Alone Together for Christmas 2022

[@kenkuchnicki9012]

Had a wonderful 3 hour conversation with my daughter who is struggling with her gender identity. I felt almost adequate in answering her genuine questions thanks to listening to Catholic Answers Thank you for all your work Jimmy Akin

[@jtt8886]

I said a prayer for your daughter. This is super common now with young women. You'd think this were a trend like being a hippie. Unlike them the risk isn't acid, it's surgery or medicines. Worse, a big chunk of society and healthcare encourage this disorder!

[@bobandkelly]

🙏

[@matthewbroderick6287]

@@jtt8886 being born transgender is not sinful!

[@jtt8886]

@@matthewbroderick6287 That's like saying being born with alcoholic tendencies is not sinful. I guess true. The sin comes in how you act on it.

[@matthewbroderick6287]

@@jtt8886 most inaccurate, for just as there are those born with both male and female organs, are they sinning based in what they do with those organs when in a relationship?

[@soshay8442]

What a great idea! I did not attend the livestream. Came across this scrolling through my notifications and just wanted to agree with all the other comments and to thank you, Jimmy Akin. Merry Christmas!

[@jtt8886]

Watched this the day after, once family was gone. With all the disfunction in our world today, this bit of personal connection is most welcome. Thank you Jimmy!

[@JohnR.T.B.]

Merry Christmas Jimmy Akin! Thanks for all your works for the faith and the Church so far!

[@rickfilmmaker3934]

Merry Christmas to you Jimmy every day. Keep up the great work. We love you! The Lord walks with you. We need you. Amen.

[@randompetsandnuns]

I'm sorry I missed this, Jimmy. My only child is a Consecrated Religious Sister and I'm always alone for Christmas.

[@juliakiewit3749]

Thanks for doing this again this year, Jimmy! I watched the whole thing. I think it’s really cool that you’re doing this, and I know it meant alot to many people. Thank you, and I can’t wait for next year. Ps love the addition of pipe smoking this year.

[@dennischanay7781]

This actually made my Christmas. Thank you Jimmy!!

[@ordinary_deepfake]

Thanks Jimmy loved spending time with you today

[@ragelikecage4012]

Merry Christmas Jimmy! Rest of the family went to bed so this seems like best video to watch while I'm still awake on Christmas sweets XD

[@kencee0110]

A Holy and Blessed Christmas Mr. Jimmy Akin, Sir.

[@TobiasJoe85]

Love your stuff Jimmy. I appreciate all your work.

[@declanmcgrath9160]

Thanks Jimmy. That was fantastic - was thrilled you answered my question!

[@jantelgrace452]

Merry Christmas Jimmy and thank you for all you do. I love your teaching style and learn so much from you. May God Bless you in the upcoming year as many people are blessed by your teachings and devotion to the faith. I have a special place in my heart for your name as my father is James and my brother is Jimmy and I feel at home listening to your videos. Thanks again for all you do.

[@tonyl3762]

Just went back and watched Jose Chung episode based on your recommendation. Very good! Funny and plays with your mind in accord with Chung's view of truth.

[@Adam-i4h8d]

@Jimmy Akin. God bless you. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us!

[@pinknickelvidz]

Jimmie. I had a dog who knew I was coming home. I had a car dealership and came home in different cars, different times and Benji would be on my deck as I came up the hill to turn into my driveway. My neighbors watched this and commented about it for 13 years. He was the sweetest dog, a tri colr aussie shepard I got at the pound when he was 6 months old and bare boned starving. Merry Christmas.

[@jaymiggs]

May our Lord continue to bless you. Thank you for defending His Church. I wish to be anything like you one day 💪🏽 Remain safe and you are much loved 💚

[@deborahanne9793]

Merry Christmas Jimmy. Thank you very much for doing this Alone Together for Christmas. I also have no family in my area and will remember your video event for next year. I enjoy your answers on Catholic Answers, God bless you.

