Common Confusions About God's Attributes
Description
How can God be omniscient and yet not know what it is like to sin?
How can God be a necessary being?
How can God be omnipresent and yet be particularly located in places like the temple?
Sean McDowell interviews Dr. Craig on some of the common confusions he tackles in Volume IIa of his Systematic Philosophical Theology: On God: Attributes of God.
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00:00 - Intro
01:06 - If God is incorporeal or immaterial, why does the Bible make it sounds like God has a body?
04:14 - How can God be a necessary being?
07:45 - If God is self-existence, are any other entities besides God necessary and uncreated?
13:13 - Is "simplicity" a biblically supported attribute of God? Does he have properties?
16:52 - How can God be omniscient if he doesn't know what it is like to sin?
21:55 - Dangers of analytic philosophy
24:08 - Is God's foreknowledge compatible with human freewill?
31:05 - God and time: timeless, temporal, omni-temporal?
37:00 - Is God spaceless or everywhere throughout space?
43:10 - How is it that God is omnipotent, but still unable to do certain things?
48:36 - God's goodness, love, and justice
55:30 - Dr. Craig's favorite attribute to study
57:00 - Why is the doctrine of God so difficult to deal with?
58:55 - Molinist roots
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