Reasonable Faith Podcast
by William Lane Craig
Reasonable Faith features the work of philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig, discussing the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today. Reasonable Faith aims to to provide an articulate, intelligent voice for biblical Christianity in the public arena, to challenge unbelievers with the truth of biblical Christianity, and to train Christians to state and defend Christian truth claims with greater effectiveness.Visit https://www.reasonablefaith.org for all of our debates, animated short films, interviews and lectures, articles, and more.
Episodes
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All the Arguments Have Been Answered (QoW #1016)
A listener is troubled by the impression that atheists and materialists have already answered every argument for Christianity, and wonders how belief in God is still possible. Dr. Craig responds by drawing a simple but important distinction, and reflects on why so many people feel overwhelmed by...
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Listener Questions: Hell, the Atonement, and Digital Immortality
Dr. Craig answers more listener questions from around the world. If Christ paid for the sins of the lost, is hell a double punishment? Was Jesus really separated from the Father on the cross? Is God’s justice only retributive? Could downloading our consciousness offer a kind of digital immortality?
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Preferability of a World without Suffering (QoW #1015)
A listener asks Dr. Craig to imagine a possible world filled with free persons, love, moral agency, and a genuine relationship with God, but with none of the cancer, war, animal suffering, or death we see in our own. If a world like that is logically possible, what greater good could justify God...
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Listener Questions: Atonement, Deism, and a Skeptic’s Take on Easter
Dr. Craig answers listener questions from around the world. If Christ paid for every sin, why would anyone still face judgment? Could God have made the universe and simply moved on? What should we make of a skeptical historian who says the disciples must have seen something? Plus: when science…
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Christianity on the Back Foot? (QoW #1014)
A listener writes that his faith is hanging in the balance. Wherever he looks, from natural theology to the resurrection, he thinks the scholarly consensus seems to be against Christianity, and online critics accuse Christian thinkers, Dr. Craig included, of intellectual dishonesty. Questions…
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Is William Lane Craig’s Molinism Incoherent? A Reply to Ryan Mullins
Philosophical theologian Ryan Mullins argues that William Lane Craig’s version of Molinism is incoherent, and the charge comes down to one word: deliberation. If God already knows everything, can he really deliberate about which world to create? And if he can’t, is his choice truly free? Dr.…
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What Does It Mean to Say that Some Worlds Are Infeasible for God? (QoW #1013)
If nothing is impossible for God, how can some worlds be “infeasible” for Him? A listener named Howard presses Dr. Craig on a phrase that sounds like a limit on God’s power. Dr. Craig explains the Molinist idea behind it: true counterfactuals about how free creatures would choose narrow the range...
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Eat My Flesh? Baptize My Baby? Dr. Craig Responds to Fr. Mike Schmitz, John Piper, and Kevin DeYoung
A viral clip from Fr. Mike Schmitz claims that Protestants who take Jesus’ words in John 6 seriously end up becoming Catholic. Dr. Craig explains why the bread of life discourse doesn’t require eating Christ’s literal flesh, and why that claim overlooks the many non-Catholic traditions that also...
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Could the Members of the Trinity have Switched Places? (QoW #1012)
If the Son is not eternally begotten of the Father, is it arbitrary which person of the Trinity is called "Father" and which is called "Son"? And what distinguishes the three persons from one another in the first place? Dr. Craig responds to a reader's two worries about his view of the Trinity,...
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Building Bridges to Muslims
In this episode, Dr. Craig provides his argument for God's existence that may also help build relationships with Muslims.
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Atonement and Just Desert (QoW #1011)
Dr. Craig has argued that annihilationism can't be reconciled with penal substitutionary atonement, since Christ was not annihilated on the cross. But a questioner from Spain turns the tables: Jesus didn't suffer eternal conscious punishment either. So is the traditional view of hell in the same...
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Scholarship and the Resurrection of Jesus
In this episode, Dr. William Lane Craig answers questions regarding the resurrection of Jesus. What do scholars say about the empty tomb? What does prominent scholarship on the resurrection tell us? Does the best New Testament research support the facts surrounding the resurrection of Jesus?
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God and the Moment of Creation (QoW #1010)
An undergraduate philosophy student presses Dr. Craig on his view that God exists timelessly without the universe but temporally once creation begins: if God can timelessly bring about a temporal effect like the beginning of time, why couldn't God perform other timeless acts with temporal...
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Frank Turek and the Atheist Student: Why Didn't God Make Us Perfect?
A YouTuber named Jay claims Frank Turek dodged a university student's question: if God is perfect, why didn't He create us perfect rather than flawed? Kevin plays the clips, and Dr. Craig explains why the question is built on confusion. Only God is a perfect being, and God cannot be created, so…
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The Spirit of the Logos? (QoW #1009)
A listener who's been working through Dr. Craig's Systematic Philosophical Theology asks whether it's more accurate to say Jesus Christ is "the Spirit of the Logos" united to a human body, rather than "the soul of the Logos," pointing to passages describing God as spirit and drawing an analogy to...
