#12550 What Did Jesus Know as a Child? Original Sin and God’s Love - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What did Jesus know as a child?” This question opens a discussion about the human experience of Jesus, including insights into what he might have understood at a young age. The conversation also touches on the distinctions between preternatural and supernatural phenomena, as well as the nature of original sin and its implications for humanity.
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Questions Covered:
- 10:54 – What did the human Jesus know when he was 5 or 10 years old?
- 18:30 – Could you explain the differences between preternatural and supernatural?
- 28:46 – Can demons enter or possess rocks if you put them in a glass jar under the moon during some moon phases?
- 39:04 – If the serpent in the garden tempting Adam and Eve is figurative, then how did original sin enter humanity?
- 43:35 – Have you become more of a believer in the Fatima apparition or more skeptical?
- 50:38 – What is the view of God’s love for us? Is it unconditional love?
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| 0:33.6 | Ask me anything. |
| 0:34.5 | Jimmy Aiken, our guest, Jimmy, of course, senior apologist here at Catholic |
| 0:37.9 | Answers and the author of The Bible is a Catholic book, among many other things. Jimmy Aiken's |
| 0:43.0 | mysterious world, his Numero Uno podcast, his Numero Dos podcast, the Jimmy Aiken podcast. That |
| 0:51.5 | drops each Monday. What dropped on Monday this week, Jimmy? |
| 1:04.0 | This week we had a look at the Antichrist. We had, it was our 66th episode, and I had a listener who wrote in and asked about the Antichrist, so I said, I'll do that. |
| 1:08.3 | Excellent idea. Yeah. |
| 1:10.1 | Talked about the Antichrist coming up this Monday. |
| 1:12.3 | I had another listener right in and say, what are we supposed to do at the sign of peace? |
| 1:19.4 | You know, since COVID, not a lot of people want to shake hands. |
| 1:24.3 | So they wanted to know what to do. |
| 1:26.9 | And so I went through the law. I went through |
| 1:30.0 | all of it in, you know, all the passages in the general instruction of their own missile that talk |
| 1:35.7 | about the sign of the individual exchange of the sign of peace, some of which are rather surprising |
| 1:42.0 | in what they say. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | There are things about this individual exchange that a lot of people don't know. |
| 1:49.0 | And then I talked about different options for what you can do. |
| 1:53.0 | I mentioned, you know, what I do and talked about the religious significance of that. |
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