Steve Ray & Jimmy Akin | Catholic Answers Live | 02.15.21

HOUR 1: Steve Ray - Open Forum for Non-Catholics HOUR 2: Jimmy Akin - Open Forum for Non-Catholics 17:54 - Was the historical Reformation a lost cause? 25:41 - If the physical body is a manifestation of your identity, how do intersex people or people with chromosome abnormalities identify? Are gender and sex synonymous in the Catholic faith? 33:42 - If Peter was married and the Eastern Catholics can marry, why do Roman priests have to be celibate? 39:20 - If the Marian doctrines are so necessary to Catholicism, why did none of the epistles cover them? 48:43 - How do you know if you’re in purgatory? And is purgatory the dark night of the soul? 53:12 - Why do Catholics think Protestants are wrong about the Eucharist when the early church seems to resemble Protestantism more? 01:08:32 - How does a Catholic deal with some of the hard passages of scripture like 1 Samuel 15:3, in which God seems to be advocating genocide? 01:20:00 - What do Catholics mean when they talk about a “broken world?” 01:26:24 - Are video games that include things like demon hunting okay to play? 01:28:10 - Does the Bible ever use false images to represent the truth? 01:32:45 - Based on Genesis, wouldn’t every animal in paradise be a vegan? 01:37:56 - What’s the Catholic stance on fasting? 01:46:53 - What’s the difference between the deity of Christ and the divinity of Christ? 01:48:25 - What is the Catholic view on predestination? 01:42:55 - What happens when a Catholic receives the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin? DONATE: https://give.catholic.com/castudios