#12508 Does God Love Some People More? The Devil and Salvation - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Does God love some people more?” This question opens a discussion on divine love and justice, addressing whether God favors certain individuals over others. The conversation also touches on why God created the devil, the validity of non-Catholic wedding ceremonies for baptized Catholics, and the implications of a bishop’s directive on kneeling during Holy Communion.

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Questions Covered:

02:00 – Does God really love some people more than others, does he hate certain people? —and if so, in what sense? Help me make sense of this
07:55 – Why did God make the devil?
15:10 – Can two baptized Catholics have a non-Catholic wedding ceremony, presided over by someone who is not a priest, inside a Catholic Church?
18:06 – I’m in the Charlotte diocese. The bishop just asked us not to kneel during Holy Communion. Why is the norm to stand and not to kneel?
30:20 – If someone is baptized and raised Catholic, but leaves the Church and become Protestant, but they still love Jesus, can they be saved?
42:12 – How do we know that the Mass is a continuation of what Jesus did at the Last Supper?
50:08 – I have a friend who gave me a Saint Benedict medal and told me it was extra powerful. Actually she gave me three of them and told me to put them around the house. This seems like superstition to me.

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0:30.9	I promised you Tim Staples, and Tim Staples is here, senior apologist here at Catholic
0:34.7	Ganswers, the author of, oh, I got to tell you about this. The author of
0:38.2	Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical defense of the Marian doctrines. But my copy in the
0:44.3	studio has a note on it from Carrie. No way. And the note says, now available on Audible.
0:50.7	Oh, my goodness. I heard they got a fantastic reader for it. So you can get Tim's book on Audible Now, Behold your mother, a biblical and historical
0:57.3	defense of the Marian doctrines.
0:59.2	And I'm so happy about that because I told you before, I have had numerous people for
1:06.0	years at conferences who say, how do I get it on Audible?
1:11.3	You know?
1:11.7	Yeah.
1:12.0	And sometimes, you know, it's folks who are blind.
1:16.0	Actually, that was only one time, but I remember a dude that was blind, and I've had lots of
1:22.3	people say they love having books audible.
1:26.3	Yeah.
1:26.6	So they can drive in their car and listen and they can, you know,
1:29.6	this or that. So here it is. And the reader is actually you. That's right. Is that correct?
1:34.6	You're the reader. Did you read it and be like, who wrote this junk halfway through?
1:39.4	That's right. I only caught about four or five heresies. I'm joking. I'm joking.
1:46.0	Second time through them. I'm glad you found them. You're welcome to call with whatever your question is about the Catholic faith.
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