[@onthewaycyam]

Jimmy, you're the best. Listened to this whole video. Kept me interested the complete time. God bless you and the ministries you're involved in. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@lukasv4026]

Blessed Christmas, Jimmy. May Light of Christ shine always on your way!🌟👑

[@chadbailey3623]

I’m not alone and it’s not Christmas, but I am still listening to the whole video! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Jimmy, Dom, SQPN, and all of you!!!

[@stardustmkm7377]

Merry Christmas Jimmy Akin! 🎄 Thank you for all your valuable work! I learned so much simply by listening to you and you've always kept me in good company!

[@pennymartin4525]

Thank you. Merry Christmas. This made my Christmas. Thank you. God Bless

[@mikepotter1291]

What a great idea!

[@ferdinandbunyan8793]

Merry Christmas Jimmy! Merry Christmas to all of you on the programme!

[@pgk60]

Thanks for the preview of episodes. Can’t wait.

[@Hillbilly_Papist]

I’m disappointed I missed this. I’ll just wait another year to find out what tobacco blends Mr. Akin prefers.

[@lisacrooks6281]

Sorry I missed this as I am alone too. Looking forward to seeing you Christmas 2023!

[@scorpionking685]

Merry Christmas Jimmy. Love the outfit😍

[@mikoajczarnecki3388]

Merry Christmas. God bless.

[@MelaniesManicures]

This is a wonderful idea. Merry Christmas!!🎄 ✝️

[@debscalissi793]

Jimmy, this was a really nice podcast. I listened to afterward on the Mysterious World Podcast. Thank you!

[@debbiekirk2999]

Merry Christmas!!! 🎁🎄

[@SUPERHEAVYBOOSTER]

Love you Jimmy!

[@brendansheehan6180]

I love Christmas Jimmy.

[@nymgrace1227]

Thanks jimmy.

[@PraiseChrist4Ever]

Merry Christmas Jimmy Happy 2023

[@tonyl3762]

Wish I could have participated! But I'm a family man, so I was definitely not alone for Christmas. Please consider another Q&A stream on a non-holiday (know you have in the past).

[@XxNoFlaggitsAloudxX]

Merry Christmas!

[@atnyzous]

Merry Christmas Jimmy Akin

[@Wildwest89]

Love the hat and buckskins!

[@JimmyAkin]

BTW, the woman I whose name I couldn't remember that had a crazy understanding of pesherim and thought Jesus was the Teacher of Righteousness was Barbara Thiering.

[@blackwood3243]

Pretty cool attire.

[@TrialAndError8713]

The Shroud of Turin: a vast topic that deserves more than a half vast presentation. 🙃😉

[@Hoireabard]

Jimmy, you had said somewhere that you were going to do a show on the Shroud of Turin in 2022. There are just a couple of days left. Did I miss it? Thanks 🙏

[@JimmyAkin]

I'm afraid that the research demands proved too intensive. As I explain in the livestream, I've had to back-burner the project for now. 😥

[@Hoireabard]

@@JimmyAkin Understood. Your care in analysis is virtually unprecedented and demanding. That’s why you are the best. I’l just have to wait. Thank you.

[@Hoireabard]

@@JimmyAkin I listened & here is my view. Science is never 100% conclusive on any matter. We must apply the principle of parsimonious assumption in scientific study. Given new data the evidence is scientifically overwhelming & the burden of proof now rests with the deniers. Here’s why. It has been clear for a long time that the 1988 carbon dating was wrong because the sample did not come from the original cloth. The 2019 study by Christian Casabianca, published in Oxford’s journal Archeometry, nails down the statistical errors made in the 1988 C-14 dating. There is a new 2022 study also. But first, there were previous alternative peer reviewed studies. Fanti did a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy test, compressibility and breaking strength tests, and other spectroscopy studies which date the Shroud to the time of Christ (33 B.C, +/- 250 at a 95% conference interval). Although long, the video “Shroud Wars: Giulio Fanti, Robert Siefker, and Bob Rucker” discusses their theories. The new 2022 wide angle scattering data test dates the shroud to 55 to 74 A.D. Tests now exist to verify the particle radiation hypothesis. The presence of cosmogenic isotopes such as cl 36 and ca 41 can only come from nuclear radiation. New tests are available. I recently learned that about 40% of DNA on the shroud comes from India. This undermines the medieval origin conspiracy theory. It is complex. Given the conclusively established invalidity of the 1988 carbon dating, virtually all other data points to a miraculous 1st century origin. Few scientific studies are ever 100% conclusive - actually none; e.g., smoking causes cancer, climate change, etc. The overwhelming data pointing to the miracle of the resurrection is as close as it ever gets. Thanks for your great work. . Happy New Year. 🎆

