#11198 Does God Cause Animal Suffering? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 07:28 – I’m a Baptist considering Catholicism. Can you help clarify how Aquinas is not just reasonable but biblical in his understanding? 17:19 – If God is infinitely greater than man, why do our works matter? 21:29 – How do respond to the claim Act 8:22 is evidence for confessing directly to God? 28:22 – How does irresistible grace differ from efficacious according to Aquinas? 32:52 – If God permits evil so that humans can choose love, can we say the same thing for animal suffering? Can we say they have free will, if not does God cause evil? 43:18 – We see God do a lot of miracles in the bible. Why don’t we see him perform miracles like he did then? 49:00 – How does Luke 20:37 prove that there is a resurrection? 53:06 – Why isn’t the sacrament of penance extended to Protestants? …

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Catholic Dance was live as promised Jimmy Aiken with us this
0:19.2	hour for open form. If you've got a question about any aspect of the Catholic
0:23.6	faith this hour, you're welcome to call 8883187884883187884 Jimmy of course
0:32.9	senior apologist here at Catholic Answers and the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's
0:37.6	mysterious world. Hello Jimmy Aiken. Hello Cyril Kelly. I am very happy to get to
0:43.0	be on the air with you again. What's dropping tomorrow on Jimmy Aiken's mysterious
0:46.1	world? Well tomorrow we're going to be taking a look at an event that occurred in
0:50.6	2002. We're going to be looking at the DC Sniper's case and how it was cracked. This
0:59.0	was something that occurred just a year after 911 and it had people all across the
1:03.7	country scared. I remember even people here in California were scared even though
1:07.2	it was just around Washington, the nation's capital and they cracked the case. They
1:14.6	caught the people who were responsible who were the DC Sniper's and we're going to
1:20.3	tell the story of how that happened. It has some very interesting twists and turns in
1:25.4	it but we're only going to be talking about what the public knew at roughly at the time.
1:32.7	But there is a whole other side to this story that we're going to be talking about next
1:37.9	week because there were other things going on as part of the investigation into catching
1:45.3	the DC Sniper's that the public had no clue about that were not announced to the public
1:51.8	that have never been announced to the public as far as I know by law enforcement officials.
1:56.4	But I'm going to be talking to one of the people who was directly involved and it will
2:01.1	be mind blowing for some people to learn what was also going on at the time of that investigation.
2:07.1	Wow. Wow. And that went on if I recall for weeks, three weeks of the DC Sniper. Yeah.
2:16.1	Oh, Jimmy. Okay. Good. Looking forward to that one. A two-parter. Yeah. In essence, although
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