#11714 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

Questions Covered: 01:02 – What do you think about the supposed references to Jesus in the Talmud? 08:10 – Please explain how does the process work when a priest earns the title of Monsignor I’d like to understand how that whole process works. 13:?42 – Can you make a distinction between God’s miracles and what demons are capable of? 18:39 – Who is the “destroyer” / angel of death in Exodus? An actual angel? 20:24 – Do you think the Jewish faith was reinterpreted after Jesus’s death and resurrection 25:10 – Why is the word Holy Ghost said instead of Holy Spirit? 28:25 – Why are there so many people who say that the Catholic Church is evil? The red shoes are evil. The room that looks like a serpent, at the Vatican. And other claims…? 32:43 – I was recently challenged on the papal bulls allowing conquest and enslavement, followed by the bull Sublimis Deus forbidding enslavement, which I take as an abrogation of the prior. The interlocutor asked 1) how can one infallible bull overrule another one; and 2) how was anyone supposed to know when Sublimus Deus doesn’t mention the prior bulls or say they were abrogated? What do you say? 35:24 – Can you explain how the Godhead and the Trinity are not conflicting ideas or doctrines. I get SO MANY people who challenge the Trinity and say that Catholics try to replace the Godhead with the “false doctrine” of the Trinity. 44:50 – Let’s say a person was properly baptized as a child but didn’t remember. They grow up and live a secular life until finding the faith later. They go through RCIA and, not remembering that they had been already baptized, are baptized and confirmed into the church.This person thinks that their recent baptism washes away the sins to that point and so does not go to confession for those sins. Is this person in trouble spiritually? Can they, since they are ignorant of the situation, receive the Eucharist? 48:08 – Jimmy Akin, what’s your most recent and thorough reflection on Numbers 12? 51:57 – Do we have one guardian angel for our whole life? 53:11 – What are your thoughts on the “manna machine”? …