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#11084 What is the Relationship Between Salvation and Good Works? - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Open Forum – Questions Covered: 02:29 – Regarding two people who have divorced and remarried and now live as brother and sister. What is the Church’s position on receiving communion? Is this a temporary arrangement that needs to be resolved by separation. What does scandal mean in this situation? 12:14 – Do you think it’s important to consider false flag heresies in the secular world? 20:27 – How does God exact his judgment, particularly in the Old Testament? 32:17 – What is the relationship between salvation and good works? 42:57 – What does it mean to carry your own cross? 51:54 – Is it possible that God can appear to us by appearing as a random person? …

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As promised, and it's open for him, 888-318-7884, the number triple-8, 318-7884, if you

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got a question about the Catholic faith, whether you're Catholic or not, this is your hour

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Tim Staples, Senior Apologist here at Catholic Answers, the author of Behold Your Mother, a Biblical

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and Historical Defense of the Marion Doctrine, and many other things, Tim Staples. Thank

0:37.4

you for being here. It is absolutely wonderful to be here. And you've been in the old Texas

0:42.8

town of Laredo. Yes, I was. And I messed up for the folks listening right now in Laredo

0:49.3

last week when I was on. I said I was going to Texas A&M, which was true, but not the big

0:55.9

one in college station. This was Texas A&M International, their campus in Laredo. Beautiful

1:03.7

campus, by the way. It was absolutely awesome. And they had a big old diocesan event there

1:10.4

with Bishop Tamayo, who's a wonderful bishop. A man just so full of joy. Oh, that's wonderful

1:18.2

when you have a bishop like that. Man, I tell you, that man just, he glows. And I'd actually

1:24.7

met him before I thought he's not going to remember it. And he says, Tim, how are you?

1:29.0

And I'm like, wow, okay, great. Anyway, it was a really, really great conference. Got

1:35.2

to see Dr. Bergzmann. Oh, he's good, John Bergzmann. Oh, man. He's just brilliant. The

1:41.9

dude's scary brilliant, you know, but it was just great. And the people there were absolutely

1:46.7

fanned out. But anyway, I did a Easter broadcast for them that they're going to run after Easter,

1:55.2

kind of like what you and I did. Yeah. Yeah. And it was fantastic. But anyway, just a wonderful

2:00.7

experience in Laredo. Well, if they want you to know where Texas A&M is, put it in one

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place. Don't put it all over the place. Where you got to know the different Texas A&M.

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The campus has like 100,000 students or something, you know, 75,000. It's unbelievable. Yeah.

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Eight at eight, three, one, eight, seven, eight, eight, four is the number. You got

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any place you're traveling soon? Like do it. You want to tell us about anything? I haven't

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