#11008 Did My Baby See a Ghost? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 03:44 – What was in the holy of holies during the time of Jesus? 12:20 – Has the Church taught exactly what we can know about God based on human reason? 17:00 – Does God break his promises? 23:03 – What’s the best way to interact socially with clergy? 28:46 – I think there’s a ghost in my home and wanted to get your thoughts. 33:24 – In the Luminous Mysteries, it says that the wedding at Cana was where his disciples started believing in Jesus. Why didn’t they believe in him before? 40:40 – Could you explain what glory is? 47:10 – I’m confused by all the mentions of John in the bible. The Gospel, letters, and revelation and also those Johns mentioned in the bible. Are they all different people? …

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0:00.0	Well, welcome back to Kathy Gantz was live as promised Jimmy Akin here with us this
0:20.6	hour as we continue with open form your calls welcome 888-318-7884 Jimmy Akin of course
0:28.0	Senior Apologist here at Kathy Gantz was and also the proprietor of Jimmy Akin's mysterious
0:33.6	world which we recommended yesterday for a man who was curious about ghosts because I think
0:39.8	you've got at least three or four episodes about ghosts over there don't you yes indeed
0:44.2	in fact our very first episode was on ghosts but at the time I did that I knew the theory
0:50.8	about ghosts you know from like a faith perspective and so forth but I didn't have a background
0:56.8	in the in the ghost literature yet and now I do so we've been looking at some very interesting
1:03.5	ghost stories among others from from the history of the literature oh yes so I we sent
1:09.3	them to the right place then because I know you've recently well I don't know how recent
1:12.0	it was but not too long ago you did one on poltergeist yes a ha noisy ghost which which
1:18.1	are believed normally to not actually be ghosts but yes oh it's the house settling as they
1:27.2	used to say no no well if it's if it if there's a natural cause like the house settling and
1:33.4	frequently in poltergeist cases there are natural causes for things the question is whether
1:39.6	there is a and and people who report them you know tend to get on edge and start interpreting
1:47.4	every little thing that happens is could this be the poltergeist and so there's usually some
1:54.0	natural stuff like shelves are at an angle or the floor is uneven or things like that that could
1:59.7	be responsible for object motion and you have to eliminate that first I got then you you see if
2:06.2	there is any residue anything that's left over that cannot be explained naturally which would
2:12.6	point you towards a paranormal cause and the especially in American parapsychology these days
2:20.6	the standard understanding is that although ghosts can display mind over matter or psychokinesis
2:31.0	that's not what's going on in most poltergeist cases in most poltergeist cases there is not a
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