Time-Travel Mass Before Jesus? Jesus’s DNA, Psychic Conversion & More Weird Questions

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MYS438: Could a priest who traveled back in time say a valid Mass before Jesus instituted the Eucharist? Did Mary contribute DNA to Jesus, or was his genetic code entirely new? And would psychically possessing someone and walking them into confession count as a conversion?

Jimmy Akin answers listeners’ weird questions on Catholic Answers Live with host Cy Kellett, and Dom Bettinelli brings the program to Mysterious World. Jimmy weighs whether Mr. Eko’s baptisms on LOST were valid when he was only impersonating a priest, and what Thomas Aquinas and later theologians said about Mary’s contribution to the body of Christ.

Ancient astronaut theorists such as Giorgio Tsoukalos say the gods of old were aliens with advanced technology. Is it blasphemous to think of God and the angels that way? Jimmy explains why surface similarities are not evidence, and why no alien could be the infinite, uncreated God Christians worship.

Is Malachi Martin credible? Jimmy looks at the exorcism author’s record, from the doctorates he claimed to a 1973 book in which he denied the Second Coming. He also explains what Einstein’s theory of relativity added to Newton, using a flashlight on a moving train, and the difference between special and general relativity.

Why did people live so long in Genesis? Jimmy assesses the idea that the patriarchs’ ages describe clans rather than individuals, and offers his own reading of the numbers. He separates the Michigan Melon Heads urban legend from its real Catholic connection, a minor seminary at the Felt Mansion in Allegan County.

Other questions: how much evidence exists for charismatic gifts such as healing and speaking in tongues, whether cosmetic surgery counts as mutilation, and the ethics of computers made from human brain cells.

Plus listener feedback on episode 427, the Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri.

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Chapters:

  • 0:00:00 – Intro
  • 0:00:41 – Programming note: Weird Questions all October
  • 0:00:58 – Today’s weird questions
  • 0:02:05 – Catholic Answers Live: a dust storm, a thunderstorm and propinquity
  • 0:07:09 – Would psychically possessing someone make their conversion count? (Max)
  • 0:15:19 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 0:17:45 – Were Mr. Eko’s baptisms on LOST valid? (Will)
  • 0:21:35 – Did Mary contribute DNA to Jesus? (Todd)
  • 0:27:04 – Is it blasphemous to call God and angels aliens? (Jager Vom Abilene)
  • 0:37:09 – A plastic menagerie and a secret YouTube message
  • 0:41:24 – How credible was Malachi Martin? (Patrick Abbott)
  • 0:45:56 – What does relativity add to Newton? (Fimiliar Galaxy 9)
  • 0:52:04 – Thank you to Patrons
  • 0:52:36 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
  • 0:53:18 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • 0:55:08 – How should the long lifespans in Genesis be understood? (Virginia Charlotte)
  • 1:03:31 – Jimmy Akin Podcast plug on Catholic Answers Live
  • 1:09:01 – Is there a Catholic connection to the Michigan Melon Heads? (Boom Botz)
  • 1:14:08 – How much evidence is there for charismatic gifts today? (Julian)
  • 1:22:09 – Is cosmetic surgery a form of mutilation? (S. Medrano)
  • 1:33:44 – Could a time-traveling priest consecrate the Eucharist? (Titus Constantine)
  • 1:40:50 – What are the ethics of computers running on human brain cells? (Dog Fight 2018)
  • 1:43:44 – Mysterious Feedback: #427 The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri
  • 1:53:10 – Your mysterious feedback
  • 1:53:45 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
  • 1:53:50 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
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  • 1:55:56 – Outro

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