I sincerely practiced several world religions - Judaism (born into), lay Buddhism, Saivism/Hinduism - but Islam never fully appealed to me because of the severely flawed character of Allah. I ended up in Christianity through apologetics, and today, I am a Pentecostal Christian (the Trinity and all core confessions), loving the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit and being kept inspired and in line through the Word of God/the Bible.
I knew WLC was well versed on Islam but I think this is the first time I've heard him talk about it. I need to find out if there's more, this was delightfully matter-of-fact and informed.
Just type in david wood,Apostate prophet, hatun tash,christian prince, Godlogic, ahmedexmuslim,Sam Shamoun, RC- Rob Christian and you will know everything you need to know about Muhammad/Islam. Just be prepared for a mind blowing moment
He has had debates with Muslims in the past, although it never became his area of expertise. David Wood is probably the most informed on Islam, as far as Christian apologists go.
CRYSTAL-CLEAR THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHICALLY-COHERENT, and OVERALL SPOT-ON‼👍🏼 This is actually one of the most straight-shooting and doctrinally sound videos of Bill Craig's I've heard of the hundreds or more available and will go down as one of my all-time favorites because of it's clarity and cultural relevance.
What convinced you that Christianity is the true religion? What convinced you that it is true that God became a human baby and killed by his own creation?
@@Submission. Not by any deductive process. It was organic ... thru interpersonal encounters with other Christians et al. My father's opposition to any faith, my mother's weak faith, my grandparent's Freemasonic faith, my wife's strong faith. My own early explorations with Zen. That got me to early adulthood.
@sion. From Christian practice in early adulthood thru to old age today my own personal faith has grown with many twists and turns. My faith is Christian, yet remains open to wonder.
You have give fair and reasonable description of Ayaan's conversion. I find her personal and philosophical path very interesting, right from the beginning. As I listen to more of her public statements, I am even more convinced that she is a true Christian if an inexperienced one. She has been heading in this direction for a long time, with the usual fluctuations along the way.
@@masterjose8483 I heard testimonies how people were in church considering themselves believers for decades, visiting every Sunday, praying, participating in different activities, and later, came to know Jesus and realized they never were in a real genuine faith until that moment, so yes, it is possible.
One of the things I find interesting is the response from some of the atheist friends of Ayaan's. Dawkins has actually said that Ayaan is one of his dearest friends, but at the same time doesn't believe what she says about her own testimony. Michael Shermer, has done a seemingly serious walk back of some of his own apologetics of the past, acknowledging that *"I'll simply note that both sides have strong arguments"* That can be seen at ~11;30 of the video "Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity" One might be inclined to wonder if Ayaan, having listened to some of the terrible arguments offered by these supposed '"brights" of the atheist community, hasn't come to wonder to herself, if such vacuity can be presented as reasoned thought by the most esteemed of the community, how little do they really have in their arsenal. I'm reminded of Ruse's assessment of Dawkin's book, "Second, unlike the new atheists, I take scholarship seriously. I have written that The God Delusion made me ashamed to be an atheist and I meant it." Please Ayaan, keep seeking.
So Michael thinks that both sides have strong arguments (50-50) but he still turned towards atheism which means that his heart had already betrayed the Lord even before his deconversion.
@@temsumongbajamir1582 *"So Michael thinks that both sides have strong arguments (50-50)"* Giving Shermer every benefit of the doubt, I don't see any admission on his point that he thinks it is a 50-50 proposition. My point is, why did it take a good friend and former teammate, to reject his atheism to admit that there are strong arguments for theism? If I had an audience with Michael, I'd (and I hope Ayaan is doing the same) ask him why, if atheism is as strong a position as he has until now asserted, he has chosen to support it with such vacuous arguments.
My impression is that Dawkins thinks that everyone who believes in a god is an idiot, a really gullible, dumb person with low IQ, and that every atheist is intellectually superior to every theist. I imagine that Dawkins are thinking something along these lines, when he is trying to understand his friend's conversion: Every believing christian is an idiot Ayaan Hersi Ali is not an idiot Thus Ayaan Hersi Ali can't be a christian, even if she claims she is.
It seems not uncommon that people who leave Islam to, at first, anyway; identify-as 'an atheist'. I suspect that that mindset makes disentangling themselves from Islam and their problems, easier.
Not true! Islam currently had a huge problem with apostasy. Muslames abandoning "mohamadanism" for Christianity. Almost 50,000 Muslims deconvert annually.
@@utopiabuster Not sure how you are arguing vs. johnharrison6745's point. Deconverted Muslims seeking a "safe" or "legitimate" (my terms) space in atheism is not mitigated by the vast deconversion phenom. Unless you mean by "deconversion" a conversion to Christianity. That's not always true I know from experience; you both could be correct. One claim apparently does not negate the other. Do I misunderstand you?
Without Lies Islam Dies. It prospered by sword But shall die by internet. I would say WLC was quite lenient on Islam because Sam Shamoun and others are quite straightforward and unforgiving of this type of cult.
It is Christians who lie on islam lol. This guy just spouted bunch of lies. Why don't you ask a Muslim about islam instead of an evangelist with an agender. Spouting lies about Palestinians hatingbjews for being jews instead of hatingbzionist for displacing them lol. It is natural to hate your oppressor. Didn't black slaves hate their masters or call white people the devil??
