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#11276 How to Explain Purgatory to a Protestant Who Doesn’t Accept Maccabees? - Joe Heschmeyer

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 04:15 – I heard from a bishop that sexual immorality wasn’t considered grave matter until the 17th century. Is there any credence to this? 07:04 – If we believe that the Eucharist is the body of Christ, why do we do it every mass? 11:58 – How can the pope be infallible if humans are fallible? 15:00 – My protestant friend compares images of Jesus with his hand blessing and the image of Baphomet. How do I respond to this? 19:12 – When we die and go to heaven, what’s the point of the second judgment? 28:50 – If mortal sin requires full knowledge and grave matter, why was Adam’s sin considered grave if it sounds more like curiosity? 34:45 – How did the apostles know who Moses and Elijah were during the transfiguration? 40:38 – How do I explain purgatory to a protestant who doesn’t accept Maccabees? 45:56 – Why was Jesus allowed to teach in the synagogue without a formal educational upbringing? 48:04 – Why can’t we accept the eucharist as symbolic if all the other sacraments are symbolic gestures and yet still efficacious? 51:24 – How do you reconcile Isaiah’s prophecy of the woman not having birth pains and Revelation’s prophecy of the woman suffering birth pains? …

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Welcome back, Catholic Dance was live Wednesday afternoon.

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So happy you're here with us.

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Thank you for being here with us.

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It's open forum, which is kind of nice to have a Wednesday open forum where you can

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ask whatever you like.

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And it's awful nice to have Joe Hashmire here with us for both hours.

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Joe, the author of a brand new book called The Eucharist is really Jesus.

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And he's the author of a bunch of very, very fine books.

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Father of two, getting ready to be the father of three wonderful speakers.

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I actually already have the father of three.

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Because the conception sign, but you know what?

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But you know what?

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Actually has an article on Catholic Church website responding to people who are bad and

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it's about that.

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Oh my god.

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There's still something where you enter fatherhood in a new way at birth.

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That's like Jim.

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Okay.

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All right.

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All right.

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All right.

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I'm deeply hurt and offended.

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