He talks a little bit more about emotions in this next clip.

Check this out.

And so let's just take emotion out completely.

And the funny thing is that Dr. Craig is not following his own advice.

Dr. Craig is saying that even without evidence or argument,

one can know truth, know that Christ is the truth because of the witness of the Holy Spirit.

And I'm not trying to be pedantic, but what more do you attribute the witness of the Holy Spirit to

than feeling, than emotion?

I've never heard anyone describe their encounter with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God,

the witness of the Holy Spirit in any other way than emotional or feeling. Oh, I felt this stirring,

and I just knew. Oh, the most amazing peace came upon me.

I had a tugging at my heart like I had never had before.

I felt a conviction in my spirit that I was certain.

These are all feelings.

These are all emotions.

And yet they're good enough for Dr. Craig without some other defeater. But this is my point.

It's hypocritical. He is willing to say emotion creates truth. It can create knowledge as long as it's

the correct one and it's tied to the thing I already believe in. This is not truth. This is more

emotional, special pleading. This comes down to whether the witness of the Holy Spirit is only emotional or if it's more

than emotional, even though I suppose we may have an emotional response to the witness

of the Holy Spirit, Bill. You're exactly right, Kevin. Brendan fails to differentiate between an experience,

which is by definition subjective and the object of that experience, which may well be

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