#11950 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions covered: 03:35 – In John 17, when Jesus prays “that they may be one,” I can’t help but wonder if the way he phrases it there implies that the Church wouldn’t be one. Is that the case? 07:08 – What is the logical path from deism to Catholicism? 15:17 – Why was the death penalty allowed in some circumstances in the Old Testament when the person wasn’t a threat to the society? 28:55 – Why isn’t Thomas à Kempis a saint? 31:34 – What are Jimmy’s thoughts about how advanced ancient civilizations fit into the history of the Bible? 38:15 – Could a Catholic read Jesus’ teachings in terms of a midrasch? 42:40 – Were there two different creations of humans, since Genesis records two accounts? 45:52 – If there are ghosts haunting churches, what are their souls doing here on earth instead of being with the father? 51:27 – In a state of mortal sin, what helps are there for overcoming that sin? …

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live.
0:32.4	My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for Catholic Answers Live and filling in for Sykelet today.
0:38.2	As promised, we have Jimmy Aiken here for the second hour,
0:42.2	author of a bunch of books, which I'm not going to name off, but yeah, a bunch of books
0:47.4	and host of two prominent podcasts right now, Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and Catholic Answers on Jimmy
0:55.5	Aiken podcast. Jimmy, welcome to the show. Howdy, Edgar? How you doing? Doing great. Loving life right now,
1:02.1	which is a good thing. But, well, it's Friday, and we all, what the world already knows,
1:08.6	Friday means a new episode of Mysterious World.
1:12.1	So what's today's episode about?
1:17.8	Yeah, well, so this Monday, we had a new episode of the Jimmy Aiken podcast come out, and it was about a debater's tactic called the Gish Gallup, which is where one person, usually because
1:23.7	they sense their own cases weak, tries to change the subject by throwing out charge after
1:29.5	charge after charge after charge that their opponent has no time to respond to. And this is used by
1:35.9	various debaters, among them, James White. And so I had a couple of debates with James White a few
1:41.9	months ago. He used the gish gallop in both of them, and I thought, well, this is an educational
1:47.0	opportunity.
1:47.9	Let's take some clips of him using the Gish Gallop.
1:50.4	And so we ring a bell every time he uses a new charge.
1:54.4	They didn't one of the ones we're here to debate.
1:56.8	And people have found it very entertaining.
2:00.3	So that was the Jimmy Aiken podcast.
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