I dont think Jimmy & James should debate because it kind of causes division under Jesus christ. If its a discussion then i think thats more understanding but some of Jimmys listeners (reading from the comment section) walk away from these informative talks in a very negative way . Slandering James white ect ect. [ 1 cor 2:2 ] i think shows us that Paul didnt find it constructive at all to get into these types of arguments. He focused on the fundamentals. Now if they are debating Athiests & people like Bart Erhman than i am all for that.
@MagnumLapua33832 минут бұрын
EPIC! May God bless and keep you!
@iBuzzingaСағат бұрын
I heard jimmy talking about OMAD a while ago and I thought he was crazy for it. Now, after some practice and starting with IF myself, I do a weekly 48hr fast and OMAD the rest of the week. I’ve lost 20 pounds in 8 weeks! Crazy! Thanks, Jimmy. God bless.
@theearlofelm9168Сағат бұрын
James White: "I teach Church History" yikes
@WayneDrake-uk1ggСағат бұрын
QUESTION: with all these NDE videos Akin has churned out lately, I was wondering if there might be a relationship between which of you are skeptics vs believers, and what "MBTI personality type" you are. I'm a skeptic and an INTJ
@chaplainhyena1523Сағат бұрын
Thank you
@TierTwoWorksСағат бұрын
Oh my gosh, Memory unlocked! My parents used to play The Unicorn song for me when I was a small child. I had completely forgotten about it until it started to play. Thank you for the very enjoyable set of podcasts about one of my favorite mythical-turned-real! animals, and for jogging back the warm childhood memories. ❤
@lindsayhickman96042 сағат бұрын
Would love more of these true crime episodes. They are tremendously interesting!
@jasperg3572 сағат бұрын
As always another great video
@petermarin2 сағат бұрын
I really really like you. Such a warm, thoughtful, considerate, knowledgeable soul
@jeannefernando49372 сағат бұрын
Frank’s criticism of missed opportunity at the Christmas Mass to proclaim to the congregation the reason for Jesus’s coming is legitimate. Whereas I have heard many priests proclaim strongly and well and even about grace!, I have also witnessed watered down and missed opportunity to really preach the Gospel when you know there are people present that do not attend regularly.
@EugeneHolley-rc6ry2 сағат бұрын
If Peter was in charge, why did Paul confront him in front of the church and tell him he was wrong and to be blamed, Jesus is the cornerstone or rock that the church is built upon. If Peter was the head of the church, why does scripture say Christ is the head of the church in Colossians 1:18, this is very misleading as well as false by Jimmy Akin.
@darz38292 сағат бұрын
I had a cardiac arrest and died. I saw only blackness, darkness. No sounds, no Grandma, No Jesus, no pet dog, no bright light. Just nothingness. until I awoke a week later. Some say I was in a coma- but I am told the EMTs who worked on me told my wife there's little hope - people usually don't come out of what I went through.
@the_abandoned_monastery72182 сағат бұрын
I’m sorry you experienced that. You did not receive a final death, and so while you were technically dead, your death was not final, and so you did not qualify to receive the beatific vision. Near death experiences are just brain wave hallucinations. They are all varied and do not conform to any one religion. They are probably like dreams. Because you didn’t have one does not prove or disprove anything. Hope you keep in better health in your days ahead!
@darz38292 сағат бұрын
@@the_abandoned_monastery7218 You have spewed a lot of assumptions. How exactly can you prove what you claim? Maybe just one?...
@the_abandoned_monastery72182 сағат бұрын
@@darz3829 i’m not sure what you need clarity on? The finality of death? The beatific vision? The Church has no official stance on NDEs. It is my faith that has lead me to what I wrote.
@darz3829Сағат бұрын
@@the_abandoned_monastery7218 " It is my faith that has lead me to what I wrote." Your comment is filled with statements that appear to be definitive. In case you don't remember --- you wrote "You did not receive a final death, and so while you were technically dead, your death was not final, and so you did not qualify to receive the beatific vision. Near death experiences are just brain wave hallucinations. They are all varied and do not conform to any one religion. They are probably like dreams. Because you didn’t have one does not prove or disprove anything" I simply asked you for proof that any of those are true. Or do you talk without thinking?
@the_abandoned_monastery7218Сағат бұрын
@@darz3829 I would first scale back on the condescension. Most of what I wrote was quite simple. Someone definitively dead does not revive. There is a dogmatic statement that you do not receive the beatific vision in a delayed fashion such as what Pope John XXII contested. Pope John XXII was later corrected at the end of his life. rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-pope-who-fell-into-heresy-church-that.html?m=1
@J-PLeigh84092 сағат бұрын
We can also conclude that Christ is God so if the very person of Christ is not revealed, we know that Christ is the Light of the world, the Light that enlightens all men, which of course coincides w/ God being Light & Love that contains no darkness. We also only get a brief occurrence & do not know what happens when a person stays, ie, judgement or Purgatorial Purifying. I can also say that I see more Muslim NDE's about Christ than any other & of course we see Christ appearing in NDE's from all walks of life including Hindu, Buddhist & Jewish.....but of course we do as the Lord upholds all things, in Him all things consist, He alone is the Holy One, He alone is the Lord, He alone is the Most High Jesus Christ w/ the Holy Spirit in the Glory of God the Father
@kathyrumble9393 сағат бұрын
Thank you jimmy for telling people that allah is just god! So many people dont understand that. You’re such a blessing jimmy
@user-wf1ff6xw8v3 сағат бұрын
Great video!
