#12250 Resurrection, Original Sin, and the Trinity: Tough Catholic Questions Answered - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What do the sermons in Acts reveal about the early Church’s belief in the Resurrection? Where was Tabitha before her resurrection in Acts 9:40? In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, we explore deep theological questions about Christ’s human nature during His death, how to explain Original Sin to students, and what good—if any—can come from eternal suffering in Hell. We also address how to explain the mystery of the Trinity to someone from a Latter-day Saints background.

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Questions Covered:

04:06 – Do the sermons in the Book of Acts offer early references to the Resurrection similar to the creedal formulations in Corinthians?
12:26 – In Acts 9:40, where was Tabitha before her resurrection? Could it have been Limbo, Purgatory, or another state?
17:12 – During the time Christ was dead, was His human nature still united to the Second Person of the Trinity? If so, how is that explained?
22:59 – What are effective ways to explain Original Sin to students who struggle to understand the concept?
37:12 – If God allows suffering to bring about some good, what possible good can come from the eternal suffering of souls in Hell?
45:55 – How can the doctrine of the Trinity be explained to someone from the Latter-day Saints tradition who wants to understand it?

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0:32.6	Welcome. My name is Christopher Chek. I am president at Catholic Answers. I'm sitting in this hour for the great Cy Kellett, who is off celebrating 30 years of marriage to his lovely wife, his lovely wife, the wife for his life, Missy, yes. And my guest this hour for Ask Me, Anything is Jimmy Aiken, the phone number
0:57.1	to talk to Jimmy is 888-3-1-8-7-884, 8888-3-1-8-8-8-4.
1:07.1	Jimmy, if I'm not mistaken, it's the Vernal Equinox today.
1:11.4	Something like that.
1:12.3	Yeah.
1:12.5	Are you going to celebrate with a, you know, I don't know, like a bonfire or?
1:18.9	I wasn't planning on it, no.
1:22.1	But it's hot enough here already.
1:26.2	I think bonfires are more appropriate if you're going to do them for the
1:31.0	winter solstice. Yeah. It's hard for me to keep my pagan holidays straight. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Well,
1:39.4	something connected to all that that folks might be interested in is episode 365 of jimmy
1:46.4	akin's mysterious world which i devoted to the mystery of the year meaning the year itself
1:51.2	and how how long people have been aware of the year and how they divide the year and where our
1:58.0	months come from and the different ways of measure in the year, how we got our calendars.
2:02.6	And there are some interesting things that some of them I know you would probably be aware of.
2:07.6	Like, I'm sure you've noticed that the names of the months kind of get off, you know, like September.
2:15.6	Septim, it means seven in Latin, but it's the ninth month.
2:21.3	October, Octo means eighth, but it's the 10th month.
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