It’s Last Call! Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin is back to fact-check viral James White clips on salvation, Scripture, and the Apocrypha.

Pints: Last Call Ep. 32

📚Resources Mentioned:

Evidence for Christ by Jimmy Akin: https://shop.catholic.com/evidence-for-christ/?srsltid=AfmBOorIW4PinBCTqKBGFDh7h0S83DSMhfVkk9Z0saqCNRCNaDvrQ467

Jimmy Akin Debates James White Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhi3sQqFBo

Jimmy Akin Debates James White Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPWFGEnQbbs

More From Jimmy Akin: https://jimmyakin.com

The Jimmy Akin Podcast: https://www.catholic.com/audio/tjap

Jimmy’s Mysterious World: https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyAkin

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

Truthly 30 Day Free Trial: https://get.truthly.ai/TlbX/MATT30

Today Matt & Jimmy kick back to discuss everything from the ethics of marijuana usage and Aquinas’ four conditions for a genuine law, to the MKUltra program and the SSPX schism. Hold on tight, you’re in for a treat.

Ep. 596

📚 Resources Mentioned:

Jimmy’s Mysterious World: https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyAkin

The Jimmy Akin Podcast: https://www.catholic.com/audio/tjap

Evidence for Christ: https://shop.catholic.com/evidence-for-christ/?srsltid=AfmBOorIW4PinBCTqKBGFDh7h0S83DSMhfVkk9Z0saqCNRCNaDvrQ467

Jimmy Akin article on the SSPX Schism: https://www.catholic.com/audio/tjap/excommunicated-the-sspx-in-schism-again

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

Truthly 30 Day Free Trial: https://get.truthly.ai/TlbX/MATT30

Today on Last Call we are honoring and remembering the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk on the 1 year anniversary of his assassination.

Pints: Last Call Ep. 31

📚Resources Mentioned:

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

Truthly 30 Day Free Trial: https://get.truthly.ai/TlbX/MATT30

Working on an entire album of lofi music. Here's one of those songs. Album should drop next week. THEN, a couple of weeks after that we hope to have our 24/7 stream up and running.

THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

In their eagerness to proclaim the unity of God and man in Christ, some heretics went to the opposite extreme and taught that not only was there one person, but also a single nature, in God and man. This error took its rise from Arius. To defend his position that those scriptural passages where Christ is represented as being inferior to the Father, must refer to the Son of God Himself, regarded in His assuming nature, Arius taught that in Christ there is no other soul than the Word of God who, he maintained, took the place of the soul in Christ’s body. Thus when Christ says, in John 14:28, “The Father is greater than I,” or when He is introduced as praying or as being sad, such matters are to be referred to the very nature of the Son of God. If this were so, the union of God’s Son with man would be effected not only in the person, but also in the nature. For, as we know, the unity of human nature arises from the union of soul and body.

The...

RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

We indicated above that the reparation of human nature could not be effected either by Adam or by any other purely human being. For no individual man ever occupied a position of pre-eminence over the whole of nature; nor can any mere man be the cause of grace. The same reasoning shows that not even an angel could be the author of man’s restoration. An angel cannot be the cause of grace, just as he cannot be man’s recompense with regard to the ultimate perfection of beatitude, to which man was to be recalled. In this matter of beatitude angels and men are on a footing of equality. Nothing remains, therefore, but that such restoration could be effected by God alone.

But if God had decided to restore man solely by an act of His will and power, the order of divine justice would not have been observed. justice demands satisfaction for sin. But God cannot render satisfaction, just as He cannot merit. Such a service pertains to one who ...

Following Fulton
On Miracles, Messes, and My Guy Sheen

It’s a bittersweet feeling. That band in college you tracked down in questionable venues. Of course, I’m dating myself here, showing up at the record store on Tuesdays to peek at whatever obscure new releases came in. Then you’d force burned CDs on your friends, family, and coworkers, insisting they listen to this hidden gem you had connected with so closely.

Then comes the bitter part. Sometime later, you hear them on the radio, in a commercial, or catch the music video on TV. The next tour comes around and suddenly they’re playing actual venues, packed with “fans” singing along to the hits, and you start seeing people on the street wearing their merch.

What was “yours” is now “theirs.”

But isn’t that exactly what you wanted years ago when you were passing their tracks around like gospel tracts?

Well, yes.

And no.

That’s how I feel about soon-to-be Blessed Fulton Sheen.

The beatification is just around the corner, and my algorithm is filled with Sheen bios, pictures, quotes, merch, and so, so many people claiming ...

One more thought of the day:

An atheist on social media asked Christians that if they found out that God doesn't actually exist what would they do? What Christian virtues would they abandon?

A lot of people got defensive and argued against the question. Some were honest. I decided to actually consider the exercise and felt two particular things:

1. I would not really change myself too much because I like the virtues and character I have developed and see the benefits of being a good person.

2. One particular sin jumped out as something I REALLY want to do and would be glad to have the freedom to do it.

That's when it struck me that this is actually a really good exercise for Christians, because the sins you're immediately attracted to and would jump on reveal the ones we have yet to be set free from!

This also piggy-backs on an argument I had with God just yesterday about why He keeps allowing situations to pop up where I sin in an area I frequently confess and am trying not to ...