#12380 Can You Avoid Purgatory After Last Rites? Nephilim and Mary - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can you avoid purgatory after last rites?” This episode explores the nuances of last rites and their implications for salvation, alongside intriguing questions about the meaning of the Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary and the Church’s teachings on the Nephilim. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics in Catholic faith.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:53 – My father received last rites and went to confession. The priest said that if he were to die, he wouldn’t have to go to purgatory. Is this true?
- 14:46 – What did it mean when the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary?
- 21:38 – What are legitimate reasons to not have kids?
- 40:28 – What’s the Church’s official teaching on the Nephilim?
- 48:47 – Do you have to believe in all doctrines of the Catholic Church in order to be appointed a priest or bishop?
- 53:13 – 1 Corinthians 4:6 says to “not go beyond what is written.” Is this evidence for sola scriptura?
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| 0:33.3 | I've been a pretty good work week today. |
| 0:35.6 | And glad you're here with us. |
| 0:37.5 | Jimmy Aiken is our guest. |
| 0:39.8 | And it's asked me anything. |
| 0:41.6 | And I'll tell you what the surprising thing is when I say this, when it's an |
| 0:44.6 | ask me anything with Jimmy Aiken and I say, there's one line open. |
| 0:47.6 | That is actually a rarity. |
| 0:49.0 | So you are welcome to get on that line. |
| 0:51.1 | 88831874. |
| 0:55.0 | I mentioned Jimmy's podcasts at the beginning of the program, and I asked him about |
| 1:00.0 | Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, and I didn't ask him about the Jimmy Aiken podcast, which |
| 1:06.0 | is the newer. |
| 1:07.0 | It's the baby of the two, but growing a pace. What's on the Jimmy, what's on the |
| 1:13.4 | Jimmy Agan podcast this week? Mondays it comes out. What was on Monday? Well, so this last Monday, |
| 1:19.0 | it was a look at the Herod family because there are multiple Herods in the Bible. There's Herod |
| 1:27.2 | the Great. There's Herod Philip. There's Herod Arch the Bible. There's Herod the Great, there's Herod Philip, |
| 1:29.0 | there's Herod Archelaus, there's Herod, there are a bunch of Herods. And they can be kind of |
| 1:34.0 | confusing because they tend to just be called Herod. And they don't have the modern ways of |
| 1:40.6 | distinguishing that we use. And so today's episode of the Jimmy, this last Monday's |
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