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Catholic Answers Live

#11058 Open Forum - Jimmy Akin

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Open Forum – Questions Covered: 01:36 – When someone goes to hell and we pray for them, what happens to these prayers? 04:01 – Why did John the Baptist send one of his disciples to find out if Jesus was the messiah if he already knew who Jesus was? 07:39 – When Jacob wrestled with an angel, the bible says that God failed to win him over. How could God fail? Am I reading this properly? 14:12 – Do the Jews today still believe in praying for the dead? 16:37 – What makes a good confession during lent? 20:23 – How do we reconcile the historical clues that Judaism and Christianity come from a polytheistic religion? 24:06 – Who was Joseph’s first wife before he married Mary? 28:51 – What is the significance of the centurion proclamation that Jesus is God at the crucifixion? 30:19 – Phil 2:7-9 Why does Paul say that “because of this God greatly exalted him?” The ‘because’ is confusing me. 34:31 – Why is it tradition for a woman to take a man’s last name after they get married? 44:43 – How much of the 9 choirs of angels is speculation vs Church teaching? 49:01 – Why is it a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sundays? 52:30 – In Delaware they’re trying to make a priest record confessions and report illegal activity. What are your thoughts on this? …

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Catholic Dance was live.

0:18.5

I am Cy Kelly your host admitting that I'm slightly disappointed that we have not had any

0:22.5

groovy music today but maybe there's still an hour to go, there perhaps there will be

0:27.1

some.

0:28.1

Our guests it's always fun when Jimmy's here for both hours on Thursday we get to take

0:32.0

tons of questions and so many of them interesting and we've got a whole bunch on the line right

0:37.8

now.

0:38.8

Let me see if there's any lines open, not a single line open at the moment so lots and

0:42.1

lots of work to do Jimmy Aiken of course as I said last hour senior upologist here at

0:47.1

Catholic Answers and the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world where tomorrow drops

0:54.9

which is called the Hess mysteries or the Hess conspiracy because he's there were a number

1:00.4

of conspiracies proposed connected with the deputy furor Rudolf Hess deputy furor not a

1:09.2

title you want so what happened with Hess find out tomorrow you can easily get the podcast

1:15.0

just go to mysterious.fm or just search Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world and you will come

1:21.8

upon it I don't know what to call the next caller Fresno calisthenia oh call him Ishmael

1:29.2

okay Ishmael okay it's spelled there's no age Ishmael you there yeah all right I'm glad

1:37.6

you're here how old are you I am eight well thank you very much for calling do you listen

1:44.4

very much yeah sometimes with my mom very nice I'm glad to hear that well you

1:51.7

go ahead with your question from Ishmael okay so whenever someone goes to hell and we pray for

2:00.5

them where do those prayers go well they go to God and the question is what does God do with them

2:08.2

then and we don't really know because God hasn't told us what he does in that situation it is

2:15.6

possible that he and you sometimes hear people suggest that if we're praying for someone

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