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Q&A on the Kalam Cosmological Argument

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

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The Argument of Sound Proves There Must Be an Absolute First Uncorzed Cause Who Is Eternal

Christian theologians take God to be timeless in an unqualified sense. Elliot McCoy from more college asks, if the premises everything has a cause and infinite regress of causes is not possible, are both true. Why can an exception be made for God who is both uncorzed and infinite? Well notice again, that mis formulation of the first premise formulated as everything have a cause. And that's not the premise the premises everything that begins to exist or comes into being has a cause. The Bible is very ambiguous and speaks of God's relationship to time it's unequivocal that God is eternal. But whether that means that God transcends time altogether, or is everlasting throughout time. I think is

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