@atgred3 сағат бұрын
Although I’ve seen here in KZread NDE testimonies that have a lot of theological explanations and that this people have become really fruitful in Church, this would be the Catholic Church, I wouldn’t ever take any NDE experience as a form of theological formation at all. To know God we have the ordinary means He has put forth, Scripture, Magisterium and Tradition. The people I mention that there NDEs are very theological are from two Colombian persons. One is Marino Restrepo and the other Dr. Gloria Polo.
@jonathandutra48313 сағат бұрын
After listening to the debate about 3 times over i have come to conclude thay Bart got crushed. I think he underestimated Jimmy.
@TAwsum13 сағат бұрын
A distinction to Allah was made and Jimmy had a very good explanation. But now, I'm wondering if any Muslims see Mohammed in NDEs?
@artifexdei367113 минут бұрын
They claim they have dreams and see Gabriel angel. They also claim they fly on magic carpets over alla cities. And that's what keeps them being Muslim. So perhaps dreams, etc. can go both ways
@seanculver88764 сағат бұрын
I’m a career Artist. During my slow incline back to the faith of my childhood, as a practicing Catholic, informed my previous experiences as a spiritual wanderer, I came up with this analogy: Getting a tattoo is like bringing a Sharpie marker to the first flowers of Spring, hoping that if you draw something on the petals you’ll somehow make them more beautiful. As an Artist, I have to say; maybe, but not likely. Are you not already fully expressed as maximally beautiful in your body?
@TheMythicalElliptical4 сағат бұрын
David Wood and Apostate Prophet just did a debate the other night on Allah as God. They had 18minutes to prove the negative, it took them 4 minutes, and the debate was over. Maybe check that out. The case was that rock solid. 4 minutes, and it was over.
@alisterrebelo901336 минут бұрын
Jimmy isn't talking about 'Allah' from the Quran. You are missing the point, which is that Arab Christians and Arabic speaking Jews use the word Allah to describe Yahweh and have been doing so long before Islam. The word Allah has been co-opted and butchered by Muhammed.
@fireballgarcia12814 сағат бұрын
I know someone that had a near death experience as a teenager and their experience was just a black void. This really scared them and kinda casted major doubt on any afterlife existing at all or maybe their soul would be annihilated after death. They say they were a good practicing Catholic at the time. How would you address that concern
@wms72Сағат бұрын
There's something called,by the Eastern Church, aerial tollhouses. He may have seen the approach to one of them
@IsaiahINRI4 сағат бұрын
Don't forget that the Devil can take familiar forms. And if you aren't a Christian and die, who do you think you're gonna meet?
@BigTBariatric4 сағат бұрын
Agreed. There are deceiving spirits.
@wingchun196340 минут бұрын
That occured from one NDE I heard, a fallen away believer turned atheist , was in the hospital on vacation with his wife when he fell ill, or heart attack, I don't remember. He awoke in the hospital and claims doctors were calling him into the hallway so he got up and walked into the dark hallway with them and as they walked the corridor became darker and darker and the doctors became rude, abusive and finally attacked him . It was at that moment he tried to mouth a prayer from his childhood finally saying the name of Jesus that a small, distant light came to him and he recovered.
@ZonaiTime5 сағат бұрын
Thanks Jimmy!
@caolmountain82815 сағат бұрын
Jimmy you really gotta do some research on Islam if your gonna keep on this their God is our God nonsense.
@BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS_2525 сағат бұрын
The like button should change to a love button for videos like these.
@caolmountain82815 сағат бұрын
Allah is a generic word for God and has absolutely no connection to Yahweh. Allah is never to be refereed to as "Father" in any aspect as he us a slave master and very very different from the God of the Bible. Allah got 99 names but Father ain't one.
@choose-kindness5 сағат бұрын
I’ve been watching NDEs lately on KZread. As a new Catholic, it’s sometimes very uncomfortable because several have come back saying that it’s all love, there is no judgment except for the person judging themselves, they almost all include reincarnation with some saying that we choose our parents and challenges to experience in life, and many come back to become mediums and channelers. This all seems so counter to Christian and Biblical beliefs. I’ve noticed also that this group often uses vocabulary from a commonly cited book such as calling God “source” and the other common themes of people and beings being connected energies and existing at different frequencies. I don’t know what to think of these folks, but I’m holding steadfast to my Christian and Biblical beliefs. There are enough NDEs that mention Christ and sometimes speak of hell that I’ll always land on the guardrails the Church has given us to live successfully. If I get to heaven and it turns out to be all love and light, then I’ll still have lived my life in a wonderfully satisfying way by walking with Christ. I put my hope in Him.
@the_abandoned_monastery72182 сағат бұрын
You do not get the chance to receive the beatific vision until the finality of your death. Whatever a near-death experience is could very well be imagined from an extrapolation of your brain waves projecting something and not an actual spiritual ascent.
@WayneDrake-uk1gg2 сағат бұрын
Even though I'm extremely skeptical of NDE's, I would guess that if anyone had a legit encounter with the afterlife or divinity, the experience would turn everything they thought they knew on its head, and they would consider any form of "Confessional Religion" dead. So they'd probably go through a phase of involvement with those more mystical/spiritual-medium religions, like you mentioned, all in an effort to make some sense out of what they experienced
@grizzly_8917Сағат бұрын
Maybe you should explore orthodoxy, then.
@the_abandoned_monastery7218Сағат бұрын
@@WayneDrake-uk1gg what is a legit encounter? Could be deceptive demonic projection. New age religions are false, abominable, and should be avoided completely
@mattbernacki9282Сағат бұрын
Keep in mind, many people who have NDEs are interpreting them based on their personal and secular beliefs. Our faith is rationally true and we can understand it to be such through logic and reason. Our secular society often downsizes faith to "just be good", so it's no surprise people interpret these events in that light.
