Catholic Answers Live - Open Forum

Questions Covered:

• 04:19 - Why did God make the devil? 
• 06:03 - Canon 29 forbids on the Sabbath and Judaizing at the Council of Laodicea. What does that mean? Why? 
• 11:06 - How did Hildegard become doctor of the Church? 
• 13:05 - Is the Septuagint older than the Maccabees? 
• 16:50 - Why didn’t the Pharisees believe Jesus after he did all his miraculous signs and why did they hate him? 
• 20:14 - Is there a non-literal way to interpret the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac in Genesis 22? 
• 30:09 - I have a new Jehovah’s Witness friend. He says the soul dies with the body. How can I respond to this? 
• 35:00 - Why did we go from the word “cup” to “chalice” in the liturgy? 
• 37:43 - What does Jesus mean when he says, “Give to God what is God’s, and give to Caesar what is Caesar’s”? 
• 42:55 - We know that Mary is the only human to have ever lived without sin, but do we have any evidence of St. Joseph sinning? Could he have been sinless as well? 
• 46:00 - I have heard a lot of complaints that the Church is just oppressive and doesn’t allow individual freedom. How can I respond to that? 
• 50:54 - What is God really saying in Revelation 18:4-5? 

Resources Mentioned:

 

• A Daily Defense
• Hunting the Whore of Babylon by Jimmy Akin