#11158 Open Forum - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 03:06 – Is Michael Heiser a heretic? Why are so many Protestants intrigued by his teachings? 11:04 – This question has always been on my mind. The Bible periodically speaks of God as being the One True God. Or mentions, as I paraphrase, “no other gods are like our God.” What’s the faith teach about “other gods?” Are the Hindu, Buddhist, Greek, Roman, Mayan, etc., gods real to an extent? I always wondered if they could have been demons or fallen angels manipulating things on earth. Would love to explore that topic of other gods and their legitimacy. 18:28 – I learned from a Catholic trivia game that “as a result of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the moon is considered part of the Diocese of Orlando, FL.” There was no citation, however. What is the law in question and how does it apply to the moon when it was promulgated before space exploration began? 28:27 – I love my wife, my cats, my country, and cheesecake. Why then do I find it so hard to believe that I love the Lord? Considering all that the Lord has done, I feel I should be positively burning with love and gratitude and that I should actively live each moment of my life in His service. Yet, I get caught up in life, I sin, and that burning devotion never really materializes. I am left feeling selfish and ungrateful. I pray, I try to keep the commandments, and I avail myself of the sacraments, but if you ask “Do you love the Lord?” I will hesitate. If I really DID love Him, I’d be a better person, less of a sinner, and my love for Him would burn far greater than my fear of His judgement. Right? I certainly have FEAR of the Lord. My greatest longing is to be numbered among His sheep. My greatest terror is to be cast out with the goats, even though I deserve it. Is this just scrupulosity? Am I being too hard on myself? Can love and fear of the Lord be the same thing? Am I missing something important that I need to change? 34:20 – If, as written, a wife needs to submit to her husband and a husband should love his wife like Christ loves the church. How does this make sense if the wife must in some relationships make a much better leader? Is it really the teaching that a family may suffer if absolutely the inadequate person is the leader? Is it church teaching that a woman cannot be a better head than any man? Resource: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/spiritual-headship 42:14 – Can saints (and demons for that matter) hear our thoughts? If not, is silent prayer to saints therefore useless? …

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. Thanks so much for being here with us on this Thursday afternoon, at least where we are. Maybe it's Thursday evening or even Friday morning, where you are, wherever you are. We're glad you're here with us.
0:26.0	If you've already celebrated it, excuse me for saying it, but for us, it's still the feast day, so I will say a very happy and blessed feast of the Ascension of the Lord.
0:38.0	And we're off today, and all of our questions come from the Internet. It's an Internet Open Forum. Jimmy Aiken is our guest. We always have fun doing this.
0:46.0	We had started doing weird questions, and that became a whole different thing we do. Weird questions with Jimmy Aiken.
0:54.0	And so this is like normal. What do we call this? There's no music for this, I mean, Darren, there's no special music. We need some really normal music for normal questions for Jimmy Aiken.
1:04.0	One thing I really like about the Internet Open Forms, though, is there are a lot of times there are questions that we won't hear from a caller because the person needed to write it out or because
1:14.0	we get to kind of curate them a little bit. So I like these programs, and I hope you will as well for the next hour.
1:23.0	Jimmy Aiken is a senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.
1:30.0	Thank you for coming back and being with us again, Jimmy Aiken.
1:33.0	My pleasure, so I tell it.
1:35.0	When I mention it last hour, but I want to mention it again tomorrow, we find out, I mean, tomorrow on Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world, we find out
1:45.0	about a scientific experiment to weigh the soul to find out how much the soul weighs.
1:54.0	And there have been some surprising results that came back from this experiment.
2:02.0	It's been done a few times by different people. And one thing that's consistent about the results is they are surprising.
2:09.0	How interesting. So the somehow you lose mass at the moment of death is what the, what the, um, or gain it.
2:20.0	Oh, really? Oh, well, I'm definitely not dying. Then I cannot. Yeah. I will not be able to fit into my pants at the funeral.
2:26.0	Yeah. Well, it's a really weird situation. I actually talk in the episode. I know one of the people who's done a version of this experiment.
2:34.0	And, um, and he got some surprising results. And I actually interview him in the show. And then I talk about, so what could explain the results that these different scientists got?
2:47.0	Oh, I can't wait to find out. It's just such a weird thing. It's weird that anybody even thought to do the experiment. But I, but people think of clever things.
2:56.0	And it's more than 100 years they've been doing this experiment now. As you said, it was first first done in like 1901.
3:02.0	All right. Here we go back to the internet for internet questions for Jimmy. This one comes from Suzanne who asks, is Michael Heiser a heretic? Why are so many Protestants intrigued by his teachings?
3:14.0	Okay. So let's talk about who Michael Heiser was. He was an evangelical scholar.
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