Commenting on the appeal to the “internal witness of the Holy Spirit” within the Protestant tradition, William Lane Craig wrote:
An obvious objection to this defense of scriptural inspiration
is that adherents of rival revelations such as the Qur’an and the Book of
Mormon, could with equal justification claim that their scriptures are God’s
Word, since they, too, experience them as God’s speaking to them. . . . What the
Christian theologian can and should claim is that there are, indeed, powerful de
facto defeaters of Muslim and Mormon claims on behalf of their scriptures,
such as the falsehood . . . [of] Joseph Smith’s teaching that God is a
corporeal hominin living on another plant (Scriptural Teachings of the
Prophet Joseph Smith). (William Lane Craig, Systematic Philosophical Theology
[Croydon: Wiley Blackwell, 2025], 1:173)
Keep in mind: Craig believes
that the second person of the Trinity will remain the God-man (ergo, corporeal)
for eternity in another “dimension” of sorts (i.e., heaven). But that is
not a “de factor defeater” of Trinitarian Christology.
To see the overwhelming
biblical evidence for divine embodiment, see, for e.g.:
Lynn Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment
For a thorough refutation of Craig's work on creation ex nihilo, see Blake T. Ostler's essay from 2005, Out of Nothing: A History of Creation ex Nihilo in Early Christian Thought
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