#12060 AMA: Catholicism - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 00:54 – I heard the words “Be aware” just prior to witnessing an attempted kidnapping; how should I interpret this? 09:34 – Is there significance in everything? 12:07 – In Gen 24, Abraham asks his servant to place his hand under his thigh when making a promise. Why is placing the hand under his thigh considered important to the oath? 18:06 – How would you respond to the claim of the deuterocanonical books (second canon) not being canon? 20:42 – What does the Pope mean by “All religions are paths to God”? 29:15 – Is Rabbonic Judaism a response to Christianity? What are we to think of this religion as Catholics? 44:06 – I grew up in a Protestant Church, fell away, and am now warming up to Catholicism; how do I approach my parents who are Anti-Catholic? 52:46 – Is forgiveness more of an internal process or an external process? …

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0:37.4	Second hour, we continue with an Ask Me Anything on Catholicism with Jimmy Aiken.
0:43.1	I've been having some really great calls, so we're going to go ahead and continue.
0:46.3	Shall we jump right back in?
0:48.4	Yeah, sure.
0:49.1	All right, perfect.
0:49.7	We go over to Terry in Tulsa, Oklahoma, watching on YouTube.
0:54.0	Terry, welcome to the show. Go right ahead with your question.sa, Oklahoma. She's watching on YouTube. Terry, welcome to the show.
0:55.0	Go right ahead with your question.
0:57.3	Hi, Jimmy.
0:58.8	I want to know if this was the Holy Spirit or my guardian angel.
1:05.0	I pulled up to, in a shopping mall, parked, and as I was getting out, I heard the words be aware in my head.
1:15.4	And I walked on. I was almost to the door, and I heard a woman screaming. I turned around. She was in a car in the driver's seat,
1:24.6	and there was a guy in the backseat with a knife to her throat.
1:28.8	She was able to get out and he sped off.
1:33.0	But hearing those words, I know it was from somebody else.
1:38.3	I didn't think them.
1:40.5	Okay.
1:41.8	Did you get a sense of what the purpose of the words were? Was it so that you could be aware in order to protect yourself or be aware to get out of the way of the car or protect her or someone else?
1:58.4	Or who was, for whose benefit were you being told to be aware
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