#12700 How Can Couples Decide When They Disagree? Prayer and Unity - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can couples decide when they disagree?” This question addresses the complexities of decision-making in marriage, especially when spouses hold opposing views that could lead to sin. Additionally, the discussion touches on whether a Catholic can pray in a Bahai temple, how to counter Jehovah’s Witnesses’ views on the Church, and the connections between ancient Hebrew weddings and the Mass.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:45 – In a marriage, if the consciences of the husband and wife are formed to have an opposite opinion on something, such that if option A is chosen then the wife is sinning, and if option B is chosen the husband is sinning — how can they make a decision?
- 17:20 – I was invited by a friend to say a prayer in a Bahai temple. Is it okay for a Catholic to do that?
- 21:47 – I asked some Jehovah’s Witnesses how they justified their restorationist view of the Church. What scripture might they cite for their explanation, and how might I counter that?
- 29:18 – I have been studying ancient Hebrew weddings. And there are so many connections between that and the Mass. I’m wondering why we don’t see more catechesis based on this — is there some kind of danger in it?
- 42:25 – What language do you think Adam and Eve spoke?
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| 0:35.1 | filling in for Sy Kellett today. It's a pleasure to be here with you, |
| 0:38.2 | especially on this Friday with Jimmy. And Jimmy, you not only have mysterious world that |
| 0:44.1 | comes out every Friday, but you also have another podcast, the Jimmy Aiken podcast that comes out |
| 0:48.1 | every Monday. So what can we listen to now and what can we look forward to on this coming |
| 0:52.8 | on Monday? Well, the most recent episode of the Jimmy Aiken podcast, which you can get in a bunch of |
| 0:59.1 | different places, including on my YouTube channel, which is YouTube.com slash Jimmy Aiken. |
| 1:05.0 | The most recent episode that came out is about what's missing from the book of Acts. Axe covers about a 26-year |
| 1:15.6 | period of history, but even though it's called Acts of the Apostles in English, it only really |
| 1:21.9 | talks about two apostles, Peter and Paul. So it doesn't tell us about the others, and it doesn't even tell us all of what they did. |
| 1:32.2 | We know from St. Paul's letters about a bunch of stuff that happened to St. Paul that Luke doesn't even mention. |
| 1:40.1 | And so in this episode, I show you what the book does cover, but also what's missing. |
| 1:47.0 | And I talk about why Luke made the choices he did in terms of what he included. |
| 1:52.7 | And it's always interesting, you know, to get a peek into, oh, he did this too and this happened to him. |
| 1:58.5 | How many times? |
| 1:59.5 | I mean, just how many times can one guy get |
| 2:01.4 | shipwrecked? You know, Luke only mentions once, but it was more than that. So that's the most |
| 2:10.1 | recent episode of the Jimmy Aiken podcast. Coming up on Monday, I have a very interesting episode |
| 2:14.6 | coming out that's an interaction video with a gentleman named |
| 2:19.0 | Austin Suggs of the channel Gospel Simplicity. He recently put out a video in which he posed |
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