#12469 Why Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Considered Non-Christian? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“Why are Jehovah’s Witnesses considered non-Christian?” This question leads to a discussion on the theological distinctions that set them apart from mainstream Christianity. Additionally, the conversation touches on the similarities and differences between angelic and ghost apparitions, the earliest evidence for the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception, and advice for new Catholics seeking community.

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Questions Covered:

01:40 – Similarities and differences between angelic and ghost apparitions
19:15 – Clarification on why Jehovah’s Witnesses are considered non-Christian
29:30 – Earliest evidence for the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception
43:30 – If Jesus appears fully in both species, why does Scripture say “body” for bread and “blood” for wine?
49:55 – Advice for a new Catholic struggling to connect with other young adult Catholics

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome to Catholic Answers Live. My name is Edgar Luano, producer for the show and filling in for Sykella today on this wonderful Friday afternoon, at least here in
0:38.8	California. It's good to be with you guys and to finish off the week and we have two great hours for you.
0:45.2	As per usual on Friday, we're here with Jimmy Aiken. So we're going to two great hours of an Ask Me
0:50.5	Anything on Catholicism. So if you have a question for Jimmy, you can go ahead and call us. You know what? I'm not even going to get the phone number because the lines are already full. So look at that, Jimmy. So we're going to have plenty of material to work with here. Yeah, that sounds good. And did you say you were filling in for Cy Kellett, at least here in California, as you do in the show elsewhere? No, that's fair enough, fair enough.
1:11.4	I mean, it's in a wonderful afternoon, at least the afternoon is here in California.
1:16.7	Okay, just messing with you.
1:18.7	Fair enough, fair enough.
1:20.4	All right, well, I guess we should just jump in because, you know, lines are full.
1:23.6	There's no need for the phone number.
1:25.6	I wanted to ask you about angel apparitions, and we see them in
1:30.4	scripture, obviously with Mary, the angel Gabriel appearing to Mary, Zechariah, and Joseph,
1:37.7	but also in the Old Testament, in the book of Tobit, we have the apparition of the Archangel Raphael.
1:43.8	So we see a lot of biblical apparitions of angels.
1:48.2	In modern days, in today's world, you don't see a lot of, and you don't hear of a lot of
1:52.6	angelic apparitions.
1:53.7	You hear a lot of ghost apparitions.
1:56.3	So I wanted to ask you kind of the similarities and differences with that, but before we get
2:00.4	to that, I wanted to ask you if we can define some of these terms.
2:03.5	What do we mean by angel? What do we mean by ghost or even what do we mean by apparitions?
2:08.5	Okay, so let's start with the last, which is the category that embraces all of them, apparitions.
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