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- #11929 AMA: Salvation for the Unheard, Historic Adam and Eve, and Praying to Saints - Jimmy Akin
Questions Covered:
- 06:01 – John 14 Jesus says He is the way the truth and the life. How would this affect people who haven’t heard the message of Jesus?
- 08:35 – Why do some Catholics justify doing bad things in a civil marriage and later dismiss that former behavior saying it was not an issue because it wasn’t a valid marriage?
- 15:09 – Is it necessary to believe in historic Adam and Eve?
- 21:09 – Why does one need to be baptized to merit anything? How do you answer the atheist object of why would God send an unbaptized but otherwise good person to hell?
- 32:08 – Can you help me better understand Matthew 24?
- 45:29 – Why did God allow certain things in the old law like capital punishment?
- 52:50 – How is it not blasphemy to pray to the saints?
56 min - #11928 AMA: Mary’s Sinlessness, Power of Rituals, and Why Bad Things Happen to Good People - Mark Brumley
Questions Covered:
- 03:05 – I have an Eastern Orthodox friend – How can you prove Mary’s sinlessness through scripture and history?
- 12:10 – Can you explain your article that said Miracles happen? If they do, why do we rarely ever see them?
- 19:05 – How do I go by the code of canon 988 in confession, which says I must confess all past mortal sins?
- 34:25 – If somebody has a phobia is that something they will need to detach from in Purgatory?
- 38:08 – I struggle with the idea that rituals would mean something to God. Is there a scriptural reference for their importance?
- 43:06 – Why did St. John the Baptist send his disciples to ask Jesus who he was, if he recognized Jesus in the womb?
- 47:28 – My church does a communal Rosary during the time I can go to Adoration. How can I respond well to this since it prevents me from doing private prayer?
- 52:14 – Why do bad things happen to good people?
56 min - #11927 AMA: Answering Atheist Arguments, St. Paul’s View on Judaism, and the Infallibility of Tradition - Trent Horn
Questions Covered:
- 03:08 – How do atheists handle the question “How do you know what is essential to the category of God”?
- 07:45 – I met an atheist who believes in the idea that the universe is circularly caused. How can I respond to this?
- 13:40 – How can I interpret paragraph 9 of Inter mirifica as it relates to media?
- 19:14 – What did St. Paul think of his previous faith and Judaism?
- 29:23 – How do I respond to people who say you shouldn’t judge?
- 34:40 – Is Tradition infallible?
- 41:31 – Can a Catholic consider corporal punishment in general inadmissible?
56 min - #11926 Questions From Non-Catholics - Fr. Sebastian Walshe
Questions Covered:
- 03:10 – What happens if someone commits a mortal sin under baptism of desire?
- 05:28 – When Pope Pius XII issued liturgical forms to include vernacular, what was the purpose of that?
- 08:04 – Can Latin Mass societies begin the Easter Vigil Mass at a different time than is standard today?
- 12:49 – Is it okay for me to use the New Oxford Bible translation for a Catholic Bible study?
- 16:12 – How can we be so sure that Jesus wasn’t just using symbolic language during the last supper?
- 29:16 – What is your advice on what I can do since I can’t participate in the sacraments as a non-Catholic?
- 33:59 – Would a person that has to go to RCIA classes have to pay for the classes?
- 46:17 – The World Health Organization says that no amount of alcohol is good for a person. How does this square with the Catholic religion and their use of alcohol?
55 min - #11925 AMA: Sacraments, Church Fathers, and Mary’s Perfection - Joe Heschmeyer
Questions Covered:
- 05:13 – What is the matter in the sacrament of confession?
- 12:33 – What do you recommend to read for someone who wants an intro to the Church Fathers?
- 18:10 – How do we make the argument that Enoch is not inspired scripture?
- 23:56 – If we are not supposed to judge people, how do we judge anything in our lives?
- 31:20 – Why should Catholics consider Mary perfect?
- 38:32 – What evidence in the Early Church apart from Paul do you have to justify calling priests father?
- 48:08 – My husband is not Catholic. How do I convince him of the authority of the magisterium?
55 min - #11924 The Why’s of Catholic Belief - Karlo Broussard
Questions Covered:
- 07:26 – I’m new to Catholicism. What next steps can I take to learn more?
- 13:49 – What reliable methods do Catholics have to detect the supernatural?
- 22:16 – I’m Protestant. Why does RCIA/OCIA take so long?
- 30:03 – Why did they get rid of the communion rail?
- 33:39 – Why should a non-denominational Christian become Catholic?
- 38:22 – Are there levels of Purgatory?
- 47:20 – What are the 3 most common misconceptions that keep Protestants away from Catholicism?
