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