We’re on the final stretch of the review, and Craig’s (rather gross) view of salvation, grace, and God comes to the front… “Thus everything which happens comes to pass either by the will or by the permission of God. God wills every good thing directly, and his desire for us is that in whatever circumstances [...]

The portion will build off of the last, so we will be a bit briefer in our responses. But it will be as equally valuable in exposing the deep logical and theological problems of Molinism. “It is fallacious to infer that x will necessarily happen. It just will happen. It is entirely possible that x [...]

Now the skeletons come out. The next part of Craig’s work essentially critiques D.A. Carson’s doctoral dissertation (revised and published as Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility). This should be a rather helpful part in the series since it uncovers some plain theological errors behind Molinism. If you like being confronted with God, both the inarguable [...]

Admittingly, the first time I opened up Craig’s book, the first sentence (in Preface) had me scratching my head.  Craig says the purpose of the book is about “…how to reconcile God’s foreknowledge with human freedom” (11). Really? I began wondering why. Maybe my seminary courses and books in church history gave me the wrong [...]

Introduction to the Introduction One of the common strategies of legitimizing heresy and false teaching is to keep people guessing about what it is. Create a fog of accusations and denials and charges of “misrepresentation” that is so thick and so persistent that onlooking Christians are forced to hesitate in making judgments. “If there are [...]

I don’t know why it took me about five years to get around reading Oliphint’s works. But I stumbled upon four of the best pages I’ve ever read on the subject of the relationship between theology and philosophy, and it pleases me to have one much more qualified and wise deliver timely and incredibly important [...]

One of our last criticisms of Bill Craig’s classical apologetic method contained a sound clip of him denying original sin with his debate with Shabir Ally. That was face-plant, theological-sacrifice number 1. Number 2 brings us to his response to a question on the Qu’ran. Although this is not quite as serious as denying original [...]