#11323 Internet Open Forum - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 6:14 – What do you make of the statement in 1 Maccabee 12:21 and it’s accuracy? Could the Greek demonym Danaans be for members of the tribe of Dan, so that some Greeks were once Jews? 14:49 – I understand a common answer on Catholic Answers is that the era of “public revelation” ended with the death of the Apostle John. Any further revelation is considered “private” and not binding to the faithful. My question is, “Why?” Wouldn’t the era public revelation have ended with the Ascension of Christ? If not – and original apostles could add to public revelation, then why not their disciples, and the disciples of their disciples, etc.? 20:06 – I have several follow-up questions to Michael’s question: In Lamentabili Sane, Pope Pius X condemned the following proposition (#21): “Revelation, constituting the object of the Catholic faith, was not complete with the Apostles.” Was there any magisterial precedence for this condemnation? After the publication of Lamentabili Sane, many theologians restated the condemned proposition as a positive statement: “Revelation was completed with the death of the last apostle.” But in more recent years, some theologians are stepping back from that positive statement. If Public Revelation did not end with the death of the last apostle, is there a definite time, event, or condition which closed the era of Revelation? Could you walk us through the steps to show how “Revelation was completed with the death of the last apostle” is not infallible teaching, if that is the case? Thanks in advance! 28:56 – Could the intro to the gospel of John be discussing the pre-incarnate Christ? I’ve heard this as an opinion held by some. Note that the verses talk about Jesus coming into his own before in verses 10 through 13, before announcing he became flesh in Verse 14. Is this a plausible interpretation? Did any of the fathers hold it? 36:37 – The book of Jonah: history or parable? 42:30 – When Jesus performed various miracles in the gospels, why did He tell the recipients not to tell anyone what He had done? Why did He want His miraculous deeds to be kept secret? 47:23 – Could God create a rock too heavy for him to lift? 50:15 – When the stone was rolled back from the tomb, what became of the cord and seal? …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Cavaganza's Live. I am Sy Kelly to your host. Thanks so much for
0:20.8	being here with us. We're off of glad that you take the time because we love doing
0:24.1	this. And this hour, this hour and next hour, open form. It's an internet, open form.
0:29.0	All of our questions have come from the internet. And Jimmy Aiken is our guest. Jimmy,
0:33.0	senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, the author of a daily defense 365 days plus one
0:39.5	to becoming a better apologist. And the Bible is a Catholic book and a whole bunch of other things.
0:45.0	And also the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. Hello, Jimmy Aiken.
0:49.8	Hello, Cyril Kelet. Not tomorrow, but Friday, a new episode of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious
0:54.7	world will drop. What will it be this week? Well, last Friday, we took a look at the
1:00.8	at modern reincarnation research. There are researchers who investigate cases where
1:07.2	typically a child reports memories of a past life and they look at these and they investigate
1:12.6	and see, well, are these supposed memories accurate or not? And then the question is,
1:17.8	how do you explain these cases? And so this Friday, we're going to be looking at theories
1:23.8	that could explain what are called cases of the reincarnation type. And we're going to be looking
1:31.2	at a whole range of theories. And I'm going to be proposing a new theory that I have not seen in
1:37.1	the literature on this, but that I think explains the data very well and easier than other theories
1:44.8	explained it. And this theory does not actually involve reincarnation.
1:50.5	All right, looking forward to that. You know, I was wondering as you're talking,
1:55.2	is you know, they have that thing called Munchausen by proxy?
1:59.2	Is there such a thing as if a child report, like, is there ever a parent who has,
2:03.6	is a disturbed parent, in other words, who has, have we had any evidence of that?
2:08.6	You mean in cases of the reincarnation type? Yeah, where the child cleans your car, but really,
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