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  • ARGUMENTS – EXISTENCE OF GOD
    • The Argument from Contingency
    • Cosmological Argument
    • Moral Argument
    • Ontological Argument
    • Teleological/Design/Fine-tuning Argument
    • Pascal’s Wager
    • The Argument from Religious Experience
    • The Argument from Miracles
    • The Argument from Consciousness
    • The Argument from Truth
    • The Argument from Desire
    • The Argument from Aesthetic Experience
  • HISTORICITY – RESURRECTION
    • Minimal facts argument
    • The Trials
    • Historicity of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
    • Burial
    • Empty Tomb
    • Postmortem appearance
    • Origin of the disciples belief
    • Reliability of the New Testament
    • Skeptics see the light
  • CHRISTIANITY & ISLAM
    • Fundamental Differences
    • Trinity vs Tawhid
    • Jesus
    • The Bible, Quran and Torah-Comparative Studies
    • Evangelism to Muslims
  • APOLOGETICS
    • What is apologetics?
    • Worldviews
    • Can anyone be an apologist?
    • Being a Christian “case-maker”
    • Apologetic Resources

Cosmological Argument

creation-of-the-universeThe Cosmological Argument or First Cause Argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God which explains that everything has a cause, that there must have been a first cause, and that this first cause was itself uncaused. The Kalam Cosmological Argument is one of the variants of the argument which has been especially useful in defending the philosophical position of theistic worldviews. The word “kalam” is Arabic for “speaking” but more generally the word can be interpreted as “theological philosophy.”

What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument? (William Lane Craig)–One Minute Apologist Show–(for more apologetic resource videos, go to the One Minute Apologist Youtube channel here)
Hear special guest Dr. William Lane Craig walk us through the Kalam Cosmological Argument.

The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God–Part 1 of 2–a concise illustrated explanation of the ‘family’ of cosmological arguments.
An argument for God’s existence based on the existence of the universe and observations of it.

The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God–Part 2 of 2–a concise illustrated explanation of the ‘family’ of cosmological arguments.

Faithful Guide To Philosophy 4: A Dependent Cosmos (Cosmological Arguments I) – Peter S. Williams

Kalam Cosmological Documentary–This short documentary on the Kalam Cosmological Argument was made by http://www.damaris.org. William Lane Craig and Peter Williams are interviewed in this documentary. For more on the Kalam Cosmological Argument: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/in-defense-of-the-kalam-cosmological-argument

What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument? – William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig (perhaps, the most well known proponent of the Kalam Cosmological Argument) gives a presentation on the philosophical (the impossibility of an actual infinite number of things) and scientific (the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorem) proof for the KCA.

Books

Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz–William Lane Craig–here

Audio/Visual

William Lane Craig–Cosmological Argument podcasts–here

Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God–here

Web/Text:

Kalam Cosmological Argument-William Lane Craig–here

The Kalam Cosmological Argument–Pt 1-2–William Lane Craig–here

The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universeem>–William Lane Craig-here

William Lane Craig, God is Not Dead Yet–here

“God Is Not Dead Yet.” Christianity Today. July, 2008, pp. 22-27

Hugh Ross & Resident Scholars–Reasons to Believe –Cosmological Argument articles–here


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