Dr. John Bergsma

Allah is the necessary being, the creator.

And that distinguishes the concept of God with a capital G from gods with a small g. Richard Dawkins doesn't get this either.

He thinks that by God, we just mean some kind of supernatural being.

But no, we have a very specific sense of that meaning in the Judeo-Christian tradition by God.

We only acknowledge one God because God is the necessary being.

And there can only be one necessary being, as Father Spitzer has demonstrated, and many others.

He's probably the most recent.

But you would say a view of God that is mutable.

That starts to get squishy.

That starts to get gray.

But I would say, I think that Protestants in those camps probably don't fully realize the implications of their incorrect notions about God.

No, but they're not holding that God is the creator and the necessary being.

William Lane Craig believes that God's the creator, he's the grounded being, he's the necessary being.

So we're talking about the same person, okay, in reality.

And then he has some notions about the necessary being that if taken to their logical conclusion really cause some epistemological damage to that notion.

But I would suspect he doesn't realize that.

the full implications there.

Yeah, we're not saying, you know, worshipping the Creator is compatible with having very wrong notions about the character of the Creator.

I said worshiping the Creator is compatible with having some very wrong notions about the character of the Creator.

So yeah, and that's, I mean, because in Islam, well, you know, Allah has these aspects, has these attributes of perfection, which are true of the Creator, that He's all merciful, that He's all-knowing, that He's all-powerful, all these things.