#12021 AMA: Second Amendment Morality, Dinosaurs in the Bible, Divine Simplicity, and the Tower of Babel - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 02:01 – At what point do you think pursuing the rights in the second amendment becomes sinful? 08:10 – Are there dinosaurs in the Bible? 12:41 – How does the incarnation not defy divine simplicity? 16:09 – If faith is a grace from God, why does not everyone be given all the grace they need? In the parable of the sower, why isn’t everyone made into good soil, is it simply due to free will that even given all the grace in the world some people for whatever reason would still say no? Thank you for your time, Mr. Akin. 20:05 – With what level of certainty can we say where someone is in the afterlife apart from extraordinary means like canonization. Secondly what are good ways to communicate this appropriate level of certainty to those grieving the loss of someone they love. 29:05 – I travel quite a bit. Missing mass and days of obligation happen unfortunately. Should I seek a dispensation from my pastor? What should my approach be? 34:17 – I understand that the “Law of the Conservation of Mass,” applies to chemical reactions. However, when considering the bodily assumption of our Blessed Mother, and the ascension of Jesus into heaven, how is the Law of the Conservation of Mass applied? I understand that heaven isn’t “somewhere else,” but “somehow else.” Then how is Mass conserved between our physical realm to the spiritual realm where our Lord and Lady exist? 40:25 – How does one justify or condemn the use of nuclear weapons? More specifically how do you weigh the deaths of Japanese children against the potential deaths of American soldiers? (From a Catholic perspective) 48:30 – Would Jesus’ family be considered poor compared to the average family in Nazareth? If so, would that have something to do with not being able to find room at the inn in Bethlehem? 53:03 – I don’t know if this counts as normal or weird, but I’ve started to get into linguistics and I was wondering how we should think of the Tower of Babel story? Thanks! …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Kathy Answers Live. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. Delighted to be here with you.
0:19.8	And to have two hours with Jimmy Aiken for an Ask Me Anything. It won't be given out the phone number because it's an internet version of an Ask Me Anything. And that means I get to read the questions, but I also get to read the names because people give themselves nom to the internet and they're fun to read. Jimmy Aiken, of course, senior apologist here at
0:38.5	Catholic Answers, the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, one of the most popular
0:43.2	podcasts in the world, and of the newer podcast, the Jimmy Aiken podcast. Hello, Jimmy Aiken.
0:50.9	Hello, Cykele, how you doing? I am doing very, very well.
1:01.0	And when I say that the mysterious world is one of the most popular podcasts, you consistent, that consistently ranks in the what, top 10, top 20 of documentary podcasts?
1:06.5	Top 20, top 25, yeah.
1:08.8	Yeah.
1:10.2	And there's hundreds and hundreds of episodes. so if you haven't heard all the mysteries,
1:14.6	well, you're pretty good if you've heard all the mysteries, but if you haven't heard, check them out.
1:20.6	I guarantee to be a mystery for you. In more than 300 mysteries, there's guaranteed to be one for you. As I said, I won't be given out
1:29.6	the number because the questions are already in. And Jimmy, I think you added spaces to these
1:35.4	names for me. I'm looking through them. Yep. You're helping me pronounce them today.
1:39.6	All right, well, we'll see if it helps. Well, you never know. Let's start right in. Germsill 3 wants to
1:48.9	start us off. And here's the question. At what point do you think pursuing the rights in the
1:55.8	Second Amendment becomes sinful? Okay. So anytime we're talking about a text, it's helpful to review the text.
2:04.0	So what the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution says is a well-regulated militia,
2:09.6	being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
2:16.5	So this is dealing with two rights, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. So this is, this is dealing with two
2:19.6	rights, the right to keep arms, which means own them, and the right to bear arms, which means
2:25.9	carry them around. And for a good bit of recent history, there was a question about what's all this stuff about a well-regulated
2:38.1	militia and being necessary to the security of a free state. What does that mean? Today, and this is
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