#12029 AMA: Souls and Transformation, Tradition, Middle Knowledge, and More - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 04:09 – In the scenario that a person is changed into an object or an animal since the rational soul is the form of the body and the body changes, does that mean the person dies? 11:10 – 2 Tim 1:12-14 Does the Greek version indicate that the deposit will be preserved? 17:55 – I was baptized in the Mormon church. How do I go about being a part of the Catholic Church? 20:58 – How is prayer efficacious? I know God’s not a genie in a bottle. 29:48 – Didn’t the church prosecute Galileo for contradicting the churches flat-earth biblical models? 32:30 – How does the Catholic Church understand 2.Thess 2:15 specifically the oral tradition part? Is this the tradition of the Church? 37:19 – How do you reconcile middle knowledge and prophecy? 43:50 – What is your opinion on Louisa Piccerta and the Divine Will movement? 48:51 – Can someone know whether they have perfect or imperfect contrition? …

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0:35.1	Jimmy Aiken both hours.
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0:50.1	Jimmy, of course, author of The Bible is a Catholic book and a daily defense, 365 days plus one to becoming a better apologists, and many other things, and the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and the Jimmy Aiken podcast. The list is getting longer and longer. Hello, Jimmy Aiken.
1:07.8	Hello, Cykele, how you doing? I am doing really, really well.
1:13.7	What dropped this morning on Jimmy Aken's Mysterious World?
1:21.8	It's part two of a look at the early Judeo-Christian writing known as the Life of Adam and Eve.
1:28.3	Last week we looked at the beginning of the book where Adam and Eve have just been kicked out of the Garden of Eden. So what's the first thing you do when you get kicked out of paradise? And what's the
1:32.8	second thing you do? And it's really an interesting story. The last week we looked at it up to
1:39.8	Adam's final illness. And so in this week's episode, we look at the death of Adam and then the
1:47.0	death of Eve. And this was the first time anybody had been buried on Earth. So, you know,
1:53.9	how did they learn about burial and stuff like that? As well as containing a bunch of interest in
2:00.0	stuff from the Greek version of the book,
2:02.6	where Eve tells her story about all the stuff that happened. So it's a really fascinating book.
2:09.4	That is, so somebody's like, it's almost like a speculative fiction, right? I've thought, well,
2:14.7	okay, let me reason this out. What would have happened? How would you go go about the first burial? Yeah. It's a lot like that. And periodically through the book, I mean,
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