I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGI am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGIt’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGIf you’re sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGMore often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGThe person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGThe mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGThe simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus’ resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGFor the assertion that “There is no God” is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that “There is a God.” Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGReason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGThe man who feels like he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body, when he goes into the ladies room, it’s the other women whose privacy it seems to me as being violated by having this man walk in… regardless of how he feels.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGSuccessful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGCertainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGShould a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGFaith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGThe Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIGThe renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God’s existence apart from divine revelation.
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