#12118 How Do We Know Jesus Wasn’t Muslim? And More Questions - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Some claim Jesus was Muslim, but what does history—and Jesus’ own words—actually show? We break down how to respond to this argument and also explore topics like Halloween costumes, the woman in Revelation 12, sacred art, and purgatory.

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Questions Covered:

13:36 – Toddler wants to dress up as a witch for Halloween, is it ok, would like more clarification on what the church teaches?
20:16 – Sheol is hell not Purgatory, could clarify this statement?
24:10 – I run into folks who argue that Jesus was Muslim, I attempt to tell them he was not, that Jesus was of Jewish descent. How can I more adequately speak to them?
30:18 – Revelation 12, who is the woman, and passage regarding birth pangs and representing Mary? And is it ok to interpret the woman as representing the Church and not Mary?
36:45 – Why in sacred images is God the Father sometimes depicted with a body when scripture says he has no body
42:05 – Travels for work, attends Latin Mass and sees a lot of young people at Mass, would like Joe’s thoughts on why that is
49:16 – How does purgatory relate to plenary indulgences?
50:48 – My daughter passed away 3 years ago. She professed being a Christian on her deathbed. Was this enough?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live.
0:32.7	I am Cy Kelly, your host, Joe Heschmire, continues as our guest this hour.
0:37.2	Joe, the proprietor behind Shameless Popery podcast, your host, Joe Heschmeyer, continues as our guest this hour. Joe, the proprietor behind Shameless Popery, podcast, YouTube page, also author of lots of
0:43.9	wonderful books.
0:44.9	You hear us talking about his books and giving his books away, including, Oh, the
0:48.8	Eucharist is Really Jesus, Pope Peter, one that we didn't publish, but he did in fact write a man named Joseph.
1:00.2	Yeah, that's very timely for yesterday.
1:02.9	Yesterday.
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:04.0	So buy it yesterday, if you're able to time travel.
1:07.0	And we're going to go back to calls.
1:08.0	It's asked me anything.
1:09.0	We're going to go back to calls, but we have a guest first that Joe and I would like to talk with and share with you
1:13.5	because this is something you may have noticed that we've been doing from time to time.
1:17.5	Having on one of these, most are relatively young people, at least compared to me, probably mostly compared to Joe as well,
1:26.6	who are doing a wonderful job in the podcasting world,
1:30.7	in the YouTube world of explaining the faith, defending the faith, inviting people into the
1:37.4	faith. We'll probably talk next week a little bit about how effective all that is. It's amazing
1:42.5	the effect that the Catholic blogosphere,
1:45.2	so to speak, is having. We used to joke about it being a place of great negativity. It's turned
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