“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s spiritual health and posterity. God knew that if these Canaanite children were allowed to live, they… — William Lane Craig Copy Share
“I think that a good start at this problem is to enunciate our ethical theory that underlies our moral judgements. According to the version of divine command ethics which I’ve defended, our moral duties are constituted by the commands of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s spiritual health and posterity. God knew that if these Canaanite children were allowed to live, they would spell the undoing of Israel. The killing of the Canaanite children not only served to prevent assimilation to Canaanite… — William Lane Craig Copy Share
If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you. — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“...if there's a supernatural agent that is working in the natural world, then the idealized conditions described by the law are no longer in… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
If true love came at a price, the price would be all worth while if i was spending it on you. — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“There are various virtues of what counts as a best explanation, and I imagine familiarity is one of them.” — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
People think of time as a continuum composed of points which is stretched out at a line, and even if you add a direction to it and say one direction on the line is past and the other direction is future, or better, one direction is "earlier than" and the other direction is "later than", you're still thinking of it… — William Lane Craig Copy Share
“...if God does not exist and there is no immortality, then all the evil acts of men go unpunished and all the sacrifices of good men go unrewarded. But who can live with such a view? Richard Wurmbrand, who has been tortured for his faith in communist prisons, says, The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe when man has… — William Lane Craig Copy Share
“So how do you find out what God thinks? The Christian says, you look in the Bible. And the Bible tells us that God forbids homosexual acts. Therefore, they are wrong. So basically the reasoning goes like this: (1) We are all obligated to do God’s will. (2) God’s will is expressed in the Bible. (3) The Bible forbids homosexual… — William Lane Craig Copy Share
So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine… — William Lane Craig Copy Share