[@row1landr]

Thank you for sharing yourself with us. Merry Christmas!!! About a little over a month ago, I asked for your business email to ask some questions, but I had to go to Louisiana to care for my parents and when I was able to have time to email you, I couldn't find the post with your email. May I please have your email again?

[@JimmyAkin]

You can email me at [e-mail]. God bless you and your parents!

[@pinknickelvidz]

Thank you Deliver Contacts for sponsoring the live chat stream.

[@dylanstuckey3824]

I was alone on Christmas I would’ve joined had I known you were doing this. Dang.

[@erravi]

Merry Christmas 😊

[@fritzimperial9210]

We need to get Jimmy and Wendigoon together on a podcast

[@Fetrovsky]

Re: cars being infused with souls... Christine?

[@dogwoodtales]

that was demonic possession

[@Fetrovsky]

@Dogwood Tales 《In the novel, Christine is revealed to be possessed by the car's deceased former owner, a violent man named Roland D. LeBay. Christine's new owner, Arnie Cunningham, begins to take on many of Roland's traits as part of the possession. This could theoretically be argued as true for the film too, if not explicitly mentioned, were it not for Christine claiming victims before she's even been purchased by LeBay.》

[@emagenie]

Can someone make a Jimmy akin plush toy ?

[@martinfranek7747]

So what are your standards for what you would call an well documented case of exorcism?

[@Fetrovsky]

Regarding well-documented cases of possession by demons, I'd recommend contacting Padre José Antonio Fortea.

[@kevinrhatigan5656]

I don't think he can speak English

[@Fetrovsky]

@@kevinrhatigan5656 He actually can.

[@kevinrhatigan5656]

@@Fetrovsky Really?

[@Fetrovsky]

@@kevinrhatigan5656 Why would it be so surprising?

[@kevinrhatigan5656]

@@Fetrovsky The vast majority of Spaniards his age can't speak English. Trust me, I know.

[@adestefideles9042]

No ether detected because the Earth doesn't move.

[@damiansagastume7023]

alien👽

[@_ready__]

Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV) 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. You have been saved through _____________? This is not your own ______________? It is the ____________ of God? Not a result of _________________?

[@kyles1750]

James 2:24 (ESV) "You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone." A person is justified by _____________? Not by _____________? See? I can do it, too. By the way, Catholics agree with everything said in Ephesians 2:8-9. (1) St. Paul is talking about entering a state of salvation/justification. This is clear from the present perfect continuous tense ("you have been saved"), which expresses a completed action in the past with ongoing effects in the present. And the initial justification of the sinner whereby the sinner is forgiven of his sins and brought into a state of grace is accomplished by grace through faith. Good works have nothing to do with this. As the Council of Trent explicitly says, "Nothing that precedes justification, whether faith or works, merits the grace itself of justification" (Decree on Justification, Ch. VIII). (2) Justification is not our own doing, it is God's. And faith itself is indeed a gift from God. Our good works as well are gifts from God. (3) Even if Paul is talking about good works in Ephesians 2:9 (which is doubtful), that is entirely in accord with Catholic teaching. For, again, Paul is talking about initial justification, and the Council of Trent is clear that good works have nothing to do with initial justification. It is only after we have been saved (again, note the present perfect) that we can cooperate with God's grace and bring forth good works (cf. Ephesians 2:10) the doing of which *further* justifies us. Just as Abraham was initially justified by grace through faith, so he was further justified when, by grace, he offered Isaac on the altar. Hence, St. James teaches us: "You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone." Abraham was initially justified by faith and later on also justified by works.

