#11368 How Do You Explain Death before the Fall? - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Open Forum – Questions Covered: 01:05 – Is there any validity to the claim that the veil torn in the temple during the death of Christ was made by the Virgin Mary? 07:20 – My Orthodox friends consider ecumenism to be heresy. Why don’t we consider it so? 16:42 – Where can I find in the bible that the Catholic Church is the church that Jesus founded? 28:37 – Am I opening myself to the demonic world if I go to a haunted house? 34:06 – How does the Church explain death before the fall especially if Catholicism isn’t in tension with evolution? 42:08 – I’m not Catholic. My Catholic family always pushes Fatima. It doesn’t seem spectacular as they make it. Am I missing something? 50:53 – My religion teacher told us that Jesus wasn’t actually born on December 25th. Is this true? 53:18 – Why doesn’t the pope approve of Medjugorje? …

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Music
0:17.0	Welcome to the second hour, 888-318-7884, 888-318-7884.
0:27.0	My name is Chris Check. I am the president of Catholic Answers. I'm sitting in Forsyre
0:31.4	Kelet, who's in Perth, Australia, and we'll be back in this chair next week.
0:37.0	Coming up on the show tomorrow, two hours of Carlo Broussard, including the
0:43.0	Game Show. Very popular, C. Zach, right? It's popular, isn't it? Yeah, Zach's giving
0:49.4	me the thumbs up. So tune in for Carlo and the Catholic Answers Game Show tomorrow.
0:53.4	One more hour with the great Jimmy A. Can Senior Apologist, the Catholic Answers answering
0:58.0	all your questions. Jimmy, we got a ton of questions. Let's just hit it. What do you think?
1:03.0	Okay. Jeremy and Dallas, Texas, watching on Twitch. Welcome to Catholic Answers Live.
1:13.4	Good afternoon, gentlemen. I have been listening to a couple of different
1:17.4	Catholicologists and I guess theologist online, and someone had made the claim that the
1:25.8	Temple Vale that was torn when Christ died on the cross was possibly sewn by his mother Mary
1:33.4	when she was a child. And I was wondering if there was any validity to that claim.
1:40.6	Okay. Well, if the claim is just that it's possible, I mean, possible can mean a number
1:46.8	of different things. In the broadest sense, something as logically possible as long as the
1:51.5	terms don't contain a contradiction like, you know, foresighted triangle or, you know, square
1:57.6	circle. And well, it's certainly logically possible that the Virgin Mary could have
2:03.2	could have sewn that that that Temple Vale when she was a child because there's no logical
2:09.0	contradiction involved in making the claim. But I, but that's a separate question from, is it
2:14.8	it all probable? Okay. What can we say about that? Well, so I have encountered people who, or
2:24.6	I have encountered the claim that Christ's mother was a, a worker, a tapestry worker at the Temple.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Catholic Answers, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Catholic Answers and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.