Why the Kalam Cosmological Argument?
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, it's Kevin Harris and we're going to continue to look at questions from all over the world today. |
| 0:17.0 | I want to remind you that at the airing of this podcast, we're coming close to the end of the year. |
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| 0:36.9 | and thanks so much. |
| 0:39.1 | Now let's continue looking at some great questions |
| 0:41.6 | for Dr Craig on today's podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Well Bill, let's keep you in the hot seat and keep you answering these questions |
| 0:47.7 | because we've gotten some from all over. |
| 0:50.2 | These questions interact with your work, with the questions of the week, |
| 0:53.7 | and with a website in your books. From the United States, Parker says, |
| 0:57.1 | first of all, I just wanted to say how useful your ministry has been to me |
| 1:01.3 | and the development of my faith. I'm very grateful for all the great |
| 1:04.4 | work you've done. My question revolves around the nature of the cause of the |
| 1:08.2 | universe. Accepting that there cannot be an infinite regress of temporal causes, we can conclude that the |
| 1:15.0 | past must be finite in the universe has a beginning. |
| 1:18.2 | So accepting the first two premises of the Kalam, we conclude that the universe has a cause. |
| 1:24.0 | Upon further examination, we can say that whatever cause the universe or |
| 1:28.0 | all physical reality is eternal and exist by necessity. |
| 1:32.0 | However, could one object and exist by necessity. |
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