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Discussion on the Kalam Argument

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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The Causal Principle Is False

There are many possibilities for why the causal principle could be false that don't commit us to thinking that there's just chaos, you know what I mean. For example, Graham Oppie has a causal principle he offers that's that all non-initial things that begin to exist have a cause. But those more restricted versions of the principle don't justify a denial of the broader principle that being cannot come from non-being,. That something cannot come from nothing. And so I wonder, would I be willing to stand before God on the judgment day and God were to say to me, why didn't you believe in me?

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