I ask Allah again and again to Forgive me for my sins and I turn to Allah alone and I repent to Him Praise and Glory be to Allah Who has Favoured me with the faith in islam religion That is a wonderful thing Alhamdolillah
I can't speak for others but those, like me, who adhere to reason, would accept any conclusion based on verifiable evidence. If such deity exists, I'm sure he'd be able to figure out some way of making it clear to all of us. Which brings me to this giant enigma ... why hasn't he? Why did the god of Abraham reveal himself to a tiny minority on a tiny spot on the planet? He couldn't care less for the others? The real question however is, why do you maintain your position despite there's no verifiable evidence? Physics contradicts anything remotely resembling resurrection, yet all it takes for you to dismiss the evidence is [religious] literature of antiquity to profess it really happened. Evolutionary theory is a predictive explanation of descent with modification, backed up by a plethora of empirical evidence, yet you close your eyes to it simply because it doesn't allign with what unknown patriarchs wrote more than 2 millenia ago. What is even more striking is that you for some 'reason' dismiss all the other writings (Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek, Assyrian, Hindu, etcetera) as silly mythology, while your god--who was even one amongst many, as he presided over the assembly of gods--is 'evidently' the only true one (?) I'd even say, how dare you question people that adhere to reason and verifiable evidence when you demonstrably refuse to. So, do you adhere to reason, are you willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads? I don't think so because it would undermine your whole purpose of being. And so your cop out is to accept whatever evidence that doesn't compromise your religious doctrine while dismissing as though it doesn't exist, all the evidence that does--hypocrisy.
WHAT??? "Hell is an expression of God's perfect justice and holiness" That is is utterly absurd. God's justice is restorative and redemptive. “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”
I'm a little disappointed with his treatment of hell here. I'm aware there are those Christian traditions that have described hell as literally full of fire, but I think the more historic Christian view is that hell is the final outworking of our own sin, not an external torture imposed by God (although the particular scripture he quoted might even favor annihilationism).
@@lmcfigs4874 Was that how Jesus described hell though?? Was that what the early church believed hell to be?? Majority of the early church had a traditional view of hell. They associated it with punishment, torment, continuous rebellion and so on.
@@raphaelfeneje486 Jesus used fire and darkness imagery to describe hell (if we assume all of the 'hell' passages are references to the afterlife and not the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD), but we have to ask what He meant by that. I would argue that the bible repeatedly describes God as fire as well as light. God's 'fire' is His love that wants to purge us of all that harms us (i.e. our sin), but if someone shapes their will and desire around sin to a point where they are beyond repentance, then they will experience His love as a tormenting fire. As far as the early church, most of them used the imagery of scripture (fire, darkness, etc.) but we can't assume they had a divine torture chamber in mind. Here are a couple of excerpts from Iranaeus: 'For one and the same God [that blesses others] inflicts blindness upon those who do not believe, but who set Him at naught; just as the sun, which is a creature of His, [acts with regard] to those who, by reason of any weakness of the eyes cannot behold his light; but to those who believe in Him and follow Him, He grants a fuller and greater illumination of mind.’ and ‘But God, foreknowing all things, prepared fit habitations for both, kindly conferring that light which they desire on those who seek after the light of incorruption, and resort to it; but for the despisers and mockers who avoid and turn themselves away from this light, and who do, as it were, blind themselves, He has prepared darkness suitable to persons who oppose the light, and He has inflicted an appropriate punishment upon those who try to avoid being subject to Him.’ Now, I suppose it's possible Iranaeus has a dark torture chamber in mind, but it could also be that he had in mind God simply creating a place for these people to exist in their own self-caused blindness.
Dr. Craig, I’m an avid fan of you as a philosophical theologian. I have always admired your faith and sincerity. But today, I am deeply disappointed with your thoughts and position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the vicious roots of that conflict. As someone who has studied that part of the world, I am saddened by your mis-impressions. I trust that you, as a sincere Christ follower, will look at the evidence and reconsider your thoughts and position even if it goes against evangelical doctrine to support Israel unconditionally explicitly (or implicitly), and even if it goes against conventional comfort to do so.
It is my sincere hope that Dr. Craig continues to be a voice of reason. As an individual who's actually been to that part of the world, I fully support Dr. Craig's position.
I fully support Craig's position. Sorry if you feel disappointed. Islam is a disease and everything done is justified in their religion. Why are the "peaceful" Muslims not condemning it?
I didn’t see Dr Craig express unconditional support for Israel or say that he supports every action Israel has taken. He simply stated that what the Hamas terrorists did in 10/7 was heinous and evil. Do you disagree with that statement? Do you think that Hamas was justified in slaughtering innocents, raping women, tearing children away from mothers?
She wants to bring up her children as Christians. That's a win, even if - and we don't know - she has residual metaphysical doubts - and I agree it's presumptuous to comment.
I think that that is a fair question based, at least, on my reading of her essay. I certainly hope she has genuine faith. It appears she has been influenced by her reading of Tom Holland. Holland himself an agnostic/atheist has interestiingly said, "To believe in human rights requires just as much a leap of faith as believing that the Lord Jesus Christ rose on the third day and ascended into heaven. Both Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer have video responses to Ayaan. I hope that some of her pushback to them would be to ask them, "If atheism is based on such sound reasoning, why have you both offered such vacuous piffle in atheism's defense and against theism?" I'm reminded of Michael Ruse's comment on Dawkins's book, "Second, unlike the new atheists, I take scholarship seriously. I have written that The God Delusion made me ashamed to be an atheist and I meant it."
Nice to see Christians being typically judgmental and intolerant and exclusionary. Too often there's this ridiculous pretense of "open hearts and minds," when we all know you're just cultists.
Ask William Lane Craig about God's love of the Amalekites, and why Christians committed genocide worldwide, and why the Holocaust happened in Christian Europe.
