Weird Questions w/ Jimmy Akin | May 23, 2024 Hour 1

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Tune into Catholic Answers Live 3-5 PM Pacific Monday through Friday to ask your question! TOPIC: Weird Questions GUEST: Jimmy Akin More Catholic Apologetics: https://catholic.com QUESTIONS ASKED: 00:00 - Introduction 02:27 - If I got in a time machine and teleported back to post-schism Catholic Europe would it be a sin for me to receive the sacraments there? 06:13 - Can fallen angels become incarnate? When theophanies, christophanies, and angels were incarnate, did they have physical bodies? 14:42 - Was Genesis written after Jacob's lifetime? 19:50 - If “Kirby” were to become Catholic, what would happen when he takes the Eucharist? 22:21 - When a human author creates a world and a character to inhabit it, let's say Bilbo Baggins, does that creature have a soul? 24:12 - Is dramatic increase in abortion rates related to the increase in spiritual depravity in our culture? 32:11 - Do our guardian angels get transferred to other people when we die? 35:25 - What do you think an alien gray meat would taste like, and would it be a sin to eat one? 37:32 - If DNA haplogroups have proven all humans came from Africa, didn’t Jesus incarnate as an African man? It seems fitting. 42:54 - Suppose that we discover that creativity is literal, and when a fictional narrative is crafted, an alternate world is created. Would an author of stories with dark endings have a moral obligation to write sequels to all his or her works and right any wrongs or evils in their no-longer fictional world? 47:54 - It says in the Bible that humans were created a little lower than the angels. I've seen this interpreted to mean that all physically embodied beings are necessarily lower than angels in power and intelligence because angels are pure spirits. But ... Suppose that there were a physically embodied being that was exponentially more powerful and intelligent than humans currently are. For example, a sentient AI embodied as a Matrioshka swarm orbiting a gigantic star. Could such an embodied being become greater in knowledge and power than angels (or at least some of them)? Why or why not? 50:55 - Can you have your iRobot, or any robot or AI thing we come up with in the future to do work for us, work on Sunday? 53:45 - How much does the moon weigh?