Shadee Elmasry – William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument Exposed
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The speaker discusses William Lane Craig's argument that God is contingent and that everything that occurs in time has a cause. He uses a formulation of the Kalam opinion that supports his belief, but his argument does not include the idea that God is contingent. The speaker uses a pages of a synopses to explain the argument.
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William Lane Craig, he is a Christian, which means that he is
committed to the idea that God is contingent, and he came into the
universe. So when he makes the Kalam Cosmological Argument, he
makes it in a way that supports his belief. The way that the
Muslims made it, this conclusion is unthinkable. But William Lane
Craig, he makes this argument. He has a famous formulation of it. He
says that the universe began to exist. Everything that begins to
exist has a cause. Therefore, the universe has a cause for its
existence. And he says that causes supernatural, but he doesn't say
that that causes unnecessary being he doesn't go there. And then with
the Kalamoon, what they do is when they make this argument, they
return it at the end to the contingency argument, but because
William Lane Craig doesn't do that, it allows him to say as he
does in his 100 150 page paper, he makes an argument he says that
this God after creating the universe enters into time