Unbelievable? 30 Jan 2010 - Where was God in Haiti?

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Hundreds of thousands died in the Haiti earthquake of Jan 2010. Many more are still suffering. So where was God? Can we believe in an all loving, all powerful God in the face of such suffering and destruction? Roger Forster of The Ichthus Christian Fellowship argues that God suffers with those affected. Atheist Gordon Livesey believes that if God existed he would act to intervene. Nick Peters, who himself suffers from disability, argues that the existence of evil does not preclude a loving, almighty God. For Roger Forster's book "Suffering and the Love of God" visit http://www.ichthus.org.uk/Shop/ To support the DEC appeal for Haiti visit www.dec.org.uk You can hear more Christian/non-Christian discussion at www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the podcast or via Itunes. If you want to hear similar programmes: Unbelievable? 10 Jan 2009 Bart Ehrman & Richard Swinburne - "God's Problem: does the Bible fail to answer the problem of suffering?" Unbelievable? 19 Apr 2008 problems with God - an Atheist and Christian philosopher debate Join the discussion at the Premier Community

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0:00.0	When we put prayers to end extreme poverty into practice, there's no going back.
0:05.0	Yes, thank you Isaac. I was just about to get on to that.
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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	Well, welcome along to Unbelievable this Saturday afternoon. Wherever you are, however you're listening, you're very welcome along.
0:36.0	This is the show that gets Christians and non-Christians talking. And today is no exception.
0:41.0	Let's find out what's happening on the show today.
0:44.4	You're unbelievable.
0:47.0	Well we're talking about the biggest natural disaster,
0:50.6	well one of them at least in living memory. The Haiti government says
0:54.0	over 150,000 dead bodies have been recovered from the earthquake in Haiti. There are
1:00.0	still many people buried underneath and one major question is really being
1:04.8	asked by many people of faith and of no faith where was God in Haiti we're going to
1:09.7	be looking at the whole issue of evil, suffering, especially in light of natural disasters, things
1:15.2	that apparently have no human involvement whatsoever.
1:19.5	On the panel today we're going to be looking at this with Roger Forster, one of the founders of the Ithus Christian
1:24.1	fellowship and Gordon Livesy who's an atheist also by phone Nick Peters from South from
1:29.8	North Carolina will be hearing their perspectives in the course of today's program.
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