@velkyn15 сағат бұрын
unsurprisingly, Jimmy makes false claims about NDEs. One can see that by looking at actual research: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Western NDEs Masayuki Ohkado, Ph.D. Chubu University and University of Virginia Bruce Greyson, M.D. University of Virginia - "ABSTRACT: Decades of studies on near-death experiences (NDEs) have revealed both cross-cultural and culture-specific features (Kellehear, 2009) and that it is important to determine which aspects are attributed to the physiological, biological, or psychological mechanisms shared by all humans and which aspects are of cultural origin. In this article, we examine Japanese NDEs and compare their features with generalizations based on observations of Western NDEs. The main differences between Japanese and Western NDEs are the interpretation of the light and the concomitant lack of interaction with it, the image of heaven, and the absence of the life review. We suggest that these characteristics are accounted for in terms of cultural differences."
@bluckobluc87553 сағат бұрын
Unsurprisingly that doesn't affect anything besides your ego and not being able to resist to comment on every video about anything that has to do with theism. Funny man
@JimmyAkin3 сағат бұрын
I was able to find the piece online and read it, and it was very interesting! However, I did not see it falsifying any of the fundamental claims I have made.
@velkyn12 сағат бұрын
@@JimmyAkin I'm sure you didn't, Jimmy, since you need to pretend that every NDE is about your cult's god. "Pointing out that some of the prominent features in Western NDEs, such as the life review, have so far been absent in non- Western NDEs, Kellehear (2009, p. 135) emphasized the importance of exploring cultural factors more thoroughly before turning to biological factors. In this article we focused on Japanese NDEs, which were not included in Kellehear’s (2009) cross-cultural studies, and we compared them to generalizations based on observations of Western NDEs. The main differences were the interpretation of the light and the concomitant lack of interaction with it, the image of heaven, and the lack of the life review. We suggest that these characteristics may be accounted for in terms of cultural backgrounds." the conclusion of the research. your claim here is false "verwhelming majority of reports of1:17religious figures were either God or an 1:20angel of God or Jesus and things1:24reporting non-Christian gods were um1:29were a distinct minority they were1:31outliers even in countries where um1:35belief even in countries where1:36Christianity is not the norm " and this one "Arabic word for God that's all it means1:46Allah is not a different God Allah is1:48God that is how arabic speaking1:51Christians talk about God um" curious how Allah isn't the christain god at all for all of the muslims. angels aren't just any messengers, and curious how I could simply say christians are really seeing other religion's messengers. How do you propose to show these are only from your religion? so we have a phenomena called NDE, and it has nothing to do with your religion.
@tonyl37622 сағат бұрын
No one is disputing cultural differences in NDE experiences. You seem to be arguing against a straw man.
@kellyburgess6715 сағат бұрын
TY
@johnbrion45655 сағат бұрын
Thanks for all you do.
@Devotionalpoet6 сағат бұрын
Great video! Thanks for that book recommendation, this topic is very interesting 👍
@polodown47296 сағат бұрын
👍
@gijoe5086 сағат бұрын
My grandfather who was Protestant, when he was dying saw a woman holding a child that he thought was the Virgin Mary. He also said he saw a waterfall and a mountain with beings and a road that had to be crossed.
@arianemontemuro79017 сағат бұрын
Orthodox Christianity is the true Faith. Pope changed faith. Patriarchs not popes
@RebeccaLynne20467 сағат бұрын
I was once told by a friend that Allah was originally the moon god. Is there any truth in that?
@FrJohnBrownSJ6 сағат бұрын
The word Allah was used for God and god, just like in English before Islam even existed. Islam claims to worship the same God as Abraham and they even venerate Our Blessed Mother. They say things absolutely incompatible with Christian doctrine about God, but the idea that "Allah" was the name of a pagan god only isn't accurate. Of course, a moon god could have been called "Allah" just as the Christians refer to God as "Allah" but Muslims are monotheistic.
@justingeorge5036 сағат бұрын
The pre Islamic pagans had a moon diety called Allah
@angelbrother12386 сағат бұрын
@@FrJohnBrownSJ coming from a Lebanese Christian family the word allah simply means GOD translated into English
@FrJohnBrownSJ5 сағат бұрын
@@justingeorge503 all of their deities were called allah
@RebeccaLynne20463 сағат бұрын
@FrJohnBrownSJ Thank you, Fr. John. This conversation took place during the 9/11 backlash, so most people weren't overly concerned with the truth. It makes sense how it could be confused.
@loretomorales46297 сағат бұрын
It's obvious that Steven is trying to mess up the truth with his misinterpretation of the scripture by asserting his deceptive and twisted argument! Good that Jimmy is knowledgeable enough to rebut his personal interpretation of the scripture.
@AVMamfortas7 сағат бұрын
Allah is NOT 'God' Allah is Ba'al. Some Muslims SAY that allah means god, but muslim orthodoxy tells them to lie in order to deceive infidels.
@FrJohnBrownSJ6 сағат бұрын
That's just not accurate. Catholics in many Arab speaking countries use the word Allah for God and did so long before Islam existed.
@caolmountain82814 сағат бұрын
It's actually a contradicting conjunction of El and Elohim. Most who escape the horrors of Islam know this and don't use the word Allah because it has absolutely nothing to do with Yahweh, watch any video of an Arabic speaking ex Muslim and they hammer this point so Christians stop repeating the lie. They even claim prophets in his name, prophets like Elijah who's name literally means Yahweh is my God. Go watch some speakers corner videos and enhance your knowledge of this subject.