[@tafazzi-on-discord]

what a coward

[@_ready__]

@@kyles1750 read James 1:1 - who is he speaking to? Certainly not the Church, the body of Christ. Good works naturally follow true belief (Ephesians 2.8-10) but James wrote to believing Jews (James 1.1) under the Mosaic Law while Paul wrote to Christians not under the Law (Romans 6.14). James knew nothing of salvation by faith alone when he wrote his letter. This is evident from Acts 15. James understood faith + works for salvation, not faith + 0 as Paul taught.

[@kyles1750]

​@@_ready__ (1) Good works do follow from justification by faith. But those works *further* justify as James clearly teaches. He does not simply say that good works prove that one has been justified; rather, he simply says that good works justify. (2) When you have to accuse an inspired writer of Christian Scripture of "knowing nothing" of what is supposed to be the genuine Christian doctrine of salvation, you're position is in a lot of trouble. (3) James is most certainly NOT writing to Jews under the Mosaic Law. Read James 2:1. James is explicitly addressing those who "hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ." He is addressing Jews who have converted to Christianity. And James most certainly knew of Paul's teachings. James confirmed Peter's decision that it was not necessary to keep the Torah and be circumcised in order to be saved and had a letter sent out to the churches informing the faithful of this fact. Paul was vindicated by the Council of Jerusalem by Peter and James. (4) When Paul excludes "works" from the article of justification, he is speaking of "works of the law," which are the ceremonies of the Torah. Paul does not exclude moral works from justification. On the contrary, Paul says that God "will render to every man according to his works" (Rom. 2:6) and that "it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified" (Rom. 2:13). Now, by "doing the law" here, Paul must be talking about moral works rather than ceremonial works (e.g., circumcision) because in Rom. 3:28, he excludes such ceremonies (the "works of the law") from the article of justification. (5) That Paul clearly distinguishes between moral works and ceremonial works is further confirmed by what he says in 1 Corinthians 7:19: "For neither circumcision counts for anything [in the order of salvation] nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God." Now, circumcision was a commandment of the Torah. So, Paul is here clearly distinguishing between the moral law and the ceremonial law. The Christian is not bound to keep the ceremonies of the Torah (e.g., circumcision), but he is bound to keep God's commandments (the moral law). (6) James, in turn, when talking about the ability of works to justify is clearly talking about moral works, not ceremonial works. This is evident from the immediate context of James 2 in which he gives clothing the naked and feeding the hungry (corporal works of mercy) as examples of the kind of works he is talking about. In short, Paul and James are in complete agreement on the doctrine of justification. Initial justification is by faith through grace apart from good works. But justification then becomes an ongoing process that is furthered by the good works of the justified Christian empowered by God's grace.

[@EPH113]

@@kyles1750 thanks for the reply as I was hoping to see more on this topic …. James was writing prior to the council where Paul was explaining the gospel of Christ as revealed unto him as it was hidden prior to Paul. The 12 did not know the meaning of the cross. That is what Paul was delivering …. Of course, everything that James writes is perfect as is the Word but his understanding was not the same as Paul who had been given the gospel of Christ ( the gospel of Grace) …. whereas James was still writing from a perspective of the gospel of the kingdom …. Which required faith (in the name), water baptism, and following the Law. ( much like the RCC) The thing to see here is that James is NOT addressing the Church, the body of Christ but he is writing to a Jewish believing audience looking forward to the fulfillment of God’s promised covenants and kingdom! Probably the best way to understand one’s real beliefs is via this question: How do you get to Heaven? Answer that my friend and it will pull all your thoughts together in a personal way…. So, how do you plan to get to receive eternal life? Grace and peace

[@regi3756]

Merry Christmas!