Cadbury Lectures 2015. 6: 'Kalam Cosmological Argument' delivered by Professor William Lane Craig

Public lecture on the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God delivered by Professor William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University; PhD University of Birmingham 1977). Hosted by the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham.
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[@LogicAndReason2025]

Kalam: Existence cannot come from non-existence. Theists claim a god exists, which is therefore impossible by the previous. If theists claim a god has always existed, then non-theists can equally claim the substance and/or potential of all existence, has always existed. If something cannot come from nothing, then god is nothing and therefore imaginary. Kalam refutes itself.

[@aliceclarke2353]

No, God is no thing not nothing. Giving God 'thingness' is a mistake as God is not a thing. God is also self causal.

[@Anskurshaikh]

A 'substance' that has always existed would have the same characteristics as God which is what The Kalam Cosmological Argument illustrates. If you concede that there is something that has always existed, then logically that something is God itself.
Thus, you didn't understand the Kalam argument in the first place.