@revelation12153 сағат бұрын
I sometimes think Jimmy Akin is working against God.
@WayneDrake-uk1gg3 сағат бұрын
Ugh! My Godfather is anti-Muslim, and always babbling on about how they practice "taki" or whatever he calls it about "deceiving the infidel". It's fun to BS with him and get him riled up while we're on a job somewhere (helps the day pass). But, c'mon. These people believe in one God, and they exist as a prayerful community (and hence, have a sort of baptism), and generally strive to follow the Commandments
@FrJohnBrownSJ2 сағат бұрын
@@caolmountain8281 I spent time in Iraq ministering to persecuted Christians and Muslims.
@WayneDrake-uk1gg7 сағат бұрын
Damn! This NDE episode was actually good. This touches on the question, What is religion? I think there tends to be this exaggerated sense in American culture--tied deeply with American politics--that all of religion is about choosing (ie voting) the right creeds, the right confessions, the right gods, etc. There's this idea of an "in group", and everyone who disagrees with me about the particular "names" (the parties and the candidates) is just hopelessly wrong, evil, idolatrous, etc. And so we lose sight of the much bigger picture that religion, in general, is an attempt to reconcile the finite and transient here-and-now with the eternal and transcendent hereafter. This is a process that's necessarily going to be full of different symbols and different rituals across different cultures. This is why Catholicism, at its heart, is great. It doesn't deny these different approaches. Rather, it assimilates them, and provides a common vocabulary to Unite cultures, rather than divide them. Man's efforts to reach Heaven may well have resulted in the confusion of the Tower of Babble, but God is not the Author of the confusion, and so the Church seeks to undo this "communication problem" and bring everyone back together, not keep everyone in their isolated little "political parties" (echo chambers) where they endlessly dispute over words with "outsiders"
@johncampos17806 сағат бұрын
What you've mentioned is heretical. I highly doubt you're a Catholic, this is not Catholic teachings.
@grizzly_8917Сағат бұрын
Is that why the pope kisses the quran?
@WayneDrake-uk1ggСағат бұрын
@@grizzly_8917 I vaguely remember when that happened, but I don't know what the Holy Father's rationale was. I don't know much about Islam, but I believe one of their claims is that the Quran is a verifiable miracle because the literary quality can somehow be shown to far exceed anything a human is capable of producing. Catholics believe Beauty is indeed a transcendental emanatiom (sp?) of Almighty God, so I could see that as a possible basis for the kiss
@wms72Сағат бұрын
Catholicism does NOT assimilate pagan beliefs
@grizzly_8917Сағат бұрын
@@WayneDrake-uk1gg and kneeling/praying with them?
@iviivicko16948 сағат бұрын
Cristian s God is not the muslim alah
@johncampos17806 сағат бұрын
Amen.
@FrJohnBrownSJ6 сағат бұрын
There is a different way of looking at it. If I tell you I know Will Smith and you say you know Will Smith, and I say Will Smith starred in the movies Men in Black and Star Wars, and you say Will Smith was not in Star Wars but was actually in the movie I Am Legend as well as Men in Black, does that mean I cannot be talking about the same Will Smith? I can be wrong about what movie Will Smith was in, but still I can call the same Will Smith on the phone as you can. In that sense, the Catholics in Arab speaking countries call God Allah the same way Muslims do, and they intend to refer to the same God, although Muslims believe falsehoods about God.
@laurenbashoura95756 сағат бұрын
You’re right, theologically, the Christian and Muslim Gods are different, but what Jimmy means here is that any Arabic-speaking person who sees God is going to refer to Him as “Allah,” whether they are Muslim or not. My family is Catholic, and when we speak Arabic in church, in our prayers, or just in our conversations, we use the word “Allah” for God. “Allah” is not a name for God, like Jesus or Krishna for example, but rather a word that means God, like the Spanish “Dios” or the French “Dieu.” Hope that helps!
@WayneDrake-uk1gg5 сағат бұрын
@@FrJohnBrownSJwould you say Muslims believe falsehoods about God, full stop, or, to carry your analogy a bit further, would you say that the particular "movie" they know Will Smith from leads many of them to have misguided impressions of who Will Smith , the man himself, actually is?
@caolmountain82814 сағат бұрын
Allah is a contradicting conjunction of El AND Elohim, this is the Arabic etymology and why most who escape Islam refuse to use that word to describe Yahweh as it is in complete contradiction to the Christian faith. Names of Allah -Greatest of Decievers -Father to None -Master of Slaves What's next "Isa is just another name for Jesus" ? It's not. It's a derogatory term that was used by the Sanhedrion to describe Jesus for centuries prior. -hope that helps!
@bubbles5818 сағат бұрын
Yes. Sometimes even Christians see non Christian gods in NDEs and sometimes Hindus or others see Jesus. Experiences are very diverse.
@davidramsey25667 сағат бұрын
I’ve been studying NDEs for years and I don’t know of but one where someone saw another dirty than God, Jesus, or an angel/being of light. Even in that one they said they thought they saw the Hindu goddess Sarasvati but it wasn’t very definitive. If you know of others I’d be very interested to know your sources. Gregory Shushan says there are others but he’s basing this on things like the Tibetan Book of the Dead as sources that are not properly speaking NDE experiences.
