Reasonable Faith Podcast

Frank Turek and the Atheist Student: Why Didn't God Make Us Perfect?

A YouTuber named Jay claims Frank Turek dodged a university student's question: if God is perfect, why didn't He create us perfect rather than flawed? Kevin plays the cli

The Spirit of the Logos? (QoW #1009)

A listener who's been working through Dr. Craig's Systematic Philosophical Theology asks whether it's more accurate to say Jesus Christ is "the Spirit of the Logos" unite

Is God Still Around? (QoW #1008)

A listener from the UK argues that the Kalam cosmological argument has a fatal flaw: even if it proves God created the universe, that doesn't prove God still exists today

Apatheism and the Unexamined Life

Journalist Jonathan Rauch's Atlantic essay "Let It Be" argued that apatheism, simply not caring whether God exists, is a mark of civilizational progress, making society s

Inevitable Sin? (QoW #1007)

A listener writes in with a philosophical challenge to the coherence of Christian doctrine: if God knowingly creates the exact conditions under which people will sin, how

Eternal Generation of the Son: Dr. Craig Responds to the Backlash

A clip of Dr. William Lane Craig discussing the eternal generation of the Son went viral a few weeks ago, picked up by Protestia and drawing heresy accusations from acros

Annihilationism and Penal Substitutionary Atonement Once More (QoW #1006)

A reader follows up on an earlier question about annihilationism, asking Dr. Craig to unpack what it means that Christ was "momentarily separated" from the Father on the

Why Not the Beatific Vision Now? (QoW #1005)

A reader asks Dr. Craig why God doesn't just grant humanity the beatific vision, the direct vision of God, right now, if it's the strongest possible evidence for His exis

A Megachurch Pastor's Eight Reasons for Leaving the Faith and Where They Go Wrong

A pastor trained at three seminaries and formerly on staff at a Dallas-area megachurch has said he is now an agnostic atheist, citing eight reasons for his deconversion.

Bestiality Among Adam and Eve’s Immediate Descendants (QoW #1004)

A listener working through Dr. Craig's book In Quest of the Historical Adam raises a pointed question about the model's implications: if Cain's wife came from outside the

Life in the Intermediate State (QoW #1003)

What's it actually like to exist as a disembodied soul in the intermediate state between death and resurrection? A listener writes in with real existential unease about b

N.T. Wright, Francis Collins, and the Historical Adam: William Lane Craig Responds

Francis Collins and N.T. Wright recently fielded audience questions after a public conversation, several of which centered on the historicity of Adam and Eve. Collins arg

Is Beauty an Objective Feature of Reality? (QoW #1002)

A listener from Morocco argues that beauty is like an emotion and not a property of objects, but says that doesn't make it subjective, since he considers emotions like fe

Back to School: Preparing Your Kids to Answer Tough Questions

A new school year means a new round of hard questions for your kids about evolution, evil, supposed contradictions in the Bible, whether Jesus really rose from the dead,

Question from a Hindu Background Believer (QoW #1001)

A listener asks Dr. William Lane Craig how Christianity's dependence on a historical resurrection (unlike Hinduism's Krishna) can be defended, then raises three questions

"Seven Heresies of William Lane Craig"? Dr. Craig Fact Checks!

A viral graphic accuses Dr. Craig of seven heresies. From Neo-Apollinarian Christology, his rejection of limited atonement and Calvinism, to his defense of Molinism. Dr.

The One-Thousandth Question of the Week (QoW #1000)

Reasonable Faith marks a milestone with its 1,000th Question of the Week and it lands right alongside the ministry's 20th anniversary. This time, William Lane Craig turns

Annihilation and Atonement (QoW #999)

A listener asks whether annihilation is even a coherent punishment for sin, given that Jesus's atonement on the cross required him to bear that same punishment—and as the

Paul Davies Wants a ‘Ghost in the Design’ — But Won’t Call It God

Dr. William Lane Craig continues his response to Paul Davies and Emily Qureshi-Hurst by examining some of today's most ambitious attempts to explain the universe without

Eschatology and Yet-to-Evolve ETs (QoW #998)

A listener asks whether the eschatological renewal of creation might be delayed billions of years if God's redemptive purposes extend to alien civilizations that haven't