@@Pablo-gl9dj God doesn't exist. There is no such thing as human free will. Human violence is genetically driven and therefore not solved by divine intervention of any sort. God participates in human violence because God is an imagination of humans and used as a means of either commanding or justifying violence.
I totally agree that 9-11 and Muslim attacks are relgious based, but this doesn't negate the position of the existence of blowback as being a part of the equation. US military presence in the Middle East had only exasterbated the problem.
I wonder how Christianity got to America, Canada, Mexico, South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Did the pope send nice letters? I didn't think so!
I see a lot of atheists interested in Christianity only strategically, especially where Islam and secular liberal madness are most evident. Let us do our part as Christians, but expecting sincerity and an open and kind heart from those who created part of the problem they are opposing today is being naive, and emotionally immature.
New Covenant Whole Gospel: Who is now the King of Israel in John 1:49? Is the King of Israel now the Head of the Church, and are we His Body? Why did God allow the Romans to destroy the Old Covenant temple and the Old Covenant city, about 40 years after His Son fulfilled the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34 in blood at Calvary? What the modern Church needs is a New Covenant Revival (Heb. 9:10) in which members of various denominations are willing to re-examine everything they believe and see if it agrees with the Bible, instead of the traditions of men. We need to be like the Bereans. It will be a battle between our flesh and the Holy Spirit. It will not be easy. If you get mad and upset when someone challenges your man-made Bible doctrines, that is your flesh resisting the truth found in God's Word. Nobody can completely understand the Bible unless they understand the relationship between the Old Covenant given to Moses at Mount Sinai and the New Covenant fulfilled in blood at Calvary. What brings all local churches together into one Body under the blood of Christ? The answer is found below. Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him. He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14. Awaken Church to this truth. Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by husband unto them, saith the LORD: Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? What did Paul say about Genesis 12:3 in Galatians 3:8, 3:16? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis? Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart. Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36) We are not come to Mount Sinai in Hebrews 12:18. We are come instead to the New Covenant church of Mount Zion and the blood in Hebrews 12:22-24. 1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 1Jn 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. The following verses prove the Holy Spirit is the master teacher for those now in the New Covenant. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Mar 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Act 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Watch the RUclips videos “The New Covenant” by David Wilkerson, or Bob George, and David H.J. Gay.
I read her article. There's not one word where she attests to the Christian doctrine of resurrection, salvation, etcetera. So, is it that simple to become a Christian ... just write an article and say "Hi ya'll, guess what, I'm a Christian."?
She only a christian because she know the christians will fund everything. I have seen her discussion with dawkins and nowhere does she as proclaim the christian faith. Only the feeling
Russell is widely overestimated. The loved the Soviet Union like Durante, at his death there was a Stalin bust on his mantelpiece. His essays are ok, his literature is unreadable.
I exchanged a few messages with her a month or so ago on her foundation page, I personally would not have come to the conclusion from our discussion that she was saved at all.i know she is married to a man she was having an affair with Susan Douglas was his first wife I think , he is a rich man cant remember her name.
Now I'm hoping she brings her husband (historian Niall Ferguson) and kids along with her to faith. ...Another interesting development has been Richard Dawkins' recent disclosure why he refuses to debate Bill Craig. ruclips.net/video/RgApebXSSnM/видео.html
In the full video of the interview or Richard Dawkins by Alex O'Connor, I made the following comment, Richard purports to adore Ayaan and I presume to think himself her friend. An odd friendship that acknowledges at ~1;30 ish Ayaan saying, "I believe in it. I am a Christian." and less than 2 minutes later Richard saying about her, (~3;20ish) "I suspect that she doesn't really believe any of that."
Imagine thinking this is a win for your side when she doesnt evene believe any of the core tenants of the faith..... she is doing this out of convenience
WLC needs to talk to Palestinian Christians. He’s biased as to the politics though correct about Islam. This seems to be a common bias among most evangelicals except those of us who know what our Palestinian Christian brethren are enduring.
If he’s biased against his fellow Christians why would you assume that he’s right about Islam? People need to stop allowing others to do the thinking and reading for them. I would rather read about every single text on a matter than just following the crowd or so called experts .
@@abdelqanimohammed995 Two truths are always compatible, friend. The Zionist state is a lawless, oppressive nation and Islam is a heretical movement that cannot defend itself against the record of history or against the Bible, which is God’s word. David Wood, for some reason, has incorrectly reasoned, that affirming the rhetoric of the Zionist state by denying the Palestinian people’s identity is a good measure against Islam because so many Palestinians are Muslim. This is serious error, not just because some Palestinians are Christians but because no Christian should ever use a lie to advance his cause, not even a good cause. The apostle of Jesus, Paul, says, “Let God be true and every man a liar.” Two truths stand side by side: the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ and the injustice and oppression inflicted upon the Palestinian people by the Zionist state. I pray your eyes will be opened to see the true Jesus of the Bible, not the lateborn invention called Isa in your so-called Scriptures. There is no redemption in Islam. Repent and turn to Jesus lest you perish in your sins and find yourself without a Justifier on Judgment Day. 🙏🏼
Hamas is supported by the overwhelming majority of the "Palestinian" people. The group they politically supported started the mess October 7th and are crying victim now. The Jewish people simply want to exist in peace but when you poke the bear don't cry righteous indignation when you get your butt handed to you.
Hamas is supported by the overwhelming majority of the "Palestinian" people. The group they politically supported started the mess October 7th and are crying victim now. The Jewish people simply want to exist in peace but when you poke the bear don't cry righteous indignation.
