William Lane Craig on the Grounding Objection

I’ve started a brief response, but to be honest, does anyone really understand what he said? Is there a point here? I feel like these random thoughts are supposed to be part of a bigger picture, but the rest of the presentation disappeared or something. We’ll see what develops.

   In our last installment we examined Tim Warner’s assertion that rather than the great promise of God to His people that He has provided a full and complete salvation in Jesus Christ, Warner’s man-centered “progressive dispensationalism” leads him to make this amazing statement: Jesus did not tell the Jewish crowds what God had absolutely decreed, but God’s desire and purpose.

   Bob Anderson wrote to me today. He was very kind, apologized for the fact that what had been posted on the Steve Gregg forums was taken from another web forum and hence was not appropriately documented, and likewise indicated that he is not associated in any fashion with the University of Maryland. It seems the person who posted this material,

Below I have produced the notes I used in doing the Dividing Line Webcasts responding to Dr. Geisler’s added appendix on The Potter’s Freedom (these programs aired 8/11, 8/18, and 8/25/01. This is not my “published” reply to Dr. Geisler.  That is found at here.  These are simply the rough notes I used.  I expanded on some points in my written

The perfection of Christ’s work of salvation—from the reality of God’s eternal decree, the deadness of man in sin, the effectiveness of His substitutionary death in behalf of the elect, to the application in time by the Spirit of God—is the sole and only basis of any consistent doctrine of perseverance or “eternal security.” Every system that reduces the work