Hello and welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad. If you're new, it's lovely to have you. Pints with Aquinas is the show that tries to explain and defend the Catholic faith from a to mystic perspective. Do us a favor and click subscribe and that bell button and that will make me happy. I guess I should say something about this shirt. I'm a little embarrassed, actually. I went and clicked

record earlier, and I realized that I was wearing this Australian shirt, so I don't know what's

going on here. These are kangaroos, these, I think, are fighter jets of some description. So,

you know, I don't know if you like it or not, you can let me know, but either way, there you go.

Today, I want to look at the question, can a Christian lose his salvation? So kudos to those

of you who are in the chat, because I think this is something that many of us perhaps don't want to

talk about. Just last week, I recorded an episode on, will there be many who are saved. And that was a difficult thing to

talk about because the Gospels could be really difficult. And it was surprising to me how many

people in the comment section would say things like, well, that's just not the kind of God I could

believe in. Or I just can't, my God wouldn't do something like that, these very emotional responses.

And it reminded me that as Christians, we really have to be subordinate, subservient to the

word of God. You know, not what we think God would do, not what we would do if we were God.

If we are Christians, we have to hold fast to the

word of God, whether we like it or not. St. Augustine in the 4th century said if we only accept

those things that we like in the Gospels, then what we're believing isn't the word of God, but really

ourselves and our preferences. And obviously that's not something we want to do.

So, in today's episode, I'm going to have a look at what Thomas Aquinas has to say about

Christians, whether they can suffer the eternal punishments of hell.

I will then take five questions from our patrons, including a question on how to prepare for

Advent.

Advent is coming up soon in the West, in the East. It's already begun, but that's okay. It's a different question, different topic. And then finally, in today's episode, just for fun, I wanted to share with you seven hilarious 2020 memes. I did a live stream the other day with my wife and we looked up a couple of 2020 memes and

they just made me laugh. So I thought, I'll share that with you today, 2020 memes. So be sure to

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