#12684 Are There Doctrinal Differences on the Septuagint? AI, Visions - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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“Are there doctrinal differences on the Septuagint?” This question leads to a discussion on the major distinctions between Protestant and Catholic views, particularly regarding the seven additional books. The conversation also touches on the moral implications of generative AI, the Church’s response to potential ex-cathedra proclamations, and the interpretation of visions experienced during psychedelic ceremonies.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:40 – Are there any major doctrinal differences between Protestants and Catholics in regards to the Septuagint apart from the 7 books?
- 14:44 – What are the moral implications of using generative AI? Where is the line on when it’s sinful?
- 36:50 – My protestant friend asked me this: what would happen if the pope tried to proclaim ex-cathedra something contrary to Church teaching? Does the Church have a contingency plan?
- 47:24 – What do we make of people who have visions on psychedelics who use them as a spiritual ceremony?
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| 0:33.3 | Jimmy Aiken is our guests. |
| 0:35.1 | We've got lines open, actually. |
| 0:42.7 | Four lines open, as a matter of fact, which is rare when Jimmy is our guest. |
| 0:49.2 | Maybe partly because I wasn't giving out the number very much last hour, but I'll give it out now. 8883-187-884. |
| 0:55.9 | If you have a question, you're welcome to call, and you should not feel in any way excluded if you're not a believer or you're from a different faith, whatever. Everybody's welcome here if you've got a |
| 1:00.4 | question. 8883187-884. I will say this. We love talking about the Catholic faith. We love talking |
| 1:08.2 | about the Bible, morals, all that stuff. And I don't |
| 1:11.5 | know anybody who's more willing to just take whatever question comes. Jimmy, I can tell you this. |
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| 1:30.7 | this hour as well. Jimmy? And I want to just give people an update on where we are. We did make, |
| 1:37.8 | not by a huge amount, but we did make our $20,000 match for last hour. So yay, all the people who called in, their money will be at least |
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| 1:53.5 | our new audience that came in at the top of the hour. But we did make the match last hour, |
| 1:58.9 | but you know what that means, Cykelit? |
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