Craig's God Cannot Create a Temporal Universe
William Lane Craig's inuential kalam cosmological argument concludes that the universe has a cause of its beginning (the "first cause"). Craig provides some supplementary reasoning to suggest that the first cause is God - a God that exists timelessly without the universe and temporal...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Philosophia Christi
Year: 2021, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 329-340 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | William Lane Craig's inuential kalam cosmological argument concludes that the universe has a cause of its beginning (the "first cause"). Craig provides some supplementary reasoning to suggest that the first cause is God - a God that exists timelessly without the universe and temporally with the universe. I argue that Craig's hypothesis about the nature of the first cause is impossible. In particular, it cannot be the case that God timelessly wills to create the universe and the universe begins to exist. |
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| ISSN: | 1529-1634 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophia Christi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/pc202123227 |