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Unbelievable?

Is death a tragedy for atheists, is resurrection wishful thinking for Christians? Glen Scrivener & Michael Collett

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this Easter weekend edition of the show Justin hosts a dialogue between evangelist Glen Scrivener (who is speaking at Unbelievable? 2018) and atheist journalist Michael Collett. Glen’s recent book ‘Divine Comedy, Human Tragedy: What is life?’ is an evangelistic book on why Christianity makes sense of the tragedy of death. Michael Collett, an ex-Christian and a fellow Aussie, discusses why as an atheist he believes life can have meaning even if death is the end, and why he can’t believe in the joy of heavenly resurrection if there is also a hell. For Glen’s book https://www.10ofthose.com/products/23634/divine-comedy-human-tragedy For Michael Collett: https://twitter.com/collettmp For Unbelievable? the Conference 2018: http://www.premier.org.uk/justask Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk Get Unbelievable? the Conference 2017 DVD/CD & Digital Download: http://www.premier.org.uk/shop 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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0:00.0

Good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelievable. This is the program that brings Christians

0:11.3

and non-Christians together for dialogue and debate. And I hope you're enjoying this Easter

0:15.8

weekend. It's holy Saturday. It's that in between time, between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

0:21.5

And our subject on the program really deals with the death side of Easter. But also the resurrection

0:27.4

side of Easter too. I'll be introducing my guest, Glenn Scrivener and Michael Collett in just a

0:32.7

moment's time. Glenn, one of the people speaking at this year's unbelievable conference, I should say,

0:37.8

and we've exciting news on that front. We've just released the full schedule of seminars and

0:42.2

topics that will be taking place at this year's conference. If you want to go to our website,

0:46.8

to find out the various seminar streams and all the different options that are available on the day,

0:51.5

if you come along to the conference, it's available right there at premier.org.uk slash just ask.

0:57.8

It's all happening on Saturday, the 19th of May. This year's unbelievable conference just ask tough

1:03.2

questions, honest answers, real speakers. And had a lot of fun recently shooting a video promo that

1:09.5

will be available just after Easter in which I try to host a discussion between two pieces of

1:16.0

artificial intelligence, Google Home and the Amazon ecosystem. And well, you'll see the results

1:21.8

for yourself if you watch the video promo, which will be releasing soon. But the point of the

1:26.1

conferences that we can get certain kinds of information out of these home speakers and things. But

1:31.6

if you want answers to live deepest questions, well, you need to look elsewhere. And we're aiming to

1:35.8

give you good answers at this year's conference. Some really excellent guests joining us. I've already

1:39.7

mentioned Glenn. We've got some wonderful scholars from reasons to believe in the US joining us. We've

1:43.8

got Andy Bannister, Sharon Dirk's Ruth Jackson. We've got Rob Parsons and Catherine Hill and more

1:49.4

besides all joining us and so many options to choose from. If you go to that list of seminars and

1:55.4

topics, you'll find there are four different seminar streams, the Just Ask theme, the Christ is the

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