[Questioner] Even the people who believe in God they
argue about the nature of God. Like Deism
and Pantheism. So how do we know
there's a range of different notions on
the spectrum. How do we know which
one is more coherent? [Craig] Yes excellent
question. These arguments if sound enable
you to derive, or deduced, a number of
striking properties of this cause of the
universe which will rule out most of the
world's religions and narrow them down
to the world's great monotheisms.
For example, Pantheism is ruled out by
the demonstration that there is a
transcendent being which is the cause of
the universe as well as a source of
moral value that is objective. So these
arguments will give us a being which is
a timeless, spaceless, immaterial, uncaused,
eternal, personal, enormously powerful
creator of the universe that is the
paradigm and locus of absolute goodness.
That is a very rich theological concept of God
which is incompatible with all but the
great monotheisms. So this will narrow it
down to Deism, Christianity, Judaism and
Islam, basically. And then among those one
will need to look at further evidences
concerning Jesus of Nazareth and his
claims and so forth to narrow it down
further. But already the field is
winnowed as a result of the cumulative
force of these arguments.