@@beadoll8025 You have a very selective reading of history, to say the least. First, Israelis are not all of "the Jewish people" and there are a lot of Jewish people who are against Israel's policies. Second, Gaza has been suffering since 2006 under "peaceful" Israel's oppressive actions, while "peaceful" Israel violates international law and continually takes Palestinian territory illegally. You are greatly mistaken and quite naive.
12:00 its stranger than that. recreate Allah recreates The Universe Every Moment. Thee is no reason Why Allah couldn't do it differently H/T "The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis" Robert R. Reilly
William Lane Craig and Ayann Hirsi Ali in the same video? This is going to be interesting! What we should also put in the back of our minds, which are just some facts, is that in addition to having come to Christs from her previous state, Ayann was also one half of the dynamic of causing the historian Naill Ferguson to leave his original wife and children. This is just a fact that we as Christians should be attentive to. On the one hand I have set my personal internet connections to maximize connection to what Naill and Ayann have to say, and on the other hand recognize that they both happen to be adulterers. What to do?
Although sounding quite cliché; “Ye who are without sin, cast the first stone” If we have no grace, we deserve no grace. Time will reveal the truth of Aayan’s “conversion”. Be gracious and patient. God will show us the truth. In the mean time pray for both of them and rejoice that the Lord is so faithful with His word.
She isn’t convinced by your cult. She needed an emotional crutch and thought it would be a convenient political tool, so she “chooses to believe” in some Low Bar -Bill- mental gymnastics that are so bankrupt, I can see why this channel latches on to this narrative…
I've lost all respect for craig. Pinning the blame on Islam when Israel regularly violates international law. Criticizing Islam for a concept of hell that's been directly plagiarized from the bible itself.
As a Christian who came by faith as a matter of logic and reason, I'm certain that those who sincerely seek truth walk the best path Jesus laid out for them. Every journey starts with a single step in the right direction.
@@utopiabuster Hilarious. If you got there by "logic and reason," you should be able to clearly explain how. Go ahead. And if I then find gaping holes in your "logic" that you somehow didn't notice, I assume you'll deconvert, since it's all a logical, rational process.
@johanericsson2403 , I don't have to explain anything to you! If you're able to formulate a question that I consider sincere and legitimate, I'll respond in kind. Until then, go play with your classmates. Thanks for playing unworthy.
We now have to hope that William Lane Craig will also be converted to Christ! At the moment the Evangelical Christianity he espouses is some weird late modern distortion of the Christian faith that effectively believes in tritheism (but calls it "trinity") and human sacrifice in order to appease the wrath of an angry deity (penal substitution). That is not the Christian faith; its a sad parody.
WLC is not a tritheist. He holds that there is one God who is three persons. That is what mainstream Christianity holds. Also penal substitution is also a very common held view in the church.
@@EchoP7596 I am aware that WL Craig thinks that he is not a tritheist and that he holds that there is "one God who is three persons". My point, however, is that his trinitarian philosophy is 'orthodox' in name but in reality is heretical. He holds that there are three person each of whom is a centre of consciousness and will and then he tries to make this cohere with monotheism. My contention is that this model is not monotheistic but tritheistic, however much he tries to avoid that conclusion. There are lots of theologians and philosophers who think the same with respect to all social models of the Trinity, which is what Craig's model is. You tell me: how is there one God if there are three divine persons, each of whom is an individual centre of consciousness and will?
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I sincerely practiced several world religions - Judaism (born into), lay Buddhism, Saivism/Hinduism - but Islam never fully appealed to me because of the severely flawed character of Allah. I ended up in Christianity through apologetics, and today, I am a Pentecostal Christian (the Trinity and all core confessions), loving the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit and being kept inspired and in line through the Word of God/the Bible.
As a ex Muslim converted Christian myself from Pakistan I am so happy she accepted Jesus Christ her Lord and savior God bless her ✝️❤️🙏
Never heard WLC so straight forward about Islam
Didn’t hold back at all
That's debatable
I just watched a debate from 14years ago where she was atheist. Amazing to see the turnaround!❤
There is no turnaround. She converted to "Judeo-Christianity" because she thinks it will help her defeat liberals and Muslims LOL.
I knew WLC was well versed on Islam but I think this is the first time I've heard him talk about it. I need to find out if there's more, this was delightfully matter-of-fact and informed.
He debated against Shabir Ally, as a matter of fact.
@@johnharrison6745 I'll have to revisit that, hopefully the topic is conducive to WLC expounding on Islam, not just defending Christianity.
Yes, here he was openly honest that, that religion is just evil. No sugarcoating.
Just type in david wood,Apostate prophet, hatun tash,christian prince, Godlogic, ahmedexmuslim,Sam Shamoun, RC- Rob Christian and you will know everything you need to know about Muhammad/Islam. Just be prepared for a mind blowing moment
He has had debates with Muslims in the past, although it never became his area of expertise. David Wood is probably the most informed on Islam, as far as Christian apologists go.
CRYSTAL-CLEAR THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHICALLY-COHERENT, and OVERALL SPOT-ON‼👍🏼
This is actually one of the most straight-shooting and doctrinally sound videos of Bill Craig's I've heard of the hundreds or more available and will go down as one of my all-time favorites because of it's clarity and cultural relevance.
I started conversion to Christianity as an adult. My faith has continued to grow in the decades since.
What convinced you that Christianity is the true religion? What convinced you that it is true that God became a human baby and killed by his own creation?
@@Submission. Not by any deductive process. It was organic ... thru interpersonal encounters with other Christians et al. My father's opposition to any faith, my mother's weak faith, my grandparent's Freemasonic faith, my wife's strong faith. My own early explorations with Zen. That got me to early adulthood.
