Catholic Answers Live - Your Bible Questions

Questions Covered: 

 

• 03:47 - When one receives penance but doesn’t do that penance with sincerity, does it become the babbling that is mentioned in Scripture in reference to insincere prayer? 
• 08:27 - What does Luke 22:38 mean? 
• 15:10 - The introduction to the books of Esther says that her story is fictional. Is that true? If so, why is it in Scripture? 
• 21:00 – Can we respond to the objection that since Jesus spoke in Aramaic and the gospels were not written in Aramaic, that they’re not reliable? 

• 25:08 – Are the doxology and the Lord’s prayer recited together when they are not found together in the Bible? 
• 33:37 – Someone claimed to me that there is no evidence for hell in the Bible. How can I respond? 
• 38:18 - Who funded the writing of the gospels and what would it have cost? 
• 44:30 - Someone suggested that there could have been freemason influence that changed the bible. Does this have validity? 
• 49:09 - John 8:1-11 There was a footnote in my bible that said that ancient authorities did not contain this passage and that it was added in later. Is that true?