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Catholic Answers Live

#11010 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 00:58 – Does Time Travel exist? 04:39 – Granting that I time travel back to the past to Jesus’ crucifixion, I take videos of Jesus to prove he exists, and I join Mary and John in approaching him. Is there a possibility that I will be recorded in the Bible? And will the videos and photos that I have taken will be erased if I come back from the past? 09:35 – Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? 17:39 – Where are all the cryptid sightings coming from, especially in national parks? 28:44 – Archeologists have discovered that there was a small Christian community in the city of Pompeii before the Vesuvius eruption. What if, by some miracle, a scroll somehow survived in the city, with the text of something that claimed to be a “Letter of Paul to the Pompeians”? It follows the format of the universally accepted Pauline epistles, it doesn’t contradict anything Paul wrote previously, and it ultimately seems to be genuinely from Paul. How do you think the Church would respond to the situation? 41:48 – What are the top three (or any other arbitrary number) lost books you would love to have? Tell us about them, and tell us why you would love to have them. I’d like to read the Gospel of the Hebrews, for example, in its entirety (instead of the fragments left behind in writings by the early Church Fathers). 50:43 – Does the Highlander have a soul since he is immortal? Would an immortal being need a soul? 52:13 – Does baptism apply to a person’s entire body? For example, if technology were such that my body died but one cell remained alive and I was regrown immediately from that cell, is my baptism still valid or does the regrown body need to be baptized? Similarly, if a baptized person’s heart (or other organ) is transplanted into another non-baptized person does the organ from the baptized body transmit its baptismal graces to the new body? …

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0:00.0

We have a lot of fun on Friday doing weird questions with Jimmy Aiken.

0:20.1

Your weird questions come to us all different ways and we can collect it up here and Jimmy

0:25.9

answers them.

0:26.9

So you don't have to call today.

0:28.2

All the questions are here.

0:29.2

Jimmy is senior apologist here at Catholic Gants.

0:30.9

He's the proprietor, as I said, last hour of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

0:34.9

Of course, also the author of all kinds of things, including the Bible was a Catholic book

0:39.2

and a daily defense 365 days plus one to becoming a better apologist.

0:44.3

Jimmy, thanks for coming back with us again.

0:46.6

My pleasure.

0:47.6

We've time traveled at a rate of one second per second to get here from last hour.

0:56.2

We start with a time travel question, as a matter of fact.

0:58.0

Jonathan asks, does time travel exist?

1:03.4

Well, in a basic form, the answer is clearly yes, as we've discussed previously.

1:09.1

We all travel into the future at a rate of one second per second in our local frame

1:14.1

of reference.

1:15.4

And it's possible to vary the rate of travel by things like acceleration because as you

1:25.8

go faster, a time move slower in your frame of reference.

1:31.3

So when you decelerate again, more time will have passed, say, on earth, while you were

1:37.8

out gallivating in space, going at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.

1:43.2

Also time slows down under the influence of gravity.

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