#10265 Open Forum - Jimmy Akin

Questions Covered:

04:33 – In Acts 3:13-16, Peter says twice the Jewish people denied the holy and righteous one. Why does he say this about others when he did it himself? 
07:10 – Is there any effect the Eucharist has on an unborn child when his mother receives it? 
11:21 – Can you still receive the Holy Spirit if you smoke cigarettes? 
15:12 – When they took all the animals on Noah’s Ark, did that include the dinosaurs? 
17:35 – When Jesus forgave the paralytic’s sins, did Jesus forgive the sins that caused him to become paralyzed, or did he forgive unrelated sins? 
28:29 – How do you avoid discouragement when your good deeds aren’t accepted by the world? 
35:39 – Does the cloud of witnesses (Heb 12) include those in Purgatory? And are they aware of our life events? 
43:21 – What’s the difference between Jesus’s Ascension into heaven and Mary’s Assumption into heaven? 
45:58 – How did we transition from worshipping on Saturdays to Sundays when Genesis says God sanctified the seventh day? 
53:20 – What does the Bible mean when it says St. Paul was forgiven out of ignorance? 

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