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#12900 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

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Show Notes

Questions Covered:

04:14 – Like in the movie Surrogate. Imagine you’re at home controlling a flesh and blood robot. If you were to go to confession, would it be valid or would it be like confessing over the phone to a priest and if you were to attend Mass and receive Holy communion would the grace transfer to your spirit, would this flesh and blood robot be considered an extension of your body or need baptism to make it eligible for the sacraments if it was engineered from human DNA because of Adam and Eves original sin.

17:36 – I don’t remember if you answered this during your show, but in ep. 330 of Jimmy’s Mysterious World you went over Lyn Buchanan’s remote viewing experience for the military project Stargate. Lyn recounts that when remote viewing Jesus, He turned and looked at Lyn. My question is, what did Jesus look at? Was it Lyn’s “mind”?

23:27 – Can I wear a cowboy hat and cowboy boots if I don’t own a horse??

31:14 – How does time work in purgatory? Will we have to “revisit” all the moments where we’ve fallen short in order to right those wrongs? Or are we “frozen” in time until our final judgment? Or does time continue to flow linearly like it does on Earth? Or is there some other theory that I haven’t mentioned/thought of myself?

43:32 – If a vampire is a cop and I don’t invite him or her in, would he or she be able to serve a search warrant on my home?

51:46 – I’ve heard geologists say that all “dirt” is fossilized dinosaurs and or dinosaurs’ “matter”, meaning their waste and such. If this is true, when God made Adam, would the “dirt” have been this dino matter or was he made with pre-dino dirt?

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