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Unbelievable?

Unbelievable? 22 Mar 2008 Easter & the atonement

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Atheist Marilyn Mason says that the idea of God punishing his son for the sins of others is unjust, bizarre and immoral. Roger Forster of the Ichthus Christian Fellowship explains what he believes happened on Good Friday. Muslim guest Nazam Guffoor also contributes. To hear more discussions between Christians and non-Christians go to www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable. Join the discussion on the Premier Community www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable.

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When we put prayers to end extreme poverty into practice, there's no going back.

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Yes, thank you Isaac. I was just about to get on to that.

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You see when...

0:09.0

When we are trained in new skills, we can provide for ourselves.

0:12.0

Can I carry on? We can grow our own

0:14.9

vegetables, send our children to school, build our own homes. Do you want to do the

0:19.6

whole ad? No you go. This Christmas put your your prayers into practice, so there's no going back to extreme poverty.

0:27.0

To donate, search for Tier Fund No Going Back.

0:30.0

Good afternoon. Thank you for joining me here on Premier Christian Radio and thanks to Megan for Premier I choose and you can hear her again at the same time next week.

0:39.0

Well, can you believe it Easter is on us already.

0:42.0

Yesterday was Good Friday. Tomorrow Easter Sunday and this

0:45.6

is the sort of in-between bit. It's that part of the time when Jesus as it were

0:50.0

was in the grave before he resurrected again.

0:53.0

Well, we're really reflecting today on the show on what happened yesterday,

0:57.0

what we commemorated yesterday, which was Jesus' death on the cross.

1:01.0

This is unbelievable, the place where Christians and non-Christians get

1:04.6

together to talk. And as we reflect on the Easter doctrine of the cross we've

1:12.4

got an atheist with us.

1:13.4

Marilyn Mason says as an atheist she finds it a very odd thing to believe that God

1:18.8

would send the punishments of the

1:25.0

on his only son. It seems unjust, unfair, immoral, even a repugnant doctrine.

1:27.5

She wouldn't want to worship a god like that even if she did believe in God.

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