56 min - #11923 The Why’s of Catholic Belief - Karlo Broussard
Questions Covered:
- 04:53 – Why does the Catholic Church claim to teach salvation by faith?
- 17:53 – Why do Catholics believe in purgatory and what does that mean?
- 31:44 – What is the Catholic interpretation of Romans 4:5?
- 35:28 – Why don’t we see Catholics street preaching? If they do, what does that evangelization look like?
- 46:05 – Why do we as Catholics believe in some of the laws of the Old Testament such as priestly laws? Why do we follow those and not others like the Mosaic laws?
56 min - #11922 Faith and Science - Stacy Trasancos
Questions Covered:
- 08:38 – Is there empirical evidence in biochemistry for your God?
- 17:28 – If AI had free will, could it be blamed?
- 22:16 – How does the Church deal with how Fr. Georges Lemaître’s work was used to calculate the big bang?
- 34:22 – Could science prove the existence of God? Have you read Peter Kreeft? Are spirit and matter distinct and disconnected?
- 45:37 – I’m a Catholic AI engineer. I disagree with the claim that AI sentience cannot exist. I think it’s something we should be concerned with.
- 52:36 – I have thoughts on AI not being able to have sentience. Its closer to robots.
56 min - #11921 Bible Myths - Steve Ray
Questions Covered:
- 17:33 – Should we take every word that Jesus said literally? Ex. Pluck your eye out if it causes you to sin.
- 30:26 – What are your thoughts on a priest who claimed that feeding the 5 thousand was not literal?
- 35:46 – What are your thoughts on Jonah?
- 38:38 – I heard that the sponge they used to give Jesus wine on the cross was a sponge the Romans used to clean up after using the restroom. Is that true?
- 45:40 – You guys are wrong about the eye of the needle was a gate.
- 49:58 – Is the miracle of Jesus raising a man from the dead a prefigurement of his death?
- 52:30 – Saul/Paul was given a new name at his conversion.
- 53:12 – They used to swaddle lambs so it wouldn’t get blemished.
56 min - #11920 AMA - Jimmy Akin
Questions Covered:
- 02:58 – Do you think God speaks to you?
- 07:22 – I’m actively reading and studying my Bible and one of my top concerns is if the Jewish people were given adequate chance to believe that Jesus was God and that his teachings were true? Obviously the Jewish people have continued on and is that not what God wanted? Any discussion on the topic would be appreciated, thank you to Jimmy and his team!
- 15:13 – Good evening Jimmy from the UK! I have a question about the Sacrament of Confession. In the Old Testament, people brought animal sacrifices to the priest to atone for their sins, with the size of the sacrifice corresponding to the severity of the sin (If I remember rightly). This is mirrored in the early Church, as confession was a public act, where individuals admitted their sins before the entire congregation. However, this practice evolved into the private, one-on-one confessions we know today, largely due to the influence of Irish monks, who introduced this method in the early medieval period.
- Some have argued that because the form of confession has changed over time, the Seal of Confession could also be altered. How can I explain this development to non-Catholics (and some Catholics too)? Thank you Jimmy, may God continue to Bless and Guide you all!
- 20:18 -I’ve watched your Mysterious Worlds episodes on young earth/old earth and the flood, but would it be permissible for a Catholic to interpret Genesis as a poetic narrative describing God’s creation of man and culling of the most evil men in our distant past by 1) reading Adam and Eve being earlier hominids when our ancestors became able to reason instead of being driven by instinct and in turn after sinning against God by eating from a possibly metaphorical tree of knowledge, our brain capacity started to expand causing more difficult births? And 2) reading the flood as being a story about God destroying more sinful versions of our ancestors, causing a population bottleneck as far back as 900,000 years ago?
- Converting to Catholicism from a secular background, reading the Old Testament as divinely inspired truths seen and expressed through a lens of the contemporary culture when each part of the OT was written removes all the stumbling blocks to finding my faith, but I don’t know if my interpretation stretches what is written too far.
- 34:56 – How is a narcissist saved if he’s in complete denial about being a narcissist?
- 37:10 – Is there a philosophical possibility that God exists without omnipotence?
- I heard an argument from a liberal Christian, Dr. Goff, which posits that a semi-powerful God would solve many theological quandaries, such as the problem of evil.
- 42:08 – Hello Mr Akin! What do you think of religious orders?
- 45:20 – Is it a correct understanding of the Catholic Faith to say that when Jesus suffered and died that only his human nature suffered and died and not the divine person?’
- 48:06 – How to find the truth in the world of excess information?
- 49:55 – I would love to know a breakdown of the evidence for and against global warming and in particular the degree to which human activity plays a role in this. I ask this of Jimmy because he may be one of the only people I would trust to give an unbiased assessment.
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