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Is God Still Around? (QoW #1008)
A listener from the UK argues that the Kalam cosmological argument has a fatal flaw: even if it proves God created the universe, that doesn't prove God still exists today, any more than a house proves its builder is still alive. Dr. Craig responds by pointing to arguments for a metaphysically...
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Apatheism and the Unexamined Life
Journalist Jonathan Rauch's Atlantic essay "Let It Be" argued that apatheism, simply not caring whether God exists, is a mark of civilizational progress, making society safer and less prone to religious conflict. Philosopher Paul Copan disagrees, calling it a sign of decline. Kevin and Dr. Craig...
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Inevitable Sin? (QoW #1007)
A listener writes in with a philosophical challenge to the coherence of Christian doctrine: if God knowingly creates the exact conditions under which people will sin, how can he justly hold them responsible for sinning, and how can Christ's atonement make sense as a remedy for a failure that was...
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Eternal Generation of the Son: Dr. Craig Responds to the Backlash
A clip of Dr. William Lane Craig discussing the eternal generation of the Son went viral a few weeks ago, picked up by Protestia and drawing heresy accusations from across the theological world. In this episode, Kevin puts those criticisms to Dr. Craig directly. Dr. Craig clarifies what he is and...
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Annihilationism and Penal Substitutionary Atonement Once More (QoW #1006)
A reader follows up on an earlier question about annihilationism, asking Dr. Craig to unpack what it means that Christ was "momentarily separated" from the Father on the cross, given that the Trinity is indivisible. Dr. Craig explains this as a relational rather than ontological separation, then...
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Why Not the Beatific Vision Now? (QoW #1005)
A reader asks Dr. Craig why God doesn't just grant humanity the beatific vision, the direct vision of God, right now, if it's the strongest possible evidence for His existence. Dr. Craig explains what the beatific vision is and why giving it to us in this life would strip away our freedom to...
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A Megachurch Pastor's Eight Reasons for Leaving the Faith and Where They Go Wrong
A pastor trained at three seminaries and formerly on staff at a Dallas-area megachurch has said he is now an agnostic atheist, citing eight reasons for his deconversion. Dr. William Lane Craig responds to each, from the genetic fallacy and divine hiddenness to the historical Adam and the problem…
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Bestiality Among Adam and Eve’s Immediate Descendants (QoW #1004)
A listener working through Dr. Craig's book In Quest of the Historical Adam raises a pointed question about the model's implications: if Cain's wife came from outside the Adamic line, among the non-human hominins living alongside Adam and Eve, what would that mean for their children? Dr. Craig...
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Life in the Intermediate State (QoW #1003)
What's it actually like to exist as a disembodied soul in the intermediate state between death and resurrection? A listener writes in with real existential unease about being "unclothed" from the body, and Dr. Craig turns to philosopher H.H. Price's theory that the afterlife might work something...
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N.T. Wright, Francis Collins, and the Historical Adam: William Lane Craig Responds
Francis Collins and N.T. Wright recently fielded audience questions after a public conversation, several of which centered on the historicity of Adam and Eve. Collins argues that population genetics rules out a single ancestral couple, and lays out the model he finds most plausible: a couple...
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Is Beauty an Objective Feature of Reality? (QoW #1002)
A listener from Morocco argues that beauty is like an emotion and not a property of objects, but says that doesn't make it subjective, since he considers emotions like fear objective too. Dr. William Lane Craig agrees aesthetic properties don't inhere in physical things (a chair isn't beautiful...
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Back to School: Preparing Your Kids to Answer Tough Questions
A new school year means a new round of hard questions for your kids about evolution, evil, supposed contradictions in the Bible, whether Jesus really rose from the dead, and why there are so many religions in the world. Kevin and Dr. William Lane Craig talk through ten questions students run into...
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Question from a Hindu Background Believer (QoW #1001)
A listener asks Dr. William Lane Craig how Christianity's dependence on a historical resurrection (unlike Hinduism's Krishna) can be defended, then raises three questions that arise in evangelism: that "eternal life" can't be historically verified, that the NT accounts were written too late to...
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"Seven Heresies of William Lane Craig"? Dr. Craig Fact Checks!
A viral graphic accuses Dr. Craig of seven heresies. From Neo-Apollinarian Christology, his rejection of limited atonement and Calvinism, to his defense of Molinism. Dr. Craig and Kevin go through the list charge by charge, separating genuine ancient heresies from disagreements, and explain what...
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The One-Thousandth Question of the Week (QoW #1000)
Reasonable Faith marks a milestone with its 1,000th Question of the Week and it lands right alongside the ministry's 20th anniversary. This time, William Lane Craig turns the question on himself: what does two decades of Reasonable Faith look like in hindsight? He reflects on explosive growth…
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Annihilation and Atonement (QoW #999)
A listener asks whether annihilation is even a coherent punishment for sin, given that Jesus's atonement on the cross required him to bear that same punishment—and as the eternal Son, he cannot cease to exist. Could God instead offer annihilation as an optional alternative to eternal separation?...
