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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Questions on Numbers, Certainty, and the Trinity

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig answers questions on the nature of numbers, the need for certainty, and the relationship between the Argument From Contingency and the Trinity.

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0:00.0

Well, Bill, it's always fun for us to put you in the hot seat and get some of these questions

0:09.6

answered if we get questions from all over the globe. In fact, this first question comes to us from Ecuador,

0:15.6

Francisco and Ecuador.

0:17.4

He says, I've been following for many years,

0:19.3

Dr Craig's ministry, and it's been a real blessing.

0:21.9

I'm even making videos in Spanish based on many of

0:25.0

the arguments I've seen that he uses in a YouTube channel. My question is concerning

0:30.4

Dr. Gregg's position on anti-realism, numbers, and objective morality.

0:36.1

Since morality does exist because it is grounded in God's nature, could that also be the case

0:41.4

for numbers and mathematics?

0:43.6

I understand that, for example, it's strange that propositions and properties exist

0:50.1

as in the conceptualist view.

0:52.4

But mathematics do seem to have some of the characteristics of God,

0:56.8

such as perfection in the sense of consistency in being exact,

1:01.2

and infinity in a way, especially if they are in the mind of God.

1:07.0

So if we separate mathematics or numbers from properties and propositions, would you say that probably they exist in the mind or

1:15.9

nature of God the same way moral values and duties exist? And he says secondly if that's

1:22.1

the case could the conceptualist argument work only with

1:25.8

mathematics or numbers. Thank you very much for your time Francisco.

1:29.2

Well let's just address these in reverse order. Certainly if you do think that mathematical entities

1:34.9

are somehow grounded in God's nature, then you can run a conceptualist argument for God's existence based upon the reality of mathematical objects and the objectivity

1:48.0

of mathematical truth.

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