#12389 Can Souls in Purgatory Know Their Fate? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“Can souls in purgatory know their fate?” This episode explores the awareness of souls at their particular judgment and whether those in purgatory know they are not in hell. Additionally, we delve into the authenticity of the Greek New Testament, the implications of Catholic marriage law, and the evidence for Mary’s immaculate conception.

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Questions Covered:

05:19 – Is the Greek the New Testament is written in of poor style? Is the style it is written in a testament to its authenticity?
19:02 – At the point of my death, at my particular judgment, will my soul necessarily be aware of its ultimate fate as either Heaven or Hell bound? Do souls in purgatory know they are not in hell? What does the magisterium lend to address these questions?
31:18 – What “exactly” makes someone subject to Catholic marriage law? Catholics recognize baptisms in other ecclesial communities, and baptism makes you Catholic at least in some sense, but it doesn’t subject you to Catholic marriage law.
41:37 – What other “evidence” is out there that Catholics may be able to point to in order to defend Mary’s immaculate conception to non-Catholic Christians, since the dogma was declared by Pope Pius IX as opposed to being derived from Scripture or another source Protestants/Evangelicals revere.
48:46 – If certain demons are in fact the spirits of Nephilim/giants as most Second Temple Jews and some early Christians held, were they able to be saved? If they were indeed biological offspring from angels and humans, they would still be partly human (having original sin). All writings concerning them from that period treat them like Orcs, and never show them having the possibility of redemption. Thanks.

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0:33.9	Happy Friday to all of you here.
0:35.7	We have a great show with you today.
0:54.3	Two straight hours of YouTube Mailbag, Ask Me Anything Edition with our very own Jimmy Aiken answering our questions. My name is Thomas Graff. I'm filling in for Cy Kellett today because he is under the weather. As a matter of fact, as I record this, it is not Friday, but as you are hearing this, it is Friday.
1:14.9	It is the Friday of our Catholic Cancer's National Conference here in San Diego. So if you're with us, I hope you're having a great time at the conference, and why are you listening to a pre-recorded show? Go hang out with the actual Apologist that you're with right now. That's going to be a lot more fun, I think so. But if you're not at the conference, then kick back and relax and take in a great show that we have,
1:21.2	as I said, with our very own special guest, regular guest, special every time he's on our own senior apologist, author, debater, speaker, host of many, many podcasts. It's our very own Jimmy Aiken.
1:29.3	Jimmy, welcome back to Catholic Answers Live. Howdy, Thomas? How are you doing? I'm doing fine this
1:34.0	morning. I'm very happy to get through a lot of these questions that we have with you. Before we do that,
1:39.4	of course, I mentioned Jimmy Aiken is a host of many podcasts, including our very own Catholic Answers production,
1:45.5	the Jimmy Aiken podcast, and I believe, am I right, that since today is Friday?
1:50.0	I'm sorry, that's your other one, but what is the most recent episode of the Jimmy Aiken podcast that is going?
1:56.3	The most recent episode of the Jimmy Aiken podcast came out Monday because it comes out every Monday,
2:00.7	and it was actually our first anniversary show. recent episode of the Jimmy Aiken podcast came out Monday because it comes out every Monday,
2:08.0	and it was actually our first anniversary show in a manner of speaking. It was episode 52.
2:13.3	And there's 52 weeks in a year, so you could reckon this is our first anniversary show.
2:28.0	And for it, I looked at the life of Abraham. And I looked at the life after survey in the life of Abraham, I looked at a particular question, which is, when was Abraham right with God or justified, to put it another way?
2:36.3	And this has been a source of some controversy, particularly with folks in the Protestant community who often, though not always,
2:42.1	want to identify Abraham's justification with a particular moment in Genesis 15.
2:50.4	And I show that actually Abraham was right with God at multiple points in his life, including before Genesis 15.
2:53.2	And there are at least three different points in Abraham's life where we can say he was justified.
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