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#11738 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 01:27 – What is the history of the use of the tetragrammaton/divine name in worship, particularly as it relates to Jehovah’s Witnesses? 07:44 – I heard your show where you mentioned a study in India on near death experiences where the people in India would see some spirits that were either good or evil spirits. Christians see angels, good or bad. So non-believers could argue that the fact that people don’t see the same thing is proof that these visions are due only to chemical reactions of a dying brain. How would you respond? 13:52 – What would be the best way for us as Catholics to answer some Protestants who claim what’s happening in Israel right now has to do with the 2nd coming of Jesus that in there minds is gonna happen soon or at any moment? 17:49 – Which allegedly evidential NDE do you think is the strongest? 23:57 – If the Pope has the keys to heaven and hell, could the Pope/Church canonize someone that God would not have allowed into heaven by ordinary means, but since the church/pope utilized the authority of those keys they now get in? what about the reverse a just person going to hell because the church invoked the keys of authority to condemn them? 28:25 – From what I understand, the Jesuits are not allowed to hold positions of Authority or power. Is this true? And if so, did it change to permit Pope Francis to be Pope? 29:55 – Maybe better for a weird questions episode but I recently had several blessed, holy objects go missing around the house and it occurred to me, if it WAS demons, is there 34:53 – From my 15 year old : Is God alive both scientifically as well as theologically? 39:30 – From my 13 year old: In the Skinwalker Ranch episode of Mysterious World there were three wolf- like activities and one of them was a wolf-like creature running around in the horse pen. One thing that I realized was that the description for the wolf was almost the same as the beast of Gevaudan. Do you think the beast could have been a skin walker? They were both red, had poofy tails, head like a wolf, heyena like bodies and boar like legs. I’d like to hear your thoughts. 43:51 – I remember a very helpful episode where you discussed the career of Dr. Steven Greer. I have been very curious about what you know about the legitimacy of the UAP claims by Bob Lazar and David Grusch? 48:56 – How can we better understand the word “Belief” with regards to God and our faith, and do Catholics and Protestants (specifically Lutherans, understand this idea of belief in God differently). Is it just about saying you know of God’s existence and profess to others that you know and understand of his existence; or, is there a deeper understanding of “belief in God” which also calls us to act or respond to this understanding of “belief” in Him. If there is a deeper understanding (or action) of belief, where do we find this ( in history, in scripture, or in the actual definition in or meaning of the word)? …

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I'm going to Welcome back.

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Catholic Answers Live, Jimmy Aiken, our guest, and we continue with an internet.

0:20.7

Ask Me Anything.

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All the questions have come to us via the internet.

0:24.6

Jimmy Aiken, of course, senior apologist here at Cathay Gantz was the author of A Daily Defense,

0:30.0

365 days plus one to becoming a better apologist and many other things.

0:35.3

The proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

0:37.8

Thanks for being back for another hour, Jimmy.

0:40.6

Yeah, my pleasure.

0:42.1

By the way, during the break, I looked up the title of that book that I mentioned last hour by the pair anthropologist Jack Hunter and it's called Deep Weird, the varieties of high strangeness experience and it's

0:57.6

an anthology so he's got different authors writing in it. But my experience when I read it was, yeah, I've heard weirder.

1:06.0

This isn't particularly deeply weird to me.

1:09.0

Deep weird. That's a good title though.

1:13.0

It's not like that could be a nickname.

1:15.0

I gotta think of who I can apply that nickname to.

1:18.0

Not you, Darren. You're not deep weird.

1:21.0

You're not now.

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All right, back to the internet we go for our questions. We got a bunch of

1:25.9

them for Jimmy. This one comes from Brady.

1:28.8

Darren might be pleasantly weird. Yes, yeah, look at that, Darren,

1:34.9

he seems so satisfied with that as his nickname.

1:37.2

He seems genuinely happy that that's his nickname.

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