Putting Christianity on Trial – Mark Lanier vs Paul Beaumont

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🗓️ 21 November 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Mark Lanier is a successful US trial lawyer. He’s also a keen theologian and apologist and has used his skills as a lawyer to make the case for Christ in ‘Christianity on Trial’. Paul Beaumont is a former Christian who lost his faith after coming under the influence of new atheists such as Richard Dawkins. His novel ‘A Brief Eternity’ is a critiques of Christinaity nad claims of heaven and hell. Mark defends Christianity and Paul acts as prosecution as they debate whether human life has value, the resurrection of Christ and why Paul lost his faith. For ‘Christianity on Trial’: http://www.ivpress.com/ontrial For the ‘A Brief Eternity’: http://paulbeaumont.org/a-brief-eternity For more faith debates visit www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://www.kaltura.com/api_v3/getFeed.php?partnerId=618072&feedId=1_jlj47tkv or Via Itunes

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1:06.0	Quite a lot of response to last week's program.
1:08.0	That was a debate between Jonathan McClatchy and Elliot George.
1:11.8	So some of that to come later on on today's program and
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1:26.2	We're putting Christianity on trial.
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