William Lane Craig vs Keith Parsons | 'Why I Am/Am Not A Christian' | Prestonwood Baptist Church

In 1998, Dr William Lane Craig debated Professor Keith M. Parsons at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, TX. The topic of the debate was "Why I Am/Am Not a Christian." After the debate there was a lengthy exchange between the debaters lead by the moderator. The debate concluded with a question and answer period allowing both Dr Craig and Professor Parsons the opportunity to respond.

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[SrEobardThawne]

Craig was clearly superior, as usual.

[anthonyosorio]

Craig built a case and defended it well.

[smallsmalls]

This man has been defending God and the ressurection of Jesus for over 35 years Brilliantly.

[eggrigg]

Keith speaks about hallucinations but he never seem to analyze the supposed hallucinations.

[Ms_Pearl]

Dr Craig, its 2024 and I am listening and sharing with others

[ivanmorales]

Dr. Craig has no idea how much his work has impacted my life ❤
Jesus is King 👑

[atinotevuelveaimportar]

1:39:50 A lesson that guy would never forget.

[AyantuAyu-quii]

I wish i would learn apologetics from dr. Craig but i live in Ethiopia😭 so... Anyways what a great grace we have seen in dr. Craig God bless him.(and me)

[Eulogy]

Wow William lane Craig just dropped the mic on parsons, absolutely destroyed him

[CODinformant]

“I cannot believe in such a monster” ummm 🤔that’s a moral absolute… what do you have to fall back on that validates that God is “evil” for taking life if you don’t believe in a God? Disbelief in God nullifies morality.

[smallsmalls]

If God ever needed a body guard the William Craig lane is the man.

[MultipleGrievance]

Why do these guys who insist They are not biased and tell you so over and over again, seems so biased They carry it on their sleeve??
I mean he's not even capable of hiding it. How could I believe that he's not biased ?
Everything in his words and demeanor scream it !
He even lost control of his emotions for a minute.

[pepperachu]

I've been listening to debates long enough to realize, your gonna believe whatever you want to believe

[WaveFunctionCollapsed]

1:39:05
1:40:05 even if everyone saw that
atheist will say i was dreaming 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[petermetcalfe]

Parsons was brilliant. He presented facts and perfect reason and logic. Anyone who believes Craig won must have an incredible bias.

[lukemedcalf]

If I was spreading a legend in anceint Isreal, why would I include the tertimony of women in my gospel narrative? Why would I say that the God I worship was made flesh and died on a cross? Why would anyone in the ancient Roman world want to worship that God?!?!? That's not an attractive narrative by any means?!

[Demonizer]

I'm an agnostic and I definitely believed Keith Parsons won on the majority of the points here. Outstanding debate and I thought Parsons made better arguments.

[trentcronk]

Big bang theory posits time and space comming into existence but matter and energy are proposed to have always existed in a point (0 dimensional). Something out of nothing is not what the theory says. I hope Craig knows this now.

[SirBoggins]

This is basically the guy who apologised for and then justified the Amalekite genocide??

[Tessinentdecken]

If God is real? Why is there a debate? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I love Pizza 🍕