@sion. From Christian practice in early adulthood thru to old age today my own personal faith has grown with many twists and turns. My faith is Christian, yet remains open to wonder.
I am joyful, that this courageous lady, who I have appreciated, and learned from for around twenty years, has accepted Jesus Christ into her life. 🙏
Blessings from Montreal Canada
You have give fair and reasonable description of Ayaan's conversion. I find her personal and philosophical path very interesting, right from the beginning. As I listen to more of her public statements, I am even more convinced that she is a true Christian if an inexperienced one. She has been heading in this direction for a long time, with the usual fluctuations along the way.
Welcome home Ayaan
She is not home. She is not born again, At least not yet.
@nikokapanen82 i have a question can you be years in christianity like 10,20 9r even 50 years without being born again?
@@nikokapanen82 LOL thanks for that. "Yeah, not welcome home, you don't meet my criteria."
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I heard testimonies how people were in church considering themselves believers for decades, visiting every Sunday, praying, participating in different activities, and later, came to know Jesus and realized they never were in a real genuine faith until that moment, so yes, it is possible.
One of the things I find interesting is the response from some of the atheist friends of Ayaan's. Dawkins has actually said that Ayaan is one of his dearest friends, but at the same time doesn't believe what she says about her own testimony.
Michael Shermer, has done a seemingly serious walk back of some of his own apologetics of the past, acknowledging that *"I'll simply note that both sides have strong arguments"*
That can be seen at ~11;30 of the video "Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity"
One might be inclined to wonder if Ayaan, having listened to some of the terrible arguments offered by these supposed '"brights" of the atheist community, hasn't come to wonder to herself, if such vacuity can be presented as reasoned thought by the most esteemed of the community, how little do they really have in their arsenal.
I'm reminded of Ruse's assessment of Dawkin's book, "Second, unlike the new atheists, I take scholarship seriously. I have written that The God Delusion made me ashamed to be an atheist and I meant it."
Please Ayaan, keep seeking.
She lied about her background before to get Dutch citizenship and is also a homewrecker, wouldn't surprise me if she's lying again.
So Michael thinks that both sides have strong arguments (50-50) but he still turned towards atheism which means that his heart had already betrayed the Lord even before his deconversion.
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*"So Michael thinks that both sides have strong arguments (50-50)"*
Giving Shermer every benefit of the doubt, I don't see any admission on his point that he thinks it is a 50-50 proposition.
My point is, why did it take a good friend and former teammate, to reject his atheism to admit that there are strong arguments for theism? If I had an audience with Michael, I'd (and I hope Ayaan is doing the same) ask him why, if atheism is as strong a position as he has until now asserted, he has chosen to support it with such vacuous arguments.
Atheists only accept their own testimony, particularly if they are ex-Christians.
My impression is that Dawkins thinks that everyone who believes in a god is an idiot, a really gullible, dumb person with low IQ, and that every atheist is intellectually superior to every theist. I imagine that Dawkins are thinking something along these lines, when he is trying to understand his friend's conversion:
Every believing christian is an idiot
Ayaan Hersi Ali is not an idiot
Thus Ayaan Hersi Ali can't be a christian, even if she claims she is.
It seems not uncommon that people who leave Islam to, at first, anyway; identify-as 'an atheist'. I suspect that that mindset makes disentangling themselves from Islam and their problems, easier.
Not true!
Islam currently had a huge problem with apostasy. Muslames abandoning "mohamadanism" for Christianity. Almost 50,000 Muslims deconvert annually.
@@utopiabuster Not sure how you are arguing vs. johnharrison6745's point. Deconverted Muslims seeking a "safe" or "legitimate" (my terms) space in atheism is not mitigated by the vast deconversion phenom. Unless you mean by "deconversion" a conversion to Christianity. That's not always true I know from experience; you both could be correct. One claim apparently does not negate the other. Do I misunderstand you?
Good observation.
Without Lies
Islam Dies.
It prospered by sword
But shall die by internet.
I would say WLC was quite lenient on Islam because Sam Shamoun and others are quite straightforward and unforgiving of this type of cult.
But what about the millions of western people embracing Islam ... Everyone know Ayan is being paid for what she is doing
You will never see a Muslim scholar convented to Christianity but we always see Christian scholars converting to Islam ..
Why di Christians lie about Islam lol. This William Craig is a stone cold liar lol. Just spreading bunch of lies about islam
It is Christians who lie on islam lol. This guy just spouted bunch of lies. Why don't you ask a Muslim about islam instead of an evangelist with an agender.
Spouting lies about Palestinians hatingbjews for being jews instead of hatingbzionist for displacing them lol. It is natural to hate your oppressor. Didn't black slaves hate their masters or call white people the devil??
I ask Allah again and again to Forgive me for my sins and I turn to Allah alone and I repent to Him
Praise and Glory be to Allah Who has Favoured me with the faith in islam religion
That is a wonderful thing
Alhamdolillah
Amen to the Word !
My question for atheists has always been if you were given unquestionable proof of that God exists and loves humanity, would you accept that truth?
I can't speak for others but those, like me, who adhere to reason, would accept any conclusion based on verifiable evidence. If such deity exists, I'm sure he'd be able to figure out some way of making it clear to all of us.
Which brings me to this giant enigma ... why hasn't he? Why did the god of Abraham reveal himself to a tiny minority on a tiny spot on the planet? He couldn't care less for the others?
The real question however is, why do you maintain your position despite there's no verifiable evidence?
