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#11683 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 02:48 – A gym that I want to join does yoga and reiki. Is it ok for me to join even if I wouldn’t partake in those activities? 05:38 – Why does our Lord tell us to pray and ask him for what we want but also tell us to radically surrender to him? This seems contradictory. 10:10 – Regarding your debate alongside Trent on salvation. What are you depending upon when it comes to salvation? 18:38 – Is there biblical proof for different levels of heaven? 23:53 – Regarding the infallibility of the pope. Should we never question what the pope says or does? 29:20 – My friend asked why we pray to saints. How do I reply? 33:03 – How do we find out what is actually Church teaching vs what’s just popular opinion? 35:25 – How can the Catholic Church view Orthodox weddings valid if there is no exchange of vows during the liturgy? 41:22 – What’s the Church’s teaching on if Mary had knowledge of Jesus’ divinity? 44:35 – How does sanctification fit into the conversation of justification? 48:42 – When we talk to Protestants, what should be the approach to a lifelong Protestant vs a convert from Catholicism? 51:06 – Germanus of Constantinople said we did not need any other mediator besides Jesus. What’s the Church’s response to this? …

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I'm going to Hello and

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welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Cy Kelle at your host.

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Two hours of Ask Me Anything Today, Jimmy Aiken, first hour.

0:22.0

Second hour, Jim Blackburn, you got a question about the Catholic

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faith, 888-3-187-84.

0:28.2

You want to know about Jesus or the Bible, the sacraments, the teachings of the church, the history, you're welcome to call. the

0:33.3

the sacraments, the teachings of the church, the history, you're welcome to call, 8883,

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1,8, 7, 884.

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And when Jimmy is on a first hour,

0:39.7

actually, asked me anything becomes, asked me anything,

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because, as you know, Jimmy is the proprietor of

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Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world and and interested in just about everything that

0:49.3

moves unless it's sportsball so if you got a question for Jimmy,

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get on now because those lines fill up.

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888 318 318 3187-884.

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Jimmy Aiken, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers,

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the author of The Bible is a Catholic book

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and the proprietor of the aforementioned Jimmy

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Aiken's mysterious world.

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Hello Jimmy Aiken.

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Hello, Saikellet, how you doing?

1:10.2

I'm doing really well and I feel like I've seen you in the white hat before but is this a new white hat or is it's the same one?

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