Why Isn't Tony a Christian? David Robertson & Tony Smollett

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🗓️ 8 May 2015

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Justin chairs an open ended conversation between two Scots. Church leader David Robertson and atheist Tony Smollett . They cover the reasons why Tony fell away from his churchgoing childhood and would find it difficult to become a Christian today, while David shares from his own journey to faith. For David Robertson: www.solas-cpc.org and https://theweeflea.wordpress.com For Tony Smollett: https://twitter.com/tonescotland For more faith debates visit www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable> Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? http://www.kaltura.com/api_v3/getFeed.php?partnerId=618072&feedId=1_jlj47tkv> or Via Itunes

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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.
0:08.0	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	Hello and welcome along to the programme. I'm Justin Brawley your host for
0:33.6	unbelievable between now and four o'clock here as part of faith explored every
0:37.9	Saturday afternoon and what an eventful week it's been with the UK elections taking place. It'll be no surprise when you
0:45.8	listen to today's program which features two Scots that the election had not
0:50.9	been decided at the time we recorded this program.
0:53.1	Otherwise we might have made mention of the fact that most of Scotland now looks pale yellow
0:58.4	because of the landslide of the Scottish National Party in Scotland.
1:03.2	But however you voted and whatever your feelings are on the outcome of the British election,
1:08.3	I hope that you're ready for an interesting discussion on today's programme about matters
1:12.4	theological, spiritual, philosophical and much more today.
1:16.4	We're going to be hearing from David Robertson and Tony Smollett.
1:20.0	I'll be introducing them in just a moment's time.
1:22.2	Later on between four and five, you can hear me speaking to Jean Vanier.
1:26.1	He's the founder of Larsh, it's an international community,
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