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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Reaction to the New York Times Interview, Part 2

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig listens and responds to a Christian talk show reaction to his New York Times interview.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Dr. non Christian responses to your New York Times interview.

0:12.8

Let's look at some Christian responses.

0:15.0

This from Todd Freel and Phil Johnson.

0:18.4

Todd does Wretched Radio, Wretched TV, the podcast as well.

0:22.4

Phil Johnson with John MacArthur's organization.

0:25.0

Todd is a talented radio dude.

0:28.0

I wish I had half his skills.

0:31.0

I wish I was as tall as he is too, but in this particular podcast they

0:35.1

take you to task on your answers in the New York Times. Let's look at a few clips.

0:39.8

Phil Johnson responding to Nicholas Christoph's questions to William Lane Craig.

0:46.0

I've got enough names floating around you. I'm glad you don't have a middle name.

0:49.0

This would make it very difficult. He was asked, was Jesus really born to a virgin? I will share with you, I'm not trying to take him out of context, but I'm just grabbing the things that I thought were kind of eyebrow raising. Question, are you actually confident that Jesus was born to a virgin?

1:06.0

William Lane Craig says, I'm reasonably confident.

1:09.0

Wow, yeah, that's disturbing.

1:12.0

That's just disturbing. Why? Well, because we have a more sure word of

1:16.3

prophecy. Peter's saying it's more sure than his personal experience. When he was on the

1:22.0

mount of transfiguration the most spectacular

1:24.3

thing he ever saw with his own eyes the glory of Christ unveiled and he describes

1:29.2

that event and then he says but we have a more sure word of prophecy something better than a sign and he's

1:35.0

says but we have a more sure word of prophecy.

1:36.6

And he's talking about the scriptures. So if the scriptures say it, I'm more sure of that than I am any any other facts I know.'s here's where I think that comes from I've seen

1:45.2

Christian philosophers I'm always a little bit leery of getting those two words

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