WOF 183: Non-Catholic Q&A w/ Bishop Barron
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Non-Catholic listeners send in their questions for Bishop Barron. Questions include:
- As a Christian, do you ever think, "What if God doesn't exist"?
- How are Adam and Eve guilty of disobedience if they had no knowledge of good/evil until after they ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
- Why did the disciples betray Jesus despite seeing miracles?
- Why is God almost exclusively referred to as a masculine entity in the Catholic Church?
- How do I understand Mary's important in the Catholic Faith? Is it essential?
- How can we trust the Bible, when evidence shows the Old Testament isn't true?
- Did John Henry Newman have any disagreements with the Catholic Church before his conversion?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot, the content director at Word on Fire. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm joined once again by Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, good to talk with you. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey Brandon, good to see you. |
| 0:17.5 | Today we're doing one of our listener Q&A episodes. We do these sporadically and most of the time, |
| 0:22.6 | we just take questions from anybody. But today's a special one because we're only taking questions from |
| 0:28.1 | non-Catholics. This includes a lot of atheist listeners, agnostic listeners, Protestant listeners. |
| 0:33.6 | They've sent in a ton of great questions and we've got a lot of them lined up here. So |
| 0:38.3 | instead of wasting time, let's just dive right into them. So first up, we have a question from |
| 0:42.9 | Valerie and he's wondering as a Christian, have you ever had doubts about God's existence? |
| 0:48.3 | Here's his question. |
| 0:49.5 | He can ask the Christian. Do you ever think what if God doesn't exist? Then what? |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah, that's the question I suppose. How do I get at it? I think there are very persuasive |
| 1:06.7 | reasons to ground one's belief in God. So I've been an advocate for a long time of arguments |
| 1:13.1 | for God's existence. I think you can make a very persuasive rational case for God's existence. |
| 1:18.1 | Having said that, is there always something necessarily elusive about God? Yeah. |
| 1:25.2 | If God is not an item in the world, but the creator of the whole world, |
| 1:29.1 | if God is not a conditioned object, but the unconditioned reality that stands behind all |
| 1:34.5 | conditioned things, by definition, I can't have God. And so there's a kind of rationalistic |
| 1:42.0 | temptation to say just as like right now, I see Brandon on the screen. Right now, I know exactly |
| 1:48.9 | what I'm doing. Yeah, sure. I can control this dimension of the conditioned realm, |
| 1:55.9 | but I can never know God in that way. That's why in the Bible says, you know, that God of Israel |
| 2:00.8 | is a hidden God. It doesn't mean just provisionally hidden. Like I can hide behind a rock. It means |
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