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Unbelievable? 3 Oct 2009 - What picture of God does the Bible paint?

Unbelievable?

Premier Unbelievable?

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Wilson is an author and church leader.  His book "GodStories" describes the Bible as "the gospel of God". He says the story is told in multiple ways of sins forgiven, shame removed, beauty restored, and meaning reinstated. Atheist Norman Bacrac of the Ethical Society contends that the picture the Bible paints of God is not as beautiful as Andrew claims - for instance how can the story of The Flood tell of a loving God? Find out about Andrew and GodStories at www.godstoriesbook.com For Norman Bacrac and the Ethical Society visit www.ethicalsoc.org.uk To hear more Christian/non-Christian debate visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the podcast or via itunes If you enjoyed this show you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 25 Aug 2007 - Deluded by Dawkins? Andrew Wilson debates atheist Gordon Livesey Unbelievable? 7 Mar 2009 - The Reason for God" - Pastor Timothy Keller & Atheist Norman Bacrac Join the debate at the Premier Community's "Unbelievable?" group

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Good afternoon. Welcome along to the program. I'm Justin Baley with you for the next hour and a half for unbelievable and if this is your first time tuning into the program it may be because you're listening via our National D. A.B. Service, welcome along. This is the show that gets Christians and

0:44.8

non-Christians talking. And we're certainly going to be doing that during the course of the day.

0:49.3

So I do hope you can stay with me through till 4 o'clock this afternoon or you may be listening online via

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Premier.org. UK forward slash unbelievable via the podcast and that sort of thing

0:59.2

you're welcome along as well let me tell you what's coming up today. We have a young

1:05.1

apologist joining us. His name is Andrew Wilson. He's the author of God's

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stories. That's the name of his latest book. It's the story of why the Bible as a whole is a

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unity and tells the story of God's character wanting to redeem his people. Well

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that's certainly not a view of the Bible shared by our atheist guest today.

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He is Norman Bachrach, he's the editor of the ethical record, and he's going to be telling us why he believes

1:29.7

the Bible doesn't paint a nice picture of God. We'll be hearing their discussion

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throughout the program today here on unbelievable.

1:38.6

Well it's my great pleasure to introduce our two guests on the program today.

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They are Andrew Wilson and Norman Backcrack, and we're going to find out why they're here,

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