Zain's Guide to Overthinking Everything

William Lane Craig’s Refutation of the Worst Objections against the Kalam Cosmological Argument     In this blog post, we delve into the Kalam Cosmological Argument, an argument for the existence of God championed by Dr. William Lane Craig. This blog post will both present what Dr. Craig considers to be the worst objections to the argument and refute them. While he refutes 10 arguments, I will only present 3 since I believe the other 7 are too erroneous to even entertain. The Kalam Cosmological Argument is as follows: P1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause P2. The universe began to exist C. Therefore, the universe has a cause.   The first objection I would like to present is: 1. The argument commits the fallacy of equivocation. In the first premise “cause” refers to a “material cause”, while in the conclusion it does not. An example of the fallacy of equivocation is as follows: 1. Greek is a language 2. Socrates is Greek 3. Therefore, Socrates is a ...

  Is God Always the Creator?: Exploring Divine Attributes Has God always been The Creator? This question arose in my mind while reading Dr. William Lane Craig’s book, Time and Eternity: Exploring God’s Relationship to Time , as on page 88 he states,  “Thomas agrees with premise (3). On his view, relations between God and creatures, such as God’s being Lord over the world, first began to exist at the moment at which creatures come into being.” The context of this quote was whether God is temporal or timeless. Craig argues that since the beginning of creation, God is temporal as creating necessitates new relations that He previously did not have. An extrinsic change within God necessitates temporality. However, my inquiry is regarding whether God is “Lord over the world” regardless if creation exists. Surely, all rational souls agree that God is Lord when creation exists but how about before? Some argue that God became a creator as soon as He created and thus some attributes of ...

  Thomistic Divine Simplicity: A God in Time? Discussions about the nature of God and time have intrigued theologians and philosophers for centuries, with various viewpoints shaping our understanding of the divine. One such perspective, deeply rooted in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, is the doctrine of divine simplicity. According to the doctrine of divine simplicity, there is no composition or change in God’s essence. For example, we may understand God to have the attributes of being merciful or loving or omnipotent, however these attributes are identical to each other and identical to His essence, according to Thomas Aquinas. The distinction between these attributes arrive from our mental conception of them as it is only a virtual not a formal distinction. In other words, God is a pure and eternal act of existence. This is not the only view of divine simplicity, for example both the Sunni Athari and Catholic Franciscan traditions hold that God’s attributes are truly distinct wit...