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Paul Davies Wants a ‘Ghost in the Design’ — But Won’t Call It God
Dr. William Lane Craig continues his response to Paul Davies and Emily Qureshi-Hurst by examining some of today's most ambitious attempts to explain the universe without God. He critiques Wheeler's participatory universe, the multiverse, Boltzmann brains, and the search for a mysterious "Option…
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Eschatology and Yet-to-Evolve ETs (QoW #998)
A listener asks whether the eschatological renewal of creation might be delayed billions of years if God's redemptive purposes extend to alien civilizations that haven't yet evolved. Dr. Craig affirms that any extraterrestrial life would indeed be included in God's eschatological plans, but…
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Was the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 the Second Coming of Christ? (QoW #997)
A listener pushes back on Dr. Craig's claim that neither Jesus nor Paul expected the second coming within their own generation. Pointing to Matthew 24:36 and Jesus' words to the disciples about "this generation," and argues that Jesus was predicting a coming in judgment on Jerusalem in A.D. 70…
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Aboutness, Autonomy, and the Missing Option X: Dr. Craig Responds to Davies and Qureshi-Hurst
Can the universe have purpose without a purposive mind? Dr. William Lane Craig responds to physicist Paul Davies and philosopher Emily Qureshi-Hurst as they wrestle with whether purpose is something real or merely something we invent. Along the way he discusses intentionality ("aboutness"), the...
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Unconscious Minds (QoW #996)
A listener argues that 200 mg of propofol extinguishes the mind and not just consciousness. He believes this to be empirical evidence that undercuts belief in surviving death. Dr. Craig rejects the premise that mind equals consciousness, invokes Eccles' pianist analogy to explain why an impaired...
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Non-Belief and Disbelief (QoW #995)
A listener from Canada asks Dr. Craig to sort out three often-conflated terms: nonbelief, disbelief, and belief regarding God's existence. Dr. Craig explains the three doxastic attitudes one can hold toward any proposition, and argues that "disbelief" isn't mere absence of belief but a positive...
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Did Jesus Rise? Can Genesis Be Figurative?
Can Christians interpret Genesis figuratively without compromising biblical authority? Dr. Craig answers questions about the historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection, the literary genre of Genesis 1–11, and how Scripture, science, and philosophy work together in the pursuit of truth.
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Baptism a Cardinal Doctrine? (QoW #994)
A listener named Chris pushes back on Dr. Craig's video "What About Baptism?", where Craig said baptism "is not a cardinal doctrine that need divide us." Chris argues that Galatians teaches only one true gospel — so if baptismal regeneration (the belief that baptism is necessary for salvation) is...
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Is God an Unjust Liar? (QoW #993)
A viewer named Stephen poses a hard question: if a repentant abortionist can be saved on his deathbed and never "pay" for his crimes, doesn't that make God's promise of vengeance and justice a lie? Dr. William Lane Craig responds that the listener has confused justice with grace — the gospel was...
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God or Godish? A Conversation with William Lane Craig and Philip Goff
Philip Goff is a philosopher best known for defending panpsychism — the view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality. He's also, by his own description, a "mildly heretical Christian." In this conversation, Goff and William Lane Craig find surprising common ground on fine-tuning...
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The Debate Over Hell: William Lane Craig Responds to Hellgate
The Hellgate discussion hosted by Kirk Cameron in January 2026 brought together several respected Christian thinkers to wrestle with one of the Bible's most difficult doctrines. It included Gavin Ortlund, Dan Paterson, Chris Date, and Paul Copan. In this episode, Dr. William Lane Craig evaluates...
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The Good, the Bad, the Moral Argument!
Dr. Craig continues his conversation with Dr. David Baggett about their new book Reasonable Moral Faith. About Dr. William Lane Craig William Lane Craig is a philosopher and theologian and the founder of Reasonable Faith. His work spans the existence of God, the Kalam Cosmological Argument, the...
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God, I Never Heard of You!
Dr. Craig answers variations on the common question of the fate of the unevangelized, and also a question on whether the 'new earth' will be too crowded!
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Question of the Week #992: Will There Be a Millennium?
Read this Question of the Week Here: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/will-there-be-a-millennium
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God, Why Don't You Give Me a Call?
Dr. Craig answers questions on hearing from God, the long lifespans in the Old Testament, and whether God can ever lie.
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Question of the Week #991: Formulating the Argument from Fine-Tuning
Read this Question of the Week Here: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/formulating-the-argument-from-fine-tuning
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Is The Moral Argument Reasonable?
The leading expert on the Moral Argument for God, Dr. David Baggett, joins Dr. Craig to discuss their new book Reasonable Moral Faith.
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Question of the Week #990: A Moral but Unbelieving Son
Read this Question of the Week Here: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/a-moral-but-unbelieving-son
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It's Time to Talk About Time, Molinism, and God's Name
All that and a question about morality too!
About this show
Reasonable Faith features the work of philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig, discussing the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today. Reasonable Faith aims to to provide an articulate, intelligent voice for biblical Christianity in the public arena, to challenge unbelievers with the truth of biblical Christianity, and to train Christians to state and defend Christian truth claims with greater effectiveness.Visit https://www.reasonablefaith.org for all of our debates, animated short films, interviews and lectures, articles, and more.
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