Unbelievable? 2 Apr 2011 - Is it best to be agnostic?

Unbelievable?

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Mark Vernon trained to be an Anglican priest before losing his faith to become an atheist. But he became disenchanted with that position too. Now he champions agnosticism. He says agnosticism is more than "sitting on the fence" and is a rich place of searching after the big questions. Church Pastor David Robertson debates with Mark on whether God is ultimately unknowable. David claims that Jesus has made God knowable and that a journey of searching only makes sense in order to arrive at knowing. For Mark's book "How to be an Agnostic" see http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Agnostic-Mark-Vernon/dp/0230293212/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6 For Mark Vernon's blog http://www.markvernon.com For David Robertson http://www.solas-cpc.org/ For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the MP3 podcast http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 5 Dec 2009 - Are we better off free from religion? Atheist Dan Barker vs. Christian Charles Foster. Unbelievable? 28 Mar 2009 - "Challenging Atheist myths" - Part 2 - Adrian Hayter & David Robertson on Godless Morality and the Immoral Bible. Join the discussion at the Premier Community http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable and via Facebook and Twitter

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0:30.0	Well, welcome along. This is unbelievable. Every Saturday afternoon we bring you
0:34.6	conversations between Christians and non-Christians here on Premier Christian
0:38.2	radio. I'm your host Justin Briley for the next hour and a half or so and I do hope you enjoy spending some time in the
0:44.6	company of myself and my guests. Before we launch into today's subject which is a
0:50.0	fascinating one I'll fill you in in greater detail in a moment. If you haven't
0:54.9	already heard, where have you been if you haven't, we're hosting a special
0:58.8	conference. It's coming up on Saturday the 14th of May and it's going to be involving a number of guest
1:05.5	speakers including one of my guests on today's program David Robertson but also
1:09.8	Professor John Lennox and J Smith biblical scholars. It's all about defense and if
1:16.9	you like interacting with others about the Christian faith. It's what you might call
1:20.3	apologetics, something that this show does on a regular basis.
1:24.1	The Unbelievable Conference and it's subtitled honest answers to tough questions.
1:29.8	We're going to be looking at a range of tough questions that come up in daily life and we're going to be looking at a range of tough questions that come up in daily life and we're going to be
1:34.5	looking at ways in which we might want to approach those in a constructive way when we're
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