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Bill, we have questions from people from different parts of the world.

Various countries today that have come into reasonablefaith.org and let's look at a few of these.

This first question says, Dr. Craig, a man lived his entire life in a remote jungle with his tribe,

disconnected with the rest of the world.

As he'd surveyed the world, he recognized patterns, coherence, harmony, paradox, and beauty.

His wrestling ultimately led him to believe that this world belongs to a creator.

The man feared the creator, for the creator was an infinite being, powerful enough to create the endless skies and countless stars.

The all-knowing creator likely knew the secret matters of the man's heart.

The man came to the conclusion that if there is anyone he must be in good terms with, it would be the creator.

Years went by and the man faced the damning reality that he simply cannot be blameless in sight of his creator.

The best action the man would take was asking the creator for forgiveness.

According to Christian doctrine, what can you say about this man's eternal destiny?

This is from Anwu in the United States.

I would answer Anwu's question by saying that although there is a diversity of Christian views about this subject, my own personal view is that this man would be saved by his faith in the creator through the blood of Christ,

applied to him without his having a conscious knowledge of Christ.

He would be like persons in the Old Testament who had never heard of Christ, but who were responsive to the light of revelation that God had given them,

and so they were beneficiaries of Christ's atoning death without having a conscious knowledge of Christ.

So this man would not be saved by his good works. On the contrary, he would be saved by recognizing there was nothing he could do to save himself and simply flinging himself upon the mercy of the creator and asking for forgiveness.

And it seems to me that in Romans chapter 1 and 2 Paul says that this is precisely the sort of person whom God will save on the judgment day.

Question number 2 says, dear Dr. Craig, I have a question about how or if multiplied probabilities are to be applied to the premises of an argument.

For example, for the Kalam cosmological argument, let's say that I find the first premise to be fairly convincing.

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