Richard Dawkins debates Old Testament morality - Unbelievable?

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Richard Dawkins has described the God of the Old Testament as (among other things) a "capriciously malevolent bully". The world's best known atheist joins Justin Brierley to discuss the morality of the Old Testament in light of the Bible TV series airing in the UK on Channel 5. Rabbi Josh Levy and Christian lecturer Chris Sinkinson discuss with Dawkins whether the events of the Old Testament are historical and how to interpret the so-called "terror" passages. What about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, or of Abraham nearly sacrificing Isaac? On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_0Fx_RICI This programme is brought to you in partnership with www.springharvest.org & www.thegodquestion.tv For more resources on the Bible TV series http://www.premier.org.uk/thebible For Richard Dawkins http://www.richarddawkins.net For Chris Sinkinson's book Time Travel to the Old Testament http://www.ivpbooks.com/9781844749041 For Rabbi Josh Levy http://bit.ly/1cqxwG2 For more faith debates visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes You may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 12 Dec 2009 - Dawkins Debate on Atheist fundamentalism Unbelievable? 8 Oct 2011 - Old Testament Grill-a-Christian with Peter J Williams

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0:30.6	Good afternoon and welcome along to unbelievable with me Justin Briley.
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0:42.1	So pleased to say that my special guest on today's
0:44.2	program is Richard Dawkins, probably the world's leading atheist. And of course I'll introduce
0:49.4	our other two studio guests as we get into the topic of today's program.
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1:00.5	UK slash unbelievable, where you can subscribe to this program as a
1:05.3	podcast and find many other features and resources. Well today our topic is the
1:09.7	Bible especially the Old Testament. A new series on Channel 5 began last weekend
1:15.2	continues tonight, Saturday the 7th of December. It's The Bible TV series and
1:21.0	before I tell you exactly what we're discussing on today's program
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