Physics contradicts anything remotely resembling resurrection, yet all it takes for you to dismiss the evidence is [religious] literature of antiquity to profess it really happened. Evolutionary theory is a predictive explanation of descent with modification, backed up by a plethora of empirical evidence, yet you close your eyes to it simply because it doesn't allign with what unknown patriarchs wrote more than 2 millenia ago.
What is even more striking is that you for some 'reason' dismiss all the other writings (Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek, Assyrian, Hindu, etcetera) as silly mythology, while your god--who was even one amongst many, as he presided over the assembly of gods--is 'evidently' the only true one (?)
I'd even say, how dare you question people that adhere to reason and verifiable evidence when you demonstrably refuse to. So, do you adhere to reason, are you willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads? I don't think so because it would undermine your whole purpose of being. And so your cop out is to accept whatever evidence that doesn't compromise your religious doctrine while dismissing as though it doesn't exist, all the evidence that does--hypocrisy.
Wow, with these kind of commentaries, Dr. Craig in never going to get his Houris at this rate!
WHAT??? "Hell is an expression of God's perfect justice and holiness" That is is utterly absurd. God's justice is restorative and redemptive. “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”
I'm a little disappointed with his treatment of hell here. I'm aware there are those Christian traditions that have described hell as literally full of fire, but I think the more historic Christian view is that hell is the final outworking of our own sin, not an external torture imposed by God (although the particular scripture he quoted might even favor annihilationism).
Final outworking of our sins. What does that mean??
@@raphaelfeneje486 being full of shame over them
@@lmcfigs4874 Was that how Jesus described hell though?? Was that what the early church believed hell to be?? Majority of the early church had a traditional view of hell. They associated it with punishment, torment, continuous rebellion and so on.
My shame at having sinned seems like a good and healthy and right response. It seems unlikely that any such thing will happen in hell.
@@raphaelfeneje486 Jesus used fire and darkness imagery to describe hell (if we assume all of the 'hell' passages are references to the afterlife and not the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD), but we have to ask what He meant by that. I would argue that the bible repeatedly describes God as fire as well as light. God's 'fire' is His love that wants to purge us of all that harms us (i.e. our sin), but if someone shapes their will and desire around sin to a point where they are beyond repentance, then they will experience His love as a tormenting fire.
As far as the early church, most of them used the imagery of scripture (fire, darkness, etc.) but we can't assume they had a divine torture chamber in mind.
Here are a couple of excerpts from Iranaeus: 'For one and the same God [that blesses others] inflicts blindness upon those who do not believe, but who
set Him at naught; just as the sun, which is a creature of His, [acts with regard] to those who, by reason of
any weakness of the eyes cannot behold his light; but to those who believe in Him and follow Him, He
grants a fuller and greater illumination of mind.’
and
‘But God, foreknowing all things, prepared fit habitations for both, kindly conferring that light which they
desire on those who seek after the light of incorruption, and resort to it; but for the despisers and mockers
who avoid and turn themselves away from this light, and who do, as it were, blind themselves, He has
prepared darkness suitable to persons who oppose the light, and He has inflicted an appropriate punishment
upon those who try to avoid being subject to Him.’
Now, I suppose it's possible Iranaeus has a dark torture chamber in mind, but it could also be that he had in mind God simply creating a place for these people to exist in their own self-caused blindness.
Dr. Craig, I’m an avid fan of you as a philosophical theologian. I have always admired your faith and sincerity. But today, I am deeply disappointed with your thoughts and position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the vicious roots of that conflict. As someone who has studied that part of the world, I am saddened by your mis-impressions. I trust that you, as a sincere Christ follower, will look at the evidence and reconsider your thoughts and position even if it goes against evangelical doctrine to support Israel unconditionally explicitly (or implicitly), and even if it goes against conventional comfort to do so.
It is my sincere hope that Dr. Craig continues to be a voice of reason.
As an individual who's actually been to that part of the world, I fully support Dr. Craig's position.
I fully support Craig's position. Sorry if you feel disappointed. Islam is a disease and everything done is justified in their religion. Why are the "peaceful" Muslims not condemning it?
I didn’t see Dr Craig express unconditional support for Israel or say that he supports every action Israel has taken. He simply stated that what the Hamas terrorists did in 10/7 was heinous and evil. Do you disagree with that statement? Do you think that Hamas was justified in slaughtering innocents, raping women, tearing children away from mothers?
@@utopiabuster He is the voice of reason on some topics but not all
@@elgatofelix8917,
Generalizations are fallacious.
Please be specific.
I'm genuinely intrigued.
I see my comments which are not pro-WLC but very carefully within any possible interpretation of community guidelines are being hidden. How Reasonable
We haven't hidden your comments. - RF Admin
She wants to bring up her children as Christians. That's a win, even if - and we don't know - she has residual metaphysical doubts - and I agree it's presumptuous to comment.
"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool."
Voltaire
Does her conversion mean repentance and faith in the Gospel?
I think that that is a fair question based, at least, on my reading of her essay. I certainly hope she has genuine faith. It appears she has been influenced by her reading of Tom Holland.
Holland himself an agnostic/atheist has interestiingly said, "To believe in human rights requires just as much a leap of faith as believing that the Lord Jesus Christ rose on the third day and ascended into heaven.
Both Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer have video responses to Ayaan. I hope that some of her pushback to them would be to ask them, "If atheism is based on such sound reasoning, why have you both offered such vacuous piffle in atheism's defense and against theism?"
I'm reminded of Michael Ruse's comment on Dawkins's book,
"Second, unlike the new atheists, I take scholarship seriously. I have written that The God Delusion made me ashamed to be an atheist and I meant it."
