Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for Living, Understanding, and Defending

Your Catholic Faith.

I'm Psy, Kelley at Your Hosts.

Last time we talked with Jimmy Aiken, we talked about when did the early church know that

Jesus was God?

And now we continue with the early church theme to ask Jimmy about the controversies

of the early church.

What were the controversies of that first century group?

What were the things that God argued about and who were the parties to those arguments?

Jimmy Aiken, of course, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers and the proprietor of

Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

Thank you for coming back, Jimmy.

My pleasure.

So in the early church, within the first century, I think maybe when I was a child, I thought

like a child and I thought, what a golden era of no controversy when the apostles were

around and it was just the devoted spreading of the gospel and without strife.

And then you read the New Testament.

And then I read the letters of St. Paul in particular and I was like, wait, what?

So controversy around Jesus starts the day, Jesus says repent and believe the good news.

Basically, yes, there had already been controversy with John the Baptist who preached the same

message and now Jesus is making himself a target.

And there was a lot of confusion about Jesus even during his own ministry and the subject

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