some great questions

that listeners and viewers have sent to us and we've got one from Facebook here that we'll

ask you about. Nick Henretty from Facebook says, could someone offer some clarification for me

on Dr. Craig's argument for God's goodness? Multiple times in videos articles and in philosophical

foundations. The only justification I see Craig give for thinking that God must be good

is that God by definition is a being worthy of worship and if God were not perfectly good,

then he would not be worthy of worship. Two questions arise. He says, one,

what does Craig get the idea that God is by definition worthy of worship? Bill, would you like to

take that one first? Sure. It seems to me that this is ordinary usage that when we speak of God,

we are talking about a being who is properly worshiped and if a being is not properly worshiped,

then that being is not God. So I think that is true by definition that God is a being worthy of

worship. This would also be reinforced by the concept of God as a maximally great being.

As a maximally great being, God must be a perfect being and therefore be perfectly good.

Goodness is obviously a great making property and therefore a being that was maximally great would

be perfectly good. Second question, he says, well, why think that God is only worthy of worship

if he is perfectly good? This again would suffer from the arbitrary problem. My definition of God is

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