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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Is Dr. Craig Wrong About Deconstruction? Part One

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig offers a response to a YouTube atheist on Deconstruction. In this first part, Deconstruction is defined.

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0:00.0

I'm working on a building, I'm working on a building.

0:08.0

I'm working on a building for my Lord, for my Lord.

0:13.0

It's the Holy Ghost building, it's the Holy Ghost building.

0:17.5

It's the Holy Ghost building for my Lord, for my Lord.

0:22.3

Hey, welcome to reasonable faith with Dr. William Lane Craig.

0:26.4

I'm Kevin Harris.

0:27.4

You may have heard Dr. Craig talking about so-called deconstruction.

0:32.0

Well, we're going to talk about it again today.

0:34.6

Someone on YouTube thinks Dr. Craig is very wrong about this whole issue. This is going

0:40.8

to be a two-part series. Let's go to part one in the studio with Dr. Chris.

0:48.3

Bill, we continue to hear about individuals who are deconstructing their Christian faith

0:54.0

and are very vocal about it. Deconstruction is

0:58.7

somewhat of a trend and I think seems to be rather ill-defined. Today we're going to look at some

1:05.3

excerpts from an atheist, an ex-Christian, who thinks you have it all wrong on deconstruction. He's commenting on

1:15.2

your remarks at an event that was special to you, and we'll talk about that in a moment.

1:20.6

Perhaps we should define deconstruction as it is most often presented in social media for

1:27.3

those who are unfamiliar with the term. Well, I think as it's most often presented in social media for those who are unfamiliar with the term.

1:29.8

Well, I think as it's most often presented, Kevin, Christian deconstruction involves the revision or the

1:38.4

dismantling of one's system of Christian beliefs.

1:49.4

And it involves discarding some important beliefs because they are in some way unacceptable.

1:53.7

And so the process of deconstruction is essentially destructive in nature.

2:00.7

The event was at Austin Ridge Bible Church in Texas where you were interviewed by your son, John.

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