Suffering & God in the Intensive Care Unit: Dean Mayes & Dan Paterson

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Could the story of Christianity really be true? How do we make sense of suffering if so? Dan Paterson is the author of 'Questioning Christianity', which seeks to make sense of Christianity to skeptics and doubters. He engages with Dean Mayes who was an atheist, but whose intellectual journey and work as a nurse in intensive care have caused him to reconsider Christianity in recent years. For Dan Paterson: https://www.questioningchristianity.com For Dean Mayes: http://www.deanfromaustralia.com --- For exclusive resources and to support us: • Confident Christianity apologetics course: http://www.premier.org.uk/getconfident • Support (USA): http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support (rest of the world): https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable • For our newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • For our blog: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievable-the-blog • For the podcast: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PremierUnbelievable • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	If it comes down to facing suffering in a world where there is no hope, the death really
0:12.1	does rob us of any ultimate hope and where suffering gets the last word and where there's
0:17.4	no ultimate meaning to our suffering, it's meant to be avoided in order to maximize
0:21.7	pleasure and minimize pain.
0:23.3	Well then, I would much rather suffer with Jesus than suffer without him.
0:28.6	At the end of the day I have to push on and lean into the duty that I've taken on, that
0:37.3	if I can kind of contribute to alleviating that suffering then that to me is, that means
0:45.3	a lot to me.
0:46.3	That sense comes from something greater than me.
0:51.5	You're listening to unbelievable with Justin Briarly.
0:58.5	Hello, welcome back to a really heartfelt discussion today between my guests Dan Patterson and Dean
1:04.0	Maison, whether the story of Christianity could be true and Dean's own experience as a
1:08.4	nurse in intensive care.
1:10.6	This is the first proper discussion show for Unbelievably for 2022.
1:14.3	We have lots of exciting things planned for you this year.
1:17.9	Look out for the launch very soon of a new mini site bringing together all of our current
1:23.0	podcasts, video shows and resources from Premier Unbelievably.
1:27.0	That includes things like Ask NTWrite anything, the CS Lewis podcast and other shows.
1:32.5	And thanks for the tremendous number of suggestions for show topics that have come in over the
1:36.8	new year period.
1:38.3	All those who have entered our survey as well for what you'd like to see on the next
1:41.3	series of the big conversation will be trying to look as many of those as possible and put
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