#12470 Must We Forgive the Unrepentant? Eucharist and Confession - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Must we forgive the unrepentant?” This question delves into the complexities of forgiveness as taught in Luke 17:3-4. Additionally, the discussion touches on the Church’s teaching regarding the “Sons of God” in Genesis 6, clarifies why the Eucharist is not cannibalism, and examines the tolerance of Old Testament polygamy compared to New Testament teachings.

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Questions Covered:

04:45 – Church teaching on the “Sons of God” in Genesis 6
11:58 – Must we forgive someone who is not repentant? (Luke 17:3-4)
20:35 -How to explain that the Eucharist is not cannibalism
29:10 -Why Old Testament polygamy was tolerated but not in the New Testament
40:04 -Recommendation for a good book for a 14-year-old interested in Catholicism
44:35 -Parallels between confession and the sin offering in Leviticus

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0:32.6	My name is Edgar Lu Hano.
0:33.9	I'm filling in for Cykella today on this show all across time zones and on this
0:40.8	earth and in this dimension, I think, should be specific enough. So, cover all, I'm trying to cover
0:47.3	all my bases here, Jimmy. So good job. Thank you. Appreciate that. Today we haven't asked me anything.
0:53.6	So I'm going to give the phone number out one more time because there is one line open. So 8883187-884. That's triple-831-truth to ask your question to Jimmy. That's three tallied for today.
1:07.4	And before we get back to calls, Jimmy, it is Friday. So today, another episode of Mysterious World Drops.
1:12.9	So what came out today?
1:15.1	Today we were looking at, now this is November 21st.
1:21.8	And November 22nd is the anniversary of the JFK assassination back in 1963.
1:28.5	So we've been doing a two-part look at one theory of the JFK assassination, namely that
1:36.3	rogue agents within the CIA were involved.
1:40.5	And specifically, a gentleman named E. Howard Hunt.
1:45.2	He was accused of being involved.
1:48.1	He sued the people that accused him for libel.
1:53.3	And the case went to trial in the 1980s.
1:56.4	And last week we looked at what he had to say when he took the stand.
2:02.0	And his credibility was absolutely shredded on cross-examination.
2:07.7	He claimed to have not been in Dallas on the day of the assassination, but to be at home with his family, including his children.
2:20.0	And yet, he was the grounds he was claiming for why he needed to be compensated was the
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