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audio • Catholic Answers Live

Open Forum

Jimmy Akin • 5/6/2021

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Questions Covered:

11:00 - What would Jesus have thought the stars were? What did people at that time think that they were?
19:10 - What are we to do with Old Testament books like Samuel and Chronicles, which seem to be anachronisms? Should they trouble us?
31:53 - At the Last Supper, were the bread and wine transubstantiated?
35:40 - Why did the Church reject the gospel of James?
44:01 - Is the Roman Catholic understanding of reality based on God’s Word and revelation? For example, atheists might have a theory of knowledge based on empiricism, while Christians seem to believe in creation based on the Bible, God’s Word.

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