During Christmas week, we’re bringing you another round of weird questions for Jimmy Akin posed by Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live, including time travel and inserting yourself into the Bible, Adam and Eve and belly buttons, lost letters of St. Paul, Jimmy’s most wanted lost books of history, and more.

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Questions in this episode:

• 01:56 – Does Time Travel exist?
• 05:39 – Granting that I time travel back to the past to Jesus’ crucifixion, I take videos of Jesus to prove he exists, and I join Mary and John in approaching him. Is there a possibility that I will be recorded in the Bible? And will the videos and photos that I have taken be erased if I come back from the past?
• 09:31 – Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
• 17:37 – Where are all the cryptid sightings coming from, especially in national parks?
• 28:05 – Archeologists have discovered that there was a small Christian community in the city of Pompeii before the Vesuvius eruption. What if, by some miracle, a scroll somehow survived in the city, with the text of something that claimed to be a “Letter of Paul to the Pompeians”? It follows the format of the universally accepted Pauline epistles, it doesn’t contradict anything Paul wrote previously, and it ultimately seems to be genuinely from Paul. How do you think the Church would respond to the situation?
• 40:18 – What are the top three (or any other arbitrary number) lost books you would love to have? Tell us about them, and tell us why you would love to have them. I’d like to read the Gospel of the Hebrews, for example, in its entirety (instead of the fragments left behind in writings by the early Church Fathers).
• 49:14 – Does the Highlander have a soul since he is immortal? Would an immortal being need a soul?
• 50:46 – Does baptism apply to a person’s entire body? For example, if technology were such that my body died but one cell remained alive and I was regrown immediately from that cell, is my baptism still valid or does the regrown body need to be baptized? Similarly, if a baptized person’s heart (or other organ) is transplanted into another non-baptized person does the organ from the baptized body transmit its baptismal graces to the new body?

Links for this episode:

• Join Jimmy and Dom on pilgrimage in Italy in 2025. Find out more
• Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
• Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore.
• Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page.
• Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord
• Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world
• You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515

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Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com.

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The debut novel Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard. Alien invasion, the Catholic Church, and a failed Latin teacher, Pilgrims is inspired by Augustine’s Confessions and tells the story of a washed-up Latin teacher who gets thrust into the center of humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrials who land at the Vatican and claim to be Catholic. Mysterious World fans who enjoy compelling science fiction from a Catholic point of view can find Pilgrims wherever books are sold and at MRLeonardauthor.com. And for those who enjoy audiobooks, Pilgrims is also available as a full multicast production.

Exodus 90 and the Exodus 90 app. Men, we are called to share the Hope and Joy of Jesus Christ. Our family, friends, and community desperately need us to imitate our Lord to be radically present and available. What if you intentionally lived this Advent season differently? Focused not on buying Christmas presents but sharing the loving presence of Jesus Christ. We want to invite you to join us on the Exodus 90 App and break out of the religion of the world. Join the men of Exodus 90 and Msgr. James Shea, President of the University of Mary, who is our spiritual guide for Advent this year on the Exodus 90 App. Together, we will rediscover the hope that God lays out for us in the coming of his Son into the world. Go to Exodus90.com/sqpn to learn more about Advent on the Exodus 90 App, and to join men from around the world this Advent starting December 1st. Be radically free in Jesus Christ this Advent.

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In Japan, 1954, a man arrives at airport customs with a passport from country that doesn’t exist. He’s arrested, but then vanishes. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who was the man from Taured and could have come from a parallel world as some claim?

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Links for this episode:

• YouTube video on story from 2017
• Reddit Thread
• Snopes summary
• August 15, 1960 The Province newspaper story
• July 29, 1960 House of Commons speech
• Japanese newspaper Reddit thread
• 1961 CIA radio summary
• 1960 CIA radio summary

• Join Jimmy and Dom on pilgrimage in Italy in 2025. Find out more
• Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
• Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore.
• Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page.
• Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord
• Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world
• You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com.

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroupInc.com.

The debut novel Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard. Alien invasion, the Catholic Church, and a failed Latin teacher, Pilgrims is inspired by Augustine’s Confessions and tells the story of a washed-up Latin teacher who gets thrust into the center of humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrials who land at the Vatican and claim to be Catholic. Mysterious World fans who enjoy compelling science fiction from a Catholic point of view can find Pilgrims wherever books are sold and at MRLeonardauthor.com. And for those who enjoy audiobooks, Pilgrims is also available as a full multicast production.

Exodus 90 and the Exodus 90 app. Men, we are called to share the Hope and Joy of Jesus Christ. Our family, friends, and community desperately need us to imitate our Lord to be radically present and available. What if you intentionally lived this Advent season differently? Focused not on buying Christmas presents but sharing the loving presence of Jesus Christ. We want to invite you to join us on the Exodus 90 App and break out of the religion of the world. Join the men of Exodus 90 and Msgr. James Shea, President of the University of Mary, who is our spiritual guide for Advent this year on the Exodus 90 App. Together, we will