#12037 Questions from Non-Catholics - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

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Questions Covered: 05:42 – Can you become Catholic on your deathbed? 15:01 – My wife and I are Protestant, but I’m leaning towards Catholicism. What becomes of our marriage? Do I have to divorce her to become Catholic? 28:51 – My daughter and I listened to (Lutheran). If God is all-knowing, why did He create Satan, and why did He create people who would go/choose Hell? 43:10 – I’m converting this Easter, but my family is anti-Catholic. How can I better explain Catholic beliefs to my family and make them sound reasonable? 48:20 – I left the Protestant Church and I’m learning about Catholicism, but my wife has a hard time with faith vs. works. Can you provide some insight on how to help her understand the difference between faith and works? …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. Got Tim Staples
0:19.6	both hours, but we're holding the phone for non-Catholics. It's an Ask Me Anything hour, this hour, and next hour. Yes. For non-Catholics, if you're not a Catholic, 888-8-8-4. If you are a Catholic, just hang on because these are some great conversations, and it's great when we get the opportunity to do this with Tim, especially, those who don't know.
0:39.1	Tim is himself a convert to the Catholic faith from, I don't know how many different things.
0:45.2	Southern Baptist and the Assemblies of God.
0:47.6	Okay, all right, from two different things.
0:51.3	And if you are a non-Catholic Christian, if you are a non-Christian, if you are a non-believer,
0:59.0	whatever.
0:59.8	If you're not Catholic, this hour is for you.
1:02.3	888-3187-884.
1:04.3	I think you're pretty willing to talk to people, though.
1:07.5	Like, I was raised Catholic, but I haven't practiced for 20 years.
1:11.1	Yeah, okay, well technically you're Catholic, but we're not we're not going by technical.
1:15.6	That's right. We're going by common sense. And remember too when you when you talk, oh, I don't know if you just mentioned this. I don't think you did, but if you're in our, excuse me, O-C-I-A, if you're on your way to the Catholic
1:29.7	faith, you are welcome to call as well. And remember, I was not only raised a Southern Baptist,
1:35.8	good old evangelical, later became a minister in an assembly of God community, but I was also
1:43.3	Calvinist for a month.
1:45.1	See, I knew there was good.
1:47.2	There was more to this story.
1:48.5	And I studied with Jehovah's Witnesses.
1:50.2	Now, that was many years back before I had my reconversion to the Assemblies of God.
1:57.8	But my brother, Ted, and I studied with the Jehovah's Witnesses.
2:02.2	It was more, you know, just to have a little fun.
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