#12229 Do You Need to Confess Sins from a Time Loop? & More Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, we explore a fascinating Gospel mystery: When Jesus began His public ministry, did anyone recognize Him as the same child who once astonished the elders in the Temple? We dig into Scripture and tradition to consider whether that moment left a lasting impression—and why the Gospels remain silent on this point.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:45 – I hope this email finds you well. I’m a longtime admirer of your work in Catholic apologetics and your thoughtful approach to complex questions. I have a hypothetical theological question inspired by the movie Groundhog Day that I’d love to hear your perspective on. In the film, Phil Connors is trapped in a time loop, reliving February 2nd repeatedly, with only his memory carrying over each day. From a Catholic perspective, if someone in a real-life time loop committed sins during earlier iterations of the loop, but then they broke the cycle, waking up on February 3rd, would they need to confess the sins from the previous loops? Since the loop resets the world and only the person remembers their actions, do those sins carry moral or sacramental weight after the loop ends?
- 12:18 – Hi, I am a mega fan of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, I am fourteen and I have a weird question for you. First, in Lord of the Rings, how culpable are people for mortal sin when they wear the One Ring? I am asking because it is possible to ignore the temptation of the Ring.
- 20:20 – My second question is does the Holy Spirit guide other sects of the Catholic church such as Greek Orthodox or the Coptic? Keep the great work up, and it would make my day if you answer my questions on weird questions with Jimmy Akin.
- 22:28 – Is the website created by soon to be canonized Bl. Carlos Acutis a relic? For that matter, are the writings of Saints, whether in written or digital form, relics?
- 28:45 – Studies show that everyone likely has at least one doppelgänger. Could it be when we make life altering decisions, that a doppelgänger is actually split from us and onto a separate timeline? Like, for example, what if a doppelgänger of me actually stayed with that guy I dated and is now living the life I would have led had I not dumped him?
- 35:15 – Everyone seems to believe aliens, if they exist, must be strange and non-human like. But, isn’t it possible that life on another earth like planet could mirror ours? And, if so, what if the mysterious Man from Taured was actually an alien human from another earth like planet?
- 46:30 – Could Melchizedek have been a Zoroastrian?
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| 0:36.9 | Maybe it's a Friday night where you are or maybe even a Saturday morning, but as we like to say, |
| 0:42.4 | wherever you are, we're glad you're here with us. |
| 0:43.8 | Thanks for taking the time to be here with us. |
| 0:45.6 | Jimmy Aiken, both hours and something that lots and lots of people really enjoy. |
| 0:50.9 | We got weird questions for Jimmy Aiken. |
| 0:53.0 | A lot of people, some normal, |
| 0:55.6 | some perhaps weird themselves. I do not know. But the questions are weird, and people love to ask |
| 1:01.2 | Jimmy weird questions, and they get them to him all different ways. These were sent by email |
| 1:06.6 | and various other electronic means of communication. Sometimes people send them to us here at the studio, |
| 1:11.7 | and we send them on to Jimmy, and he collects them up, and we do weird questions. So we've got two |
| 1:15.4 | hours of fun. Jimmy answering weird questions for us today. I'll try not to give out the phone number |
| 1:21.7 | if I do, just ignore me, because it's a mistake if I do. Jimmy Aiken is senior apologist here at |
| 1:25.9 | Catholic Answers. That's important, but you should also know he's the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken is senior apologist here at Catholic Answers. That's important, |
| 1:28.3 | but you should also know he's the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world, which |
| 1:32.6 | that's where most people know of him dealing with. Well, not always weird, but a lot of weird |
| 1:40.4 | phenomena over there. Jimmy Aiken, welcome. Hello, Sikehaelot. How you doing? I am doing really good. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm really good today. Thank you, Jimmy. You're probably the best known Catholic apologists willing to |
| 1:53.4 | deal with weird things. I don't know any other Catholic apologists that have that reputation. |
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