#12128 Did Anyone Teach the Immaculate Conception Before St. Augustine? - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

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Summary

Are Marian doctrines like the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption late inventions, or do they have earlier roots? We explore pre-Augustinian thought, why some doctrines develop differently, and how Marian beliefs compare to teachings like eternal security and sola fide.

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Questions Covered:

12:41 – I know the Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul & Divinity of Jesus. Is it his Resurrected body?
16:30 – Do we have any prior to Augustine who taught the concept of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption? Why is the argument of time work for eternal security and sola fide, but not Marian doctrines?
47:30 – Have you read “Jesus Wept”?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back. Catholic Cancer is live. My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the show and filling in for Sykelet today. It's been a heck of a day. It's been a good one.
0:39.2	We've had, like I said, at the beginning of the show, we had one of the new kids on the block for
0:44.4	the first hour, Alex from The Voice of Reason. It was great to have him here, his debut on the show.
0:49.4	And moving into the second hour, now we have one of the legends of apologetics, the one and only, Tim Staples.
0:55.9	Tim.
0:56.7	Edgar, it is great to be with you, my friend.
0:59.1	It's great to have you here.
1:00.0	It's great to have you here.
1:00.8	It's always a pleasure doing the show with you.
1:02.7	Yeah, I feel like I'm overdressed here, huh?
1:04.8	A little bit, but there's no such thing, you know, in my presence. Come on, come on, tell you know. Yeah, I got the suit on because I'm going to a
1:10.8	dinner right after this. All right, good. Well, I'm glad we were able to catch you before you made it
1:14.4	all the way out there. That was good. All right, well, if you got a question for Tim, go ahead and give us a call.
1:19.5	8883-187-884. That's AAA 31-31 Truth. We're doing an ask me anything on Catholicism today with, with Tim Staples.
1:29.6	Now, Tim, before we get over to calls, I wanted to ask you just a simple question.
1:35.9	And it's probably not going to go on for very long, but you were a Protestant at one point and
1:40.6	eventually became Catholic. I sure was. Yeah, I was talking to Alex and I'm telling
1:45.2	him how we were, you know, the new generation of apologists, it seems that there's a lot of cradle
1:50.6	Catholics, but in your time, a lot of the apologists were all converts. It's true. And a lot of
1:58.0	them, the cradle Catholics didn't actually know their faith. They were learning from the converts. Isn't it something, you know? It's true. And a lot of them, the cradle Catholics didn't actually know their faith.
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