#12340 Was the Holy Spirit on Earth Before Jesus? Gospel Order and Apologetics - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Was the Holy Spirit on Earth before Jesus?” This episode explores the role of the Holy Spirit in the context of the Gospel order and apologetics. Additionally, we tackle intriguing questions such as whether Christians can be labeled as “psychopaths on a leash,” the nature of Christ’s cross, and the implications of critical scholarship on Church teaching.

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Questions Covered:

01:36 – Was the Holy Spirit on earth before Jesus?
05:20 – Are Christians “psychopaths on a leash”?
15:22 – Did Christ carry the whole cross or just the beam?
16:59 – What happened between Jesus’ death and Resurrection?
28:34 – Can critical scholarship undermine Church teaching?
34:45 – Is Luke 9:49–50 About Protestants Casting Out Demons?
41:47 – Why are the Gospels in this order?
47:24 – Dating/authorship of Job?
49:50 – What’s the deal with Malachi Martin?
52:40 – Do animals show rationality/personhood?

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0:32.7	Jimmy Aiken is our guests.
0:34.5	All the questions are in on this Friday afternoon already. I am Cy Kelly, your host,
0:39.7	so you can just relax and enjoy the questions. I won't be given out the phone number because
0:43.9	well, we don't have anybody to answer the phones, and even if we did, we recorded this in the past.
0:48.7	So Jimmy A. You need a super phone to get through to us. That would be a heck of a phone. You would
0:53.7	have to have a very advanced phone. I think there was a movie where some... Go ahead. Dr. Hu's done that. He's talked on the phone to the past? Oh, yeah. Well, he upgraded Rose Tyler's cell phone so she could talk to her mom in the past. I wonder who I would call if I could talk to someone in the past.
1:12.6	But it would have to be after the phone was invented.
1:15.2	Maybe Alexander Graham Bell, would that freak him out or what?
1:19.6	Probably.
1:22.4	All right, let's get back to the questions.
1:24.8	We've got a whole bunch of questions for Jimmy Aiken.
1:27.3	And if you have questions for Jimmy Aiken, you can get in touch with them. He's easy to get in touch the questions. We've got a whole bunch of questions for Jimmy Aiken, and if you have
1:28.2	questions for Jimmy Aiken, you can be getting in touch with them. He's easy to get in touch with
1:31.1	online and give him to Jimmy or send him to us here at radio at Catholic.com. Omega Rio wants to know,
1:40.0	was the Holy Spirit on earth at all before Jesus in any way, like how the angel of the Lord is, or could be Jesus?
1:49.0	Yeah, so I'll, since Omega has referenced the angel of the Lord, I'll explain that first for folks who may not be aware.
1:59.0	In the Old Testament, there is a figure known as the angel of the Lord who shows up in various passages.
2:05.6	And depending on how you read it, I mean, it could always be the same individual or it could just be different angels.
2:13.0	You know, referring to the angel of the Lord could just mean the angel who showed up this time,
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