#12110 Where Does the Bible Say We’re Culpable for Not Speaking Against Sin? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 22 March 2025

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Summary

Are we responsible for staying silent when others sin? We explore what Scripture says, plus why some parishes don’t offer the chalice, how to pray for a seriously ill loved one, and the meaning of “action follows being” in Thomistic philosophy.

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Questions Covered:

02:44 – Where does it say in the bible that we would be culpable if we don’t speak up against someone else’s sin?
10:57 – Do you think the people present at the Tower of Babel were different races?
24:18 – Why do some parishes not offer the chalice during communion?
35:00 – What type of novena or sacrifice should I be doing for my very ill 27-year-old daughter?
50:58 – What evidence do we have for the Thomistic principle of action following being?

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0:33.6	Jimmy Aiken, our guest this hour, it's asked me anything.
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0:50.9	Jimmy, I already mentioned last hour when we talked a little bit about Jimmy Aiken's
0:54.4	Mysterious World. He's the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, but he also has a
0:57.9	podcast called the Jimmy Aiken Podcasts, and each week you can also get new episodes
1:04.1	there. What's happening on the Jimmy Aiken podcast, Jimmy? This coming Monday, I have a
1:10.2	video or an audio coming out on N.T. Wright, who's a famous
1:16.4	British scholar, and the priesthood of all believers. The priesthood of all believers is a concept
1:23.3	that you often hear about from our friends in the Protestant community that basically says
1:28.7	based on a couple of verses in the New Testament most prominently in First Peter that all Christians
1:35.2	are priests and they infer from this that therefore there shouldn't be a special ministerial
1:42.4	priesthood like we have in the Catholic Church and like
1:47.4	they had in the Old Testament. And so I play clips from a number of Protestant authorities
1:57.4	discussing this concept and advocating this concept.
2:01.0	And then I pulled the big surprise.
2:04.7	And I quote, N.T. Wright, endorsing the big surprise.
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