@@SomethingClever413 Absolutely my friend and so does the salvation of all. Romans 10:9-10
Nice to see Christians being typically judgmental and intolerant and exclusionary. Too often there's this ridiculous pretense of "open hearts and minds," when we all know you're just cultists.
Christianity is love and loves what is evil.
Praise God there's nothing He cannot do.
Except, say, stopping the genocide and female genital mutilation in the first place. But I suppose all of that was just to "prepare" her. smh
Ask William Lane Craig about God's love of the Amalekites, and why Christians committed genocide worldwide, and why the Holocaust happened in Christian Europe.
Why don't you explain it for us?
@@Pablo-gl9dj God doesn't exist. There is no such thing as human free will. Human violence is genetically driven and therefore not solved by divine intervention of any sort. God participates in human violence because God is an imagination of humans and used as a means of either commanding or justifying violence.
I totally agree that 9-11 and Muslim attacks are relgious based, but this doesn't negate the position of the existence of blowback as being a part of the equation.
US military presence in the Middle East had only exasterbated the problem.
Ayan hooyadeed isku magaalo ayaan deganahay magaceedu magalada waa xingalool waxaay iisheegtay gabdh haysa oo ay habaryar utahay in aanay xirir lahayn ayan iyo hooyadeed ayaaney hadad fariinatayda hesho hooyadaa sariir bay saarantahay waana waayeel xiriri xirirkii waalidnimo waayo waa kudhashay
I wonder how Christianity got to America, Canada, Mexico, South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Did the pope send nice letters? I didn't think so!
I see a lot of atheists interested in Christianity only strategically, especially where Islam and secular liberal madness are most evident. Let us do our part as Christians, but expecting sincerity and an open and kind heart from those who created part of the problem they are opposing today is being naive, and emotionally immature.
New Covenant Whole Gospel:
Who is now the King of Israel in John 1:49? Is the King of Israel now the Head of the Church, and are we His Body? Why did God allow the Romans to destroy the Old Covenant temple and the Old Covenant city, about 40 years after His Son fulfilled the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34 in blood at Calvary?
What the modern Church needs is a New Covenant Revival (Heb. 9:10) in which members of various denominations are willing to re-examine everything they believe and see if it agrees with the Bible, instead of the traditions of men. We need to be like the Bereans. It will be a battle between our flesh and the Holy Spirit. It will not be easy. If you get mad and upset when someone challenges your man-made Bible doctrines, that is your flesh resisting the truth found in God's Word. Nobody can completely understand the Bible unless they understand the relationship between the Old Covenant given to Moses at Mount Sinai and the New Covenant fulfilled in blood at Calvary. What brings all local churches together into one Body under the blood of Christ? The answer is found below.
Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him.
He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14. Awaken Church to this truth.
Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? What did Paul say about Genesis 12:3 in Galatians 3:8, 3:16? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis?
Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart.
Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36)
We are not come to Mount Sinai in Hebrews 12:18. We are come instead to the New Covenant church of Mount Zion and the blood in Hebrews 12:22-24.
1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
1Jn 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
The following verses prove the Holy Spirit is the master teacher for those now in the New Covenant.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Mar 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Act 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Watch the RUclips videos “The New Covenant” by David Wilkerson, or Bob George, and David H.J. Gay.
Reed thé Book of Martin Ling's Seerah of the Prophet ﷺ.
I have read it.
She has gone from one type of iron age myths to no myth and then to another myth. Where next?????
Stop following quack history.
Myth?
I read her article. There's not one word where she attests to the Christian doctrine of resurrection, salvation, etcetera. So, is it that simple to become a Christian ... just write an article and say "Hi ya'll, guess what, I'm a Christian."?
Christian converts keep saying that they came to Christ. That is completely backwards.
She only a christian because she know the christians will fund everything. I have seen her discussion with dawkins and nowhere does she as proclaim the christian faith. Only the feeling
Russell is widely overestimated. The loved the Soviet Union like Durante, at his death there was a Stalin bust on his mantelpiece. His essays are ok, his literature is unreadable.
I exchanged a few messages with her a month or so ago on her foundation page, I personally would not have come to the conclusion from our discussion that she was saved at all.i know she is married to a man she was having an affair with Susan Douglas was his first wife I think , he is a rich man cant remember her name.
Now I'm hoping she brings her husband (historian Niall Ferguson) and kids along with her to faith. ...Another interesting development has been Richard Dawkins' recent disclosure why he refuses to debate Bill Craig. ruclips.net/video/RgApebXSSnM/видео.html
In the full video of the interview or Richard Dawkins by Alex O'Connor, I made the following comment,
Richard purports to adore Ayaan and I presume to think himself her friend.
An odd friendship that acknowledges at ~1;30 ish Ayaan saying, "I believe in it. I am a Christian." and less than 2 minutes later Richard saying about her, (~3;20ish) "I suspect that she doesn't really believe any of that."
Imagine thinking this is a win for your side when she doesnt evene believe any of the core tenants of the faith..... she is doing this out of convenience
Have you challenged our core tenants and found success?
@@koppite9600 I don't see how your question is relevant to my comment
@@MLamar0612
It is not.
WLC needs to talk to Palestinian Christians. He’s biased as to the politics though correct about Islam. This seems to be a common bias among most evangelicals except those of us who know what our Palestinian Christian brethren are enduring.
If he’s biased against his fellow Christians why would you assume that he’s right about Islam? People need to stop allowing others to do the thinking and reading for them. I would rather read about every single text on a matter than just following the crowd or so called experts .
