Started listening to the video and it has certainly grabbed my attention right away!
My answers to the questions posted…
W L Craig has been wrong about many things and this is certainly one of them, because there are lot’s of people who have not made up their mind. I think that the important question is who or what is God and people are likely to decide whether it exists or not based on their answer to that question.
Science requires faith. For religion to be reasonable it must be consistent with the findings of science.
The God I believe in chose love and freedom over power and control. So He created a universe run by the automatic operation of natural law in which the self-organizing process of life could begin.
Are books simply ink on paper? Consciousness is a property of life, and life is a self-organizing physical process. Most of the life we see and understand is in the medium of chemical processes. The “soul” is an invention of a number of religions which believe in things like reincarnation and the Gnostic belief that this fragment of the divine was trapped and imprisoned in a physical body. The spirit is not a part of the mathematical space-time structure of the physical universe, but it can take its form and essence from the choices of a physical living organism.
Nothing. If there is such a thing, then it has no part of the measurable universe.
We tend to accept by faith the recommendations of religion regarding sexual behaviors which it claims to be harmful to our spiritual well being.
I would hope that people would not put any faith in the claims of religious people and organizations who ask people to participate in such things.
It can be all of these things.
It can be moral if this is something which people do to themselves. This is in fact what we see in the world so often, people making some portion of the earth a hell for themselves and/or others. How can it not be moral for people to face the logical consequences of their own choices.
After watching the video I see that the questions were more of a summary of the video and part of the suggestion that this is the sort of thing a class on apologetics should explore rather than the things in W L Craig’s book. This would be a much better title for the thread: What questions should a class on Apologetics explore?
Here is a suggestion: How about looking for the questions that the various books of the Bible are addressing and talk about those. Of course this doesn’t apply to all the books of the Bible but it does to some of them.