#12690 Aborted Babies Are Not Doomed to Hell – Scripture and Authority - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Are aborted babies doomed to hell?” This question leads to a discussion on the Church’s teachings regarding the fate of aborted infants. Additionally, the conversation touches on whether the magisterium can override scripture and how to engage with a Protestant partner about differing interpretations of faith.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:38 – Does the Church teach that aborted babies are doomed to hell?
- 19:02 – Can the magisterium override scripture?
- 30:55 – What are your thoughts on when conversing with a protestant who adheres to sola scriptura about pointing out how they should accept one’s interpretation of scripture since they don’t accept any other authority?
- 42:13 – I’m protestant dating a Catholic. I found out that her understanding of Catholicism is lacking. How do I talk to her and correct her without sounding condescending?
- 50:00 – If we were meant for the afterlife, how come we all fight death?
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| 0:34.0 | I am Sykelly Kellett, your host. |
| 0:35.3 | We had a great week here. |
| 0:37.1 | And now here we are. Second hour Friday, we'll just bring it all home with a great hour. I am sure we've got four calls on, two lines open. If you want to call, you can ask Jimmy whatever you want this hour. Ask him anything. 8883-118-7-884. And when I say, Jimmy, if you just joining us, it's Jimmy Aiken, senior |
| 0:54.8 | apologist here at Catholic Answers. Jimmy is our guest this hour. And we talked a little |
| 1:00.8 | bit about what he's got going on on Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World. And I'll tell you right now. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm just going to tell you right now. If you go to the mysterious world, you get today's |
| 1:06.9 | episode, Ghosts of the Ancient World. Of the early Christian, ancient, ancient Christian ghosts. |
| 1:15.6 | These are not ghosts from antiquity in general. |
| 1:18.6 | They're specifically Christian ghost encounters. |
| 1:20.6 | And also, I don't want to give too much away, but St. Augustine, a little bit of a ghost, |
| 1:25.6 | funny dutty. Okay? But go ahead and check out the episode and find out about it. Not totally, but St. Augustine, a little bit of a ghost funny-duddy. Okay? |
| 1:30.4 | But go ahead and check out the episode and find out about it. |
| 1:32.1 | Not totally, but substantially. |
| 1:32.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.7 | And I don't like to use harsh language like that, but sometimes it's called for Jimmy. |
| 1:39.7 | So what about the Jimmy Aiken podcast? |
| 1:41.6 | What did we get this week on the Jimmy Aiken podcast? |
| 1:48.1 | So here on Catholic Answers Live, we get a lot of questions about the first 11 chapters of Genesis and how they're to be taken. |
| 1:50.4 | What's their literary genre? |
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