@@abdelqanimohammed995 Two truths are always compatible, friend. The Zionist state is a lawless, oppressive nation and Islam is a heretical movement that cannot defend itself against the record of history or against the Bible, which is God’s word. David Wood, for some reason, has incorrectly reasoned, that affirming the rhetoric of the Zionist state by denying the Palestinian people’s identity is a good measure against Islam because so many Palestinians are Muslim. This is serious error, not just because some Palestinians are Christians but because no Christian should ever use a lie to advance his cause, not even a good cause. The apostle of Jesus, Paul, says, “Let God be true and every man a liar.” Two truths stand side by side: the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ and the injustice and oppression inflicted upon the Palestinian people by the Zionist state. I pray your eyes will be opened to see the true Jesus of the Bible, not the lateborn invention called Isa in your so-called Scriptures. There is no redemption in Islam. Repent and turn to Jesus lest you perish in your sins and find yourself without a Justifier on Judgment Day. 🙏🏼
Hamas is supported by the overwhelming majority of the "Palestinian" people. The group they politically supported started the mess October 7th and are crying victim now. The Jewish people simply want to exist in peace but when you poke the bear don't cry righteous indignation when you get your butt handed to you.
Hamas is supported by the overwhelming majority of the "Palestinian" people. The group they politically supported started the mess October 7th and are crying victim now. The Jewish people simply want to exist in peace but when you poke the bear don't cry righteous indignation.
@@beadoll8025 You have a very selective reading of history, to say the least. First, Israelis are not all of "the Jewish people" and there are a lot of Jewish people who are against Israel's policies. Second, Gaza has been suffering since 2006 under "peaceful" Israel's oppressive actions, while "peaceful" Israel violates international law and continually takes Palestinian territory illegally. You are greatly mistaken and quite naive.
12:00 its stranger than that. recreate Allah recreates The Universe Every Moment. Thee is no reason Why Allah couldn't do it differently
H/T "The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis" Robert R. Reilly
Christianity is no longer the religion of Jesus rather a religion about Jesus. Jesus lord, Savior etc. Was Jesus a practicing Jew?
Go therefore baptise all nations in The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
Is that practicing Jew?
William Lane Craig and Ayann Hirsi Ali in the same video? This is going to be interesting!
What we should also put in the back of our minds, which are just some facts, is that in addition to having come to Christs from her previous state, Ayann was also one half of the dynamic of causing the historian Naill Ferguson to leave his original wife and children. This is just a fact that we as Christians should be attentive to.
On the one hand I have set my personal internet connections to maximize connection to what Naill and Ayann have to say, and on the other hand recognize that they both happen to be adulterers. What to do?
Although sounding quite cliché; “Ye who are without sin, cast the first stone”
If we have no grace, we deserve no grace.
Time will reveal the truth of Aayan’s “conversion”.
Be gracious and patient. God will show us the truth. In the mean time pray for both of them and rejoice that the Lord is so faithful with His word.
Thanks for the reply. Point well taken. I'll have to consider if prudential judgement requires that I delete this comment.@@redscorpio450
She isn’t convinced by your cult. She needed an emotional crutch and thought it would be a convenient political tool, so she “chooses to believe” in some Low Bar -Bill- mental gymnastics that are so bankrupt, I can see why this channel latches on to this narrative…
I've never seen WLC so intellectually dishonest!
If his mouth is open, he is consciously lying. WLC is one of the MOST dishonest theologians-for-profit on the circuit.
Ayaan who?
she's a well known person
I've lost all respect for craig. Pinning the blame on Islam when Israel regularly violates international law. Criticizing Islam for a concept of hell that's been directly plagiarized from the bible itself.
she converted because of politics not because she actually believes in christianity 💀
It is a little unclear until we know more of her testimony. Even on pragmatic grounds, Christianity can be attractive.
I don't think we know that. Politics and culture could have lead her to a moment of conversion. We just don't know.
As a Christian who came by faith as a matter of logic and reason, I'm certain that those who sincerely seek truth walk the best path Jesus laid out for them.
Every journey starts with a single step in the right direction.
@@utopiabuster Hilarious. If you got there by "logic and reason," you should be able to clearly explain how. Go ahead. And if I then find gaping holes in your "logic" that you somehow didn't notice, I assume you'll deconvert, since it's all a logical, rational process.
@johanericsson2403 ,
I don't have to explain anything to you!
If you're able to formulate a question that I consider sincere and legitimate, I'll respond in kind.
Until then, go play with your classmates.
Thanks for playing unworthy.
We now have to hope that William Lane Craig will also be converted to Christ! At the moment the Evangelical Christianity he espouses is some weird late modern distortion of the Christian faith that effectively believes in tritheism (but calls it "trinity") and human sacrifice in order to appease the wrath of an angry deity (penal substitution). That is not the Christian faith; its a sad parody.
WLC is not a tritheist. He holds that there is one God who is three persons. That is what mainstream Christianity holds. Also penal substitution is also a very common held view in the church.
@@EchoP7596 I am aware that WL Craig thinks that he is not a tritheist and that he holds that there is "one God who is three persons". My point, however, is that his trinitarian philosophy is 'orthodox' in name but in reality is heretical. He holds that there are three person each of whom is a centre of consciousness and will and then he tries to make this cohere with monotheism. My contention is that this model is not monotheistic but tritheistic, however much he tries to avoid that conclusion. There are lots of theologians and philosophers who think the same with respect to all social models of the Trinity, which is what Craig's model is. You tell me: how is there one God if there are three divine persons, each of whom is an individual centre of consciousness and will?