#11930 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 01:48 – What do you mean that it is ok to believe Adam and Eve are symbolic? 06:20 – What are the restrictions on Fridays? Does that include all animal products or just animal flesh? 10:22 – Why did God mandate Hosea to have relations with the prostitutes? 15:08 – Can we truly know if we are saved? 19:10 – I found a ring with the initials SMOTJ. I discovered it was the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem. What is it and is it Catholic? 22:30 – How do I respond to the claim that there is no evidence that the Deuterocanon was not included in the original canon of the Old Testament? 29:04 – Once you discover the talents that God has given you, how do you use them to the best of your abilities? 30:52 – Is polygamy acceptable in an apocalyptic situation? 37:12 – Why don’t Catholics baptize by immersion and in the name of Jesus? 43:40 – Do you have any speculation as to why the book Esther wasn’t found in the dead sea scrolls? 46:45 – When did the bread that Jesus had at the last supper turn into his body and blood? 50:17 – What are your thoughts on Dr Scott Hahn’s theory and book on the Fourth Cup? 52:36 – Is the Church’s definition of death, the separation of body and soul? Would Elijah resurrect a child in 1 Kings 17:17-24 back up this definition? …

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome back to Catholic Answers Live. It's a show so nice, we got to do it twice. We just wrapped up one hour Ask Me Anything with Jimmy Aiken, and we thought, let's do the same thing all over again.
0:40.4	Let's have Jimmy Aiken back for another hour of Ask Me Anything.
0:43.7	I am not Cy Kellett.
0:45.1	I am Thomas Graff, the social media manager here at Catholic Answers.
0:48.7	Pray for Sykelet, nothing's wrong.
0:50.0	He's just traveling.
0:50.9	You know how traveling is. He's coming back from North Dakota. God willing, he ends up back here on Monday, and he's not caught in some crazy planes, trains, and automobiles like caper that leaves him stranded somewhere out.
1:01.2	Who knows in the Rockies or something?
1:03.1	Anything besides that, because we want it back here in this chair and hosting this show that today is, as I said, Ask Me Anything with Jimmy Aiken.
1:12.1	Jimmy Aiken, of course, you know him as our senior apologist here at Catholic Answers,
1:16.1	author of books such as a Daily Defense, The Words of Eternal Life,
1:19.8	teaching with authority, the Bible is a Catholic book,
1:21.9	and owner and proprietor of multiple podcasts, most notably Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and the new the Jimmy Aiken podcast
1:30.1	Mysteries of the Faith. Jimmy Aiken, welcome back to Hour 2 of our show with you today. Are you ready to
1:36.8	dive into more questions? Oh, yeah. Okay, let's dive right in to the question from Anne calling from
1:43.4	Colorado. Anne, you're on the air. Go ahead
1:46.2	with your question for Jimmy Aiken. You're doing a terrific job. Oh, thank you so much, Ann. I appreciate that.
1:53.3	Yeah. Anyway, this harkens back to a question you answered already, but I would like you to clarify it a little bit
2:01.1	on Adam and Eve, whether they exist. You said they can be symbolic. Does that mean that they're
2:07.8	not real historical figures? Well, I mentioned three options. One was Adam and Eve were two
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