Is God Out of Time? GET EARLY ACCESS: William Lane Craig vs Emily Qureshi-Hurst!

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]If you adopt a B theory of time, it is a theological disaster.

[00:00:05]>> [music] >> The nature of time will affect all of the questions that we want to ask.

[00:00:08]>> Christ never comes down from the cross.

[00:00:11]The body in the tomb never rises from the dead. On the block universe view, the stain of evil is indelible. It's never done away with.

[00:00:20]>> You are a Christian theorist.

[00:00:21]>> I'd be interested what you make of Emily as an atheist theologian. Well, I hope that you're in transition.

[00:00:29]Well, is what philosophers call an A theorist of time. A tensed theorist of time. I exist in this present moment.

[00:00:37]Future [music] events are not real. Past events are not real. Emily embraces a tensed slash theory of time. [music] On the B theory, all moments of time are equally real. Intrinsic change is impossible. You just have different temporal slices of the four-dimensional worm. And that completely undoes orthodox Christian doctrine of salvation. The primary reason that I [music] am a B theorist is the scientific.

[00:01:03]>> Your understanding of relativity theory is confused. [music] I think it might be a little unfair to say that I'm confused. It's not a universal present moment if it's within a reference frame.

[00:01:12]The universe is a clock. It's God's clock.

[00:01:16]>> It seems Bill like you've been committed to three times. Do you believe you can be a Christian and believe in a B theory of time? Yeah. Emily represents a new wave [music] of philosophical theologian that is engaging with these issues of time in a new way that hasn't been done before.