#12109 Would Adam and Eve’s Sin Affect Humans on Other Planets? And More - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If God created human life on other planets, would original sin apply to them? Jimmy Akin explores this fascinating question and more, including papal authority, Friday fasting rules, and Confession in non-church marriages.

Questions Covered:

03:56 – How do I approach my non-ecclesiastical marriage in terms of the martial embrace and Confession?
11:23 – Can you explain why Christians should be subject to the pope?
13:40 – I had collagen mixed with my coffee today. Is that against the Friday fast and abstinence?
17:13 – Did priests celebrating the Mass at the time of RFK Sr.’s funeral celebrate in English and Latin?
19:20 – Was concelebration allowed before Vatican II?
20:46 – What do you think about the claim “God tortures people in hell for eternity”?
29:22 – My estranged daughter was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder; how should I react to this? Should I go to Confession?
37:34 – If God created human beings on other planets, would the sin of Adam and Eve affect those humans?
42:46 – Can priests forgive excommunications centered around abortion?
46:30 – A pastor I know said that in Hebrews, it proves we no longer need priests; how do I respond to this?
50:44 – How do I remain consistent with my faith while having ADHD and commitment issues?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Cy Kellett. So happy to be back here with you after a little trip up to Fresno and
0:23.3	Vysalia to give a talk and come back. And I want to say a very hearty thank you to Edgar, who
0:28.6	covered for me while I was out, and Thomas the TikTok engine, who covered for me while I was out.
0:32.9	I very much appreciate that. And I'm very grateful to all the folks up in Bysalia who had me come up and
0:38.1	do a breakfast talk, which was a lot of fun.
0:40.7	They have a wonderful Catholic business community up there in Vysalia, California, where all
0:46.5	your almonds come from, and a lot of your olives come from, that part of the world.
0:51.5	Hey, it's asked me anything this hour and next hour. 8883187-884 is the number,
0:59.3	and it's Jimmy Ake in both hours. So it is a great opportunity to call and three lines open. A lot of times
1:05.5	60 seconds into this hour, lines are already full when people know it's Jimmy. So get on those lines if you'd
1:11.7	like to ask him your question. 8883187-884. Jimmy Aiken is the podcaster behind pretty much every
1:19.9	podcast on the internet as far as I know. I don't know. But the two that he makes himself are
1:26.5	Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and the Jimmy Aiken podcast, both extremely popular, author of many books and really one of the originators of the new apologetics movement in media.
1:40.4	Jimmy Aiken, welcome.
1:42.6	How do you, Saikilett? How you doing?
1:44.3	I am pretty darn good. I'm a little tired from travel, but I am pretty darn good.
1:49.1	Good. Yeah. That's good. By definition.
1:52.6	Yes. 8883-1-8-7-884 is the number triple-8-31 truth. Any question at all is welcome when Jimmy is here.
2:02.6	You can ask whatever you like. 8883187-884. What's happening to Jimmy Egg is mysterious world?
2:10.6	Well, today we released an episode on the five or actually now six so-called UFO observables.
2:20.6	These are characteristics that the Defense Department's program studying UFOs noticed
2:27.6	in the last more than a decade in about the last 15 years or so now, that are advanced
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