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Unbelievable?

Is belief in Divine punishment good or bad for us? Dominic Johnson and Peter S Williams

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Dominic Johnson’s new book ‘God is Watching You: How the fear of God makes us human’ makes the claim that belief in divine punishment has arisen because of the evolutionary advantage it brings in creating cooperative, moral societies. Christian philosopher Peter S Williams interacts with Dominic on questions over whether his research explains away religious belief, and whether Christianity is a religion of punishment and rewards. For ‘God is Watching You’ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/god-is-watching-you-9780199895632?cc=gb〈=en& For Peter S Williams: http://www.peterswilliams.com For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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You see when...

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Can I carry on? We can grow our own

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vegetables, send our children to school, build our own homes. Do you want to do the

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whole ad? No you go. This Christmas put your your prayers into practice, so there's no going back to extreme poverty.

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To donate, search for Tier Fund No Going Back.

0:30.0

Well, good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelievable with me Justin Brawley here as part of Faith explored every Saturday afternoon on Premier Christian radio.

0:38.8

Got lots of other good stuff of course still to come on Faith Expl between four and five this afternoon you can

0:43.6

hear the story of Rahil Patel formerly a quite high-profile Hindu priest you'll

0:48.6

find out how he converted to Christianity between four and 5 on the profile today.

0:54.0

Don't forget that unbelievable gets loads of response every week,

0:56.5

so stay tuned till the end of the show

0:58.2

to listen to some of the feedback that's come into recent editions

1:01.0

of the program, particularly last week's Devil's Advocates Show, in which the Christian

1:05.7

and atheist guest swapped roles and argued for each other's positions. That was a fun one.

1:09.8

And we're also going to be hearing about some of the other things that we've touched on in recent editions of the show.

1:16.0

If you want to listen back to any of these programs, then of course it's all available from the website of Unbelievable.

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Premier Christian Radio.com slash Unbelievable. Premier Christian Radio.

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dot com slash unbelievable.

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