July 26, 2004 Show

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Highlights:

  • Are mixed marriages considered good or bad in the Church?
  • How about individuals advocating separation of church and state sitting in on religious services to catch people pushing political agendas?
  • When did the chapter and verse divisions in the Bible come into use and who introduced them?  Longest chapter in the Bible?
  • Were James who spoke in Acts 15 and James the Apostle different people?
  • Are there any historical arguments of societies which have fallen into disarray because of homosexuality?
  • What happens during the Mass regarding Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross?
  • Are there moral types of stem cell research?
  • Who is the Apostle "whom Jesus loves" in the Gospel of John?
  • Were Adam and Eve real people?
  • What does it mean to consecrate your life and how is that done?
  • What would be the state of a marriage done by an ex-priest?
  • Is anything other than a white cloth allowed to be placed on the casket during a funeral?
  • Is it immoral to benefit from a previous immoral act, e.g. stem cell lines which have already been derived?

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

2 thoughts on “July 26, 2004 Show”

  1. Hmm… When President Bush allowed funding for stem-cell lines derived from human embryos that had already been killed, Catholics largely condemned this compromise as an attempt to “eat the fruit of the poisoned tree”, which would only create a tighter demand on embryonic stem-cells.
    In light of the real possibility that benefitting from these lines could increase demand for more funding, thus exerting greater pressure for federal funding of future lines, it seems that taken advantage of these lines may not be 100% morally legitimate.
    Has anything been stated definitively on this issue? Why settle for the fruit of the poisoned tree when we can work for fruit from a healthy one?

  2. Is the fact that I can’t seem to download either of the past two days’ linked shows due to the fact that all your loyal readers are overloading the server?
    Or is it just me?

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