Deep Questions on Salvation for William Lane Craig

About this sermon

William Lane Craig engages a wide range of difficult questions on the doctrine of salvation. These inquiries were presented by the Latin America chapters of Reasonable Faith and include discussions on animal death, Calvinism, original sin, trans-world depravity, syncretistic Catholicism, and more. Special thanks to Raul Jaramillo, the Regional Chapters Director for Latin America. For more information on our Reasonable Faith Chapters worldwide: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/chapters Our website, https://www.reasonablefaith.org, contains troves of in-depth resources on Christian theology, apologetics, and philosophy. Ready for training? Check out our free Equip platform: https://knowwhyyoubelieve.org/ We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/ 00:00 - Introduction & Dr. Craig's Cat's Cameo 03:06 - Why is it important that Christians have a systematic soteriology? 06:00 - What about additive beliefs or works for salvation? 10:10 - On syncretistic Catholicism 13:20 - If God's nature is love, is God's love truly free? 17:40 - Are the incarnation and atonement done necessarily or from God's good choosing? 19:20 - What is your view on the sinful nature of man and the doctrine of original sin? 26:15 - How does being moral agents make our natural instincts evil? 28:05 - Is it possible that Adam & Eve didn't have to sin and could have remained innocent? 28:40 - On the doctrine of predestination & election 35:00 - Is God's middle knowledge a factor in who is saved and which world he chooses? 39:57 - On trans-world depravity 42:14 - Why is death considered a problem that Christ's atonement needed to resolve? 44:50 - On the nature of saving faith 51:55 - What is the best Calvinistic argument against prevenient grace? What are the deficits of that argument? Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other channel, which contains short clips: https://www.youtube.com/drcraigvideos Keep up with RF on social media: https://twitter.com/rfupdates https://www.facebook.com/reasonablefaithorg https://www.instagram.com/reasonablefaithorg/

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• Salvation