@angelbrother12386 сағат бұрын
@@davidramsey2566I would suggest going to nderf dr Jeffrey longs website . Even though I’m catholic I’d have to disagree with Jimmy akin on this one as Jeffrey longs research has shown a wide variety of experiences of seeing divine figures from different religions . I will check out the book he recommended . Jimmy should have someone who has studied thousands of ndes like NDE researcher dr Jeffrey long to see if that’s what he’s getting from his database of global ndes because from what I’ve seen from his research it shows a wide variety of experiences . I would love to be wrong about but this is so far why I used ndes to give evidence of the afterlife but not to argue for one religion over the other
@johncampos17806 сағат бұрын
@@davidramsey2566I wouldn't hold my breath while waiting.
@brianw.52306 сағат бұрын
John Burke has written a book about NDE's and many NDE people in India saw Jesus.
@angelbrother12386 сағат бұрын
@@brianw.5230 again I have to do my research because dr long who has the largest NDE database I know is showing a wide variety of NDE experiences . Like I said we should have an expert from both sides of this subject . Maybe Cameron should invite dr long and Burke together .
@ChungGuss8 сағат бұрын
Thanks Jimmy!
@jopociolo1938 сағат бұрын
Thanks for this, Jimmy! 🙏
@MattPotter158 сағат бұрын
There is an identical picture of Christ, re-check
@SeekLuminousThings8 сағат бұрын
Enjoy your content, Mr Akin.
@liberatewethepeople91218 сағат бұрын
Love this channel!
@williamcabell1428 сағат бұрын
Can a lay person kiss the altar! I believe not…but then again who knows anymore. 🙏✝️❤️
@boom24356829 сағат бұрын
Weird stories indeed. .
@jonathandutra483113 сағат бұрын
Barts "oral tradition" chineese whisper telephone game is unlike the oral tradition about jesus. The eye-witnesses are still alive to fact check the stories being told. With chinnese whispers you cant intervene in the middle of the game you have to wait till the end in order to notice the difference. Marks written prior to 70ad he puts all the gospels really late. Mark dont need to be in Israel either because he is the interpreter of peter who was an eye-witness. There are a ton of great arguments from scholars who have the book of mark way earlier.
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Thanks Jimmy
I dont think Jimmy & James should debate because it kind of causes division under Jesus christ. If its a discussion then i think thats more understanding but some of Jimmys listeners (reading from the comment section) walk away from these informative talks in a very negative way . Slandering James white ect ect. [ 1 cor 2:2 ] i think shows us that Paul didnt find it constructive at all to get into these types of arguments. He focused on the fundamentals. Now if they are debating Athiests & people like Bart Erhman than i am all for that.
EPIC! May God bless and keep you!
I heard jimmy talking about OMAD a while ago and I thought he was crazy for it. Now, after some practice and starting with IF myself, I do a weekly 48hr fast and OMAD the rest of the week. I’ve lost 20 pounds in 8 weeks! Crazy! Thanks, Jimmy. God bless.
James White: "I teach Church History" yikes
QUESTION: with all these NDE videos Akin has churned out lately, I was wondering if there might be a relationship between which of you are skeptics vs believers, and what "MBTI personality type" you are. I'm a skeptic and an INTJ
Thank you
Oh my gosh, Memory unlocked! My parents used to play The Unicorn song for me when I was a small child. I had completely forgotten about it until it started to play. Thank you for the very enjoyable set of podcasts about one of my favorite mythical-turned-real! animals, and for jogging back the warm childhood memories. ❤
Would love more of these true crime episodes. They are tremendously interesting!
As always another great video
I really really like you. Such a warm, thoughtful, considerate, knowledgeable soul
Frank’s criticism of missed opportunity at the Christmas Mass to proclaim to the congregation the reason for Jesus’s coming is legitimate. Whereas I have heard many priests proclaim strongly and well and even about grace!, I have also witnessed watered down and missed opportunity to really preach the Gospel when you know there are people present that do not attend regularly.
If Peter was in charge, why did Paul confront him in front of the church and tell him he was wrong and to be blamed, Jesus is the cornerstone or rock that the church is built upon. If Peter was the head of the church, why does scripture say Christ is the head of the church in Colossians 1:18, this is very misleading as well as false by Jimmy Akin.
I had a cardiac arrest and died. I saw only blackness, darkness. No sounds, no Grandma, No Jesus, no pet dog, no bright light. Just nothingness. until I awoke a week later. Some say I was in a coma- but I am told the EMTs who worked on me told my wife there's little hope - people usually don't come out of what I went through.
I’m sorry you experienced that. You did not receive a final death, and so while you were technically dead, your death was not final, and so you did not qualify to receive the beatific vision. Near death experiences are just brain wave hallucinations. They are all varied and do not conform to any one religion. They are probably like dreams. Because you didn’t have one does not prove or disprove anything. Hope you keep in better health in your days ahead!
@@the_abandoned_monastery7218 You have spewed a lot of assumptions. How exactly can you prove what you claim? Maybe just one?...
@@darz3829 i’m not sure what you need clarity on? The finality of death? The beatific vision? The Church has no official stance on NDEs. It is my faith that has lead me to what I wrote.
@@the_abandoned_monastery7218 " It is my faith that has lead me to what I wrote." Your comment is filled with statements that appear to be definitive. In case you don't remember --- you wrote "You did not receive a final death, and so while you were technically dead, your death was not final, and so you did not qualify to receive the beatific vision. Near death experiences are just brain wave hallucinations. They are all varied and do not conform to any one religion. They are probably like dreams. Because you didn’t have one does not prove or disprove anything" I simply asked you for proof that any of those are true. Or do you talk without thinking?
@@darz3829 I would first scale back on the condescension. Most of what I wrote was quite simple. Someone definitively dead does not revive. There is a dogmatic statement that you do not receive the beatific vision in a delayed fashion such as what Pope John XXII contested. Pope John XXII was later corrected at the end of his life. rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-pope-who-fell-into-heresy-church-that.html?m=1
We can also conclude that Christ is God so if the very person of Christ is not revealed, we know that Christ is the Light of the world, the Light that enlightens all men, which of course coincides w/ God being Light & Love that contains no darkness. We also only get a brief occurrence & do not know what happens when a person stays, ie, judgement or Purgatorial Purifying. I can also say that I see more Muslim NDE's about Christ than any other & of course we see Christ appearing in NDE's from all walks of life including Hindu, Buddhist & Jewish.....but of course we do as the Lord upholds all things, in Him all things consist, He alone is the Holy One, He alone is the Lord, He alone is the Most High Jesus Christ w/ the Holy Spirit in the Glory of God the Father
Thank you jimmy for telling people that allah is just god! So many people dont understand that. You’re such a blessing jimmy
Great video!
Although I’ve seen here in KZread NDE testimonies that have a lot of theological explanations and that this people have become really fruitful in Church, this would be the Catholic Church, I wouldn’t ever take any NDE experience as a form of theological formation at all. To know God we have the ordinary means He has put forth, Scripture, Magisterium and Tradition. The people I mention that there NDEs are very theological are from two Colombian persons. One is Marino Restrepo and the other Dr. Gloria Polo.
After listening to the debate about 3 times over i have come to conclude thay Bart got crushed. I think he underestimated Jimmy.
A distinction to Allah was made and Jimmy had a very good explanation. But now, I'm wondering if any Muslims see Mohammed in NDEs?
They claim they have dreams and see Gabriel angel. They also claim they fly on magic carpets over alla cities. And that's what keeps them being Muslim. So perhaps dreams, etc. can go both ways
I’m a career Artist. During my slow incline back to the faith of my childhood, as a practicing Catholic, informed my previous experiences as a spiritual wanderer, I came up with this analogy: Getting a tattoo is like bringing a Sharpie marker to the first flowers of Spring, hoping that if you draw something on the petals you’ll somehow make them more beautiful. As an Artist, I have to say; maybe, but not likely. Are you not already fully expressed as maximally beautiful in your body?
David Wood and Apostate Prophet just did a debate the other night on Allah as God. They had 18minutes to prove the negative, it took them 4 minutes, and the debate was over. Maybe check that out. The case was that rock solid. 4 minutes, and it was over.
Jimmy isn't talking about 'Allah' from the Quran. You are missing the point, which is that Arab Christians and Arabic speaking Jews use the word Allah to describe Yahweh and have been doing so long before Islam. The word Allah has been co-opted and butchered by Muhammed.
I know someone that had a near death experience as a teenager and their experience was just a black void. This really scared them and kinda casted major doubt on any afterlife existing at all or maybe their soul would be annihilated after death. They say they were a good practicing Catholic at the time. How would you address that concern
There's something called,by the Eastern Church, aerial tollhouses. He may have seen the approach to one of them
Don't forget that the Devil can take familiar forms. And if you aren't a Christian and die, who do you think you're gonna meet?
Agreed. There are deceiving spirits.
That occured from one NDE I heard, a fallen away believer turned atheist , was in the hospital on vacation with his wife when he fell ill, or heart attack, I don't remember. He awoke in the hospital and claims doctors were calling him into the hallway so he got up and walked into the dark hallway with them and as they walked the corridor became darker and darker and the doctors became rude, abusive and finally attacked him . It was at that moment he tried to mouth a prayer from his childhood finally saying the name of Jesus that a small, distant light came to him and he recovered.
Thanks Jimmy!
Jimmy you really gotta do some research on Islam if your gonna keep on this their God is our God nonsense.
The like button should change to a love button for videos like these.
Allah is a generic word for God and has absolutely no connection to Yahweh. Allah is never to be refereed to as "Father" in any aspect as he us a slave master and very very different from the God of the Bible. Allah got 99 names but Father ain't one.
I’ve been watching NDEs lately on KZread. As a new Catholic, it’s sometimes very uncomfortable because several have come back saying that it’s all love, there is no judgment except for the person judging themselves, they almost all include reincarnation with some saying that we choose our parents and challenges to experience in life, and many come back to become mediums and channelers. This all seems so counter to Christian and Biblical beliefs. I’ve noticed also that this group often uses vocabulary from a commonly cited book such as calling God “source” and the other common themes of people and beings being connected energies and existing at different frequencies. I don’t know what to think of these folks, but I’m holding steadfast to my Christian and Biblical beliefs. There are enough NDEs that mention Christ and sometimes speak of hell that I’ll always land on the guardrails the Church has given us to live successfully. If I get to heaven and it turns out to be all love and light, then I’ll still have lived my life in a wonderfully satisfying way by walking with Christ. I put my hope in Him.
You do not get the chance to receive the beatific vision until the finality of your death. Whatever a near-death experience is could very well be imagined from an extrapolation of your brain waves projecting something and not an actual spiritual ascent.
Even though I'm extremely skeptical of NDE's, I would guess that if anyone had a legit encounter with the afterlife or divinity, the experience would turn everything they thought they knew on its head, and they would consider any form of "Confessional Religion" dead. So they'd probably go through a phase of involvement with those more mystical/spiritual-medium religions, like you mentioned, all in an effort to make some sense out of what they experienced
Maybe you should explore orthodoxy, then.
@@WayneDrake-uk1gg what is a legit encounter? Could be deceptive demonic projection. New age religions are false, abominable, and should be avoided completely
Keep in mind, many people who have NDEs are interpreting them based on their personal and secular beliefs. Our faith is rationally true and we can understand it to be such through logic and reason. Our secular society often downsizes faith to "just be good", so it's no surprise people interpret these events in that light.
unsurprisingly, Jimmy makes false claims about NDEs. One can see that by looking at actual research: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Western NDEs Masayuki Ohkado, Ph.D. Chubu University and University of Virginia Bruce Greyson, M.D. University of Virginia - "ABSTRACT: Decades of studies on near-death experiences (NDEs) have revealed both cross-cultural and culture-specific features (Kellehear, 2009) and that it is important to determine which aspects are attributed to the physiological, biological, or psychological mechanisms shared by all humans and which aspects are of cultural origin. In this article, we examine Japanese NDEs and compare their features with generalizations based on observations of Western NDEs. The main differences between Japanese and Western NDEs are the interpretation of the light and the concomitant lack of interaction with it, the image of heaven, and the absence of the life review. We suggest that these characteristics are accounted for in terms of cultural differences."
Unsurprisingly that doesn't affect anything besides your ego and not being able to resist to comment on every video about anything that has to do with theism. Funny man
I was able to find the piece online and read it, and it was very interesting! However, I did not see it falsifying any of the fundamental claims I have made.
@@JimmyAkin I'm sure you didn't, Jimmy, since you need to pretend that every NDE is about your cult's god. "Pointing out that some of the prominent features in Western NDEs, such as the life review, have so far been absent in non- Western NDEs, Kellehear (2009, p. 135) emphasized the importance of exploring cultural factors more thoroughly before turning to biological factors. In this article we focused on Japanese NDEs, which were not included in Kellehear’s (2009) cross-cultural studies, and we compared them to generalizations based on observations of Western NDEs. The main differences were the interpretation of the light and the concomitant lack of interaction with it, the image of heaven, and the lack of the life review. We suggest that these characteristics may be accounted for in terms of cultural backgrounds." the conclusion of the research. your claim here is false "verwhelming majority of reports of1:17religious figures were either God or an 1:20angel of God or Jesus and things1:24reporting non-Christian gods were um1:29were a distinct minority they were1:31outliers even in countries where um1:35belief even in countries where1:36Christianity is not the norm " and this one "Arabic word for God that's all it means1:46Allah is not a different God Allah is1:48God that is how arabic speaking1:51Christians talk about God um" curious how Allah isn't the christain god at all for all of the muslims. angels aren't just any messengers, and curious how I could simply say christians are really seeing other religion's messengers. How do you propose to show these are only from your religion? so we have a phenomena called NDE, and it has nothing to do with your religion.
No one is disputing cultural differences in NDE experiences. You seem to be arguing against a straw man.
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Thanks for all you do.
Great video! Thanks for that book recommendation, this topic is very interesting 👍
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My grandfather who was Protestant, when he was dying saw a woman holding a child that he thought was the Virgin Mary. He also said he saw a waterfall and a mountain with beings and a road that had to be crossed.
Orthodox Christianity is the true Faith. Pope changed faith. Patriarchs not popes
I was once told by a friend that Allah was originally the moon god. Is there any truth in that?
The word Allah was used for God and god, just like in English before Islam even existed. Islam claims to worship the same God as Abraham and they even venerate Our Blessed Mother. They say things absolutely incompatible with Christian doctrine about God, but the idea that "Allah" was the name of a pagan god only isn't accurate. Of course, a moon god could have been called "Allah" just as the Christians refer to God as "Allah" but Muslims are monotheistic.
The pre Islamic pagans had a moon diety called Allah
@@FrJohnBrownSJ coming from a Lebanese Christian family the word allah simply means GOD translated into English
@@justingeorge503 all of their deities were called allah
@FrJohnBrownSJ Thank you, Fr. John. This conversation took place during the 9/11 backlash, so most people weren't overly concerned with the truth. It makes sense how it could be confused.
It's obvious that Steven is trying to mess up the truth with his misinterpretation of the scripture by asserting his deceptive and twisted argument! Good that Jimmy is knowledgeable enough to rebut his personal interpretation of the scripture.
Allah is NOT 'God' Allah is Ba'al. Some Muslims SAY that allah means god, but muslim orthodoxy tells them to lie in order to deceive infidels.
That's just not accurate. Catholics in many Arab speaking countries use the word Allah for God and did so long before Islam existed.
It's actually a contradicting conjunction of El and Elohim. Most who escape the horrors of Islam know this and don't use the word Allah because it has absolutely nothing to do with Yahweh, watch any video of an Arabic speaking ex Muslim and they hammer this point so Christians stop repeating the lie. They even claim prophets in his name, prophets like Elijah who's name literally means Yahweh is my God. Go watch some speakers corner videos and enhance your knowledge of this subject.
I sometimes think Jimmy Akin is working against God.
Ugh! My Godfather is anti-Muslim, and always babbling on about how they practice "taki" or whatever he calls it about "deceiving the infidel". It's fun to BS with him and get him riled up while we're on a job somewhere (helps the day pass). But, c'mon. These people believe in one God, and they exist as a prayerful community (and hence, have a sort of baptism), and generally strive to follow the Commandments
@@caolmountain8281 I spent time in Iraq ministering to persecuted Christians and Muslims.
Damn! This NDE episode was actually good. This touches on the question, What is religion? I think there tends to be this exaggerated sense in American culture--tied deeply with American politics--that all of religion is about choosing (ie voting) the right creeds, the right confessions, the right gods, etc. There's this idea of an "in group", and everyone who disagrees with me about the particular "names" (the parties and the candidates) is just hopelessly wrong, evil, idolatrous, etc. And so we lose sight of the much bigger picture that religion, in general, is an attempt to reconcile the finite and transient here-and-now with the eternal and transcendent hereafter. This is a process that's necessarily going to be full of different symbols and different rituals across different cultures. This is why Catholicism, at its heart, is great. It doesn't deny these different approaches. Rather, it assimilates them, and provides a common vocabulary to Unite cultures, rather than divide them. Man's efforts to reach Heaven may well have resulted in the confusion of the Tower of Babble, but God is not the Author of the confusion, and so the Church seeks to undo this "communication problem" and bring everyone back together, not keep everyone in their isolated little "political parties" (echo chambers) where they endlessly dispute over words with "outsiders"
What you've mentioned is heretical. I highly doubt you're a Catholic, this is not Catholic teachings.
Is that why the pope kisses the quran?
@@grizzly_8917 I vaguely remember when that happened, but I don't know what the Holy Father's rationale was. I don't know much about Islam, but I believe one of their claims is that the Quran is a verifiable miracle because the literary quality can somehow be shown to far exceed anything a human is capable of producing. Catholics believe Beauty is indeed a transcendental emanatiom (sp?) of Almighty God, so I could see that as a possible basis for the kiss
Catholicism does NOT assimilate pagan beliefs
@@WayneDrake-uk1gg and kneeling/praying with them?
Cristian s God is not the muslim alah
Amen.
There is a different way of looking at it. If I tell you I know Will Smith and you say you know Will Smith, and I say Will Smith starred in the movies Men in Black and Star Wars, and you say Will Smith was not in Star Wars but was actually in the movie I Am Legend as well as Men in Black, does that mean I cannot be talking about the same Will Smith? I can be wrong about what movie Will Smith was in, but still I can call the same Will Smith on the phone as you can. In that sense, the Catholics in Arab speaking countries call God Allah the same way Muslims do, and they intend to refer to the same God, although Muslims believe falsehoods about God.
You’re right, theologically, the Christian and Muslim Gods are different, but what Jimmy means here is that any Arabic-speaking person who sees God is going to refer to Him as “Allah,” whether they are Muslim or not. My family is Catholic, and when we speak Arabic in church, in our prayers, or just in our conversations, we use the word “Allah” for God. “Allah” is not a name for God, like Jesus or Krishna for example, but rather a word that means God, like the Spanish “Dios” or the French “Dieu.” Hope that helps!
@@FrJohnBrownSJwould you say Muslims believe falsehoods about God, full stop, or, to carry your analogy a bit further, would you say that the particular "movie" they know Will Smith from leads many of them to have misguided impressions of who Will Smith , the man himself, actually is?
Allah is a contradicting conjunction of El AND Elohim, this is the Arabic etymology and why most who escape Islam refuse to use that word to describe Yahweh as it is in complete contradiction to the Christian faith. Names of Allah -Greatest of Decievers -Father to None -Master of Slaves What's next "Isa is just another name for Jesus" ? It's not. It's a derogatory term that was used by the Sanhedrion to describe Jesus for centuries prior. -hope that helps!
Yes. Sometimes even Christians see non Christian gods in NDEs and sometimes Hindus or others see Jesus. Experiences are very diverse.
I’ve been studying NDEs for years and I don’t know of but one where someone saw another dirty than God, Jesus, or an angel/being of light. Even in that one they said they thought they saw the Hindu goddess Sarasvati but it wasn’t very definitive. If you know of others I’d be very interested to know your sources. Gregory Shushan says there are others but he’s basing this on things like the Tibetan Book of the Dead as sources that are not properly speaking NDE experiences.
@@davidramsey2566I would suggest going to nderf dr Jeffrey longs website . Even though I’m catholic I’d have to disagree with Jimmy akin on this one as Jeffrey longs research has shown a wide variety of experiences of seeing divine figures from different religions . I will check out the book he recommended . Jimmy should have someone who has studied thousands of ndes like NDE researcher dr Jeffrey long to see if that’s what he’s getting from his database of global ndes because from what I’ve seen from his research it shows a wide variety of experiences . I would love to be wrong about but this is so far why I used ndes to give evidence of the afterlife but not to argue for one religion over the other
@@davidramsey2566I wouldn't hold my breath while waiting.
John Burke has written a book about NDE's and many NDE people in India saw Jesus.
@@brianw.5230 again I have to do my research because dr long who has the largest NDE database I know is showing a wide variety of NDE experiences . Like I said we should have an expert from both sides of this subject . Maybe Cameron should invite dr long and Burke together .
Thanks Jimmy!
Thanks for this, Jimmy! 🙏
There is an identical picture of Christ, re-check
Enjoy your content, Mr Akin.
Love this channel!
Can a lay person kiss the altar! I believe not…but then again who knows anymore. 🙏✝️❤️
Weird stories indeed. .
Barts "oral tradition" chineese whisper telephone game is unlike the oral tradition about jesus. The eye-witnesses are still alive to fact check the stories being told. With chinnese whispers you cant intervene in the middle of the game you have to wait till the end in order to notice the difference. Marks written prior to 70ad he puts all the gospels really late. Mark dont need to be in Israel either because he is the interpreter of peter who was an eye-witness. There are a ton of great arguments from scholars who have the book of mark way earlier.