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Craig’s Dilemma – Escape for Aseity, but Hello Grounding Objection
William Lane Craig says he doesn’t think aseity is threatened by middle knowledge, because he is an anti-realist with respect to abstract objects including possible worlds. In other words, he views possible worlds as non-existent. Thus, God’s middle knowledge is not dependent on something outside himself. While that’s an understandable response, it runs smack into…
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Learn a Word: Aseity (Self-Existence)
As one wise pastor recently pointed out to me, “very few people even know what aseity means.” He’s right, of course. So, what does aseity mean? In general it refers to God’s property of being self-existent. By way of background, I provide the following explanation: By self-existence we mean (a) That God is “causa sui,”…