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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Question of the Week #933: Discord among the Trinitarian Persons Once More

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

Dr. Craig, I had a question about the persons of the Trinity and the idea of possible worlds.

0:20.4

I was recently reading your Attributes of God

0:23.2

series to my daughter. In God is three persons, Papa answers the objection. But then what if

0:30.1

all the persons disagreed with each other? By responding, each is all knowing, all powerful,

0:37.3

and all good. So God the-powerful, and all good.

0:38.7

So God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit always agree and act together in everything.

0:45.1

I understand this statement to mean that God's omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence

0:50.3

cause all members of the Trinity to choose to bring about what is best. However, elsewhere in your

0:57.2

published work, you have posited that there may be no such thing as a best possible world.

1:03.5

In your lecture, must God choose the best? You say, there is no reason whatsoever to think

1:10.4

that there is exactly one best possible decree that God might issue.

1:15.9

There is very plausibly an indefinite range of decrees available to God, which are equally good and unsurpassable.

1:24.0

In other words, there could be many options tied for best. If this is the case, what would stop

1:31.5

the persons of the Trinity from disagreeing? Say there are three options tied for best. What is stopping

1:38.7

the father from choosing option A, the son from choosing option B, and the Spirit choosing option C, if all are equally good,

1:47.7

and if all the members of the Trinity, in their omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence,

1:54.2

could plausibly bring about any one of them. The only reason I could think why they

1:58.8

wouldn't disagree is if the Son and Holy Spirit voluntarily submit to the will of the Father, which seems to be in line with what Scripture teaches.

2:08.7

But even in this scenario, they theoretically could disagree.

2:13.8

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

2:16.1

Even if the Father, Son, and spirit never do disagree.

2:21.1

Is there any reason why they couldn't disagree?

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