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October 25, 2024#11909 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin
Questions Covered:
03:35 – What advice would you give for starting a college apologetics club?
09:22 – Is there Mass in Heaven?
15:03 – What is your defense on John Henry Newman’s idea of doctrinal development?
24:45 – How can I refute once saved always saved and perseverance of the saints with scripture?
34:16 – How did Thomas receive the gift of the Holy Spirit since he was absent in John 20?
41:08 – In the 3rd letter of John, I have read different translations with Church or church. Would the lower-case c translation indicate John talking about a local church not the universal?
46:30 – Is snowflake adoption ethical?
51:59 – Does the long history of sexual abuse in the church make the church an apostate?
56 min
October 25, 2024#11908 Ask Me Anything - Tim Staples
Questions Covered:
03:02 – Why do Catholics have Jesus on the cross instead of just a cross. Also, are tattoos immoral?
16:01 – My wife and I were married in a Lutheran church. She is Catholic. She was told by her priest that she is not allowed to take the sacraments. Is this true?
28:45 – Often I hear complicated ideas when explaining Catholic doctrines. I find it hard to follow, and imagine others do as well. Do you have to understand these things to be Catholic?
44:15 – I’m considering Catholicism. I’m struggling with some Marian doctrines. Is it enough for me to become Catholic to assent to the Church’s doctrines, while not really being sure if I believe in them?
47:40 – What is the Catholic view on dispensationalism?
55 min
October 24, 2024#11907 Ask Me Anything - Trent Horn
Questions Covered:
03:48 – Could we employ some of your arguments against the Evil God Challenge against atheistic naturalism?
08:37 – I like the argument against sola scriptura that scripture doesn’t say everything has to be in scripture. But Protestants respond that Old Testament Jews didn’t have a magisterium, yet they still knew, more or less, what books were canon. If Old Testament Jews were fine with that, shouldn’t we be too? How do we respond to that.
17:17 – Are those who go to Hell likely to eventually go mad from all their suffering?
21:08 – In light of the recent story of the man declared brain dead from whom they were harvesting organs, but then the man showed signs of life: how should Catholics consider organ donation?
29:33 – Convince us that abortions are evil without using religion.
32:20 – Why is the purpose of the uterus disanalogy in the violinist argument successful in refuting it?
43:24 – Is 1 Cor 15:29 a good proof for purgatory?
50:18 – How do we answer the ethical dilemma: a robber comes to your house and makes you choose a family member for him to kill, or else he will kill your whole family.
55 min
October 24, 2024#11906 Ask Me Anything - Joe Heschmeyer
Questions covered:
14:42 – Some Protestants are telling me there was no centralized authority in the early church and the bishops of Rome weren’t popes. How would you answer that?
22:32 – What are the other possible interpretations of Isaiah 53?
25:14 – Is it licit to practice cranialsacral therapy?
32:21 – How does the Catholic Church justify what it did in the Inquisition?
44:23 – I think what goes on in my neighborhood during Halloween is demonic. They’re glorifying death.
50:49 – Can you tell me more about the Black Mass happening in Atlanta on Friday? What’s going on there and what should we do?
56 min
October 23, 2024#11905 Ask Me Anything - Joe Heschmeyer
Questions covered:
06:05 – Is the story of the rich young man the same story in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, or is it something that happened frequently enough that they all reported similar but distinct interactions?
15:29 – Exodus says half of the ten plagues didn’t impact Israel, but doesn’t say that about the others. Did they impact Israel, and if so, why?
21:15 – The physical human body is sexed male and female. Is the human soul also sexed masculine and feminine?
34:38 – Can you help me understand the Church’s new teaching on the death penalty?
56 min
October 23, 2024#11902 Overcoming Obstacles to Catholic Belief - Karlo Broussard
Questions Covered:
03:48 – How to respond to Catholics recent teaching on infallibility?
15:00 – I question the validity of annulments?
20:04 – How do we reconcile a dogma taught by Pope Pius XI being counter only a few decades later by Vatican II?
29:25 – I struggle with the teaching on life when it comes to cases of rape or incest?
36:46 – What is the point if only 144,000 will be saved?
44:49 – I struggle with the line “I go and prepare a place for you in Heaven” in John 14:3?
56 min
October 22, 2024#11903 Overcoming Obstacles to Catholic Belief - Karlo Broussard
Questions Covered:
05:39 – Why does the Church teach that there in no salvation outside the Church?
13:29 – I struggle with the statistical proof for faith?
19:57 – My friend has a hard time with the Pope. Why are there disagreements?
30:16 – My friend can’t get over the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah and Pope Gregory’s teachings on it?
34:06 – I struggle with the lack of clarity in RCIA classes. Should RCIA members participate in the sign of the cross and other parts of the Mass?
43:56 – My obstacle to practicing is my personal challenge with improving past behaviors and my friend group?
51:28 – My friend struggles with what makes monotheism true?
56 min
October 22, 2024#11902 AMA - Tim Staples
Questions covered:
08:11 – If you got permission from the Pope to access the secret vatican archives, what’s the one thing you’d want to see?
19:20 – Why does it seem like so many Catholic priests are hard to interact with on a personal level?
24:10 – My granddaughter is being taught that Adam and Eve aren’t real people and that bothers me. What are Tim’s thoughts on that?
35:28 – How did the rosary come to be? And how did it become associated with Mary?
46:05 – Why does the stigmata occur in the hands when most historical data suggests Jesus was crucified through his wrists?
51:14 – Who is the man of lawlessness referenced in 2 Thessalonians?
56 min
October 21, 2024#11901 Rules for Internet Evangelization - John Martignoni
Questions covered:
23:30 – What would be a short, succinct response to the Protestant claim that indulgences aren’t found in the Bible?
32:20 – How can I develop my online outreach and persuasiveness in order to reach peoples’ hearts?
42:20 – How do I evangelize online?
48:07 – How should I go about starting a YouTube channel for Christian apologetics to boost my profile as a DJ?
56 min
October 19, 2024#11900 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin
Questions Covered:
01:31 – Is Zachary King’s testimony a legitimate conversion?
05:39 – Why is it not good to receive the Eucharist in your hands?
13:06 – My first wife had abortions; do I still need to confess this?
15:17 – What is the will of the Church regarding Baptism?
19:13 – How do you discern if the traditions you believe are from God?
23:25 – What is the origin of relics in Catholic Altars?
33:34 – Was the Gospel of Luke written as a Classical Greek comedy?
44:22 – How should I view the unapproved Our Lady of the Tear of Joy apparitions?
48:47 – What is the difference between First Baptist and Catholics?
51:39 – If there is no time in Heaven, how was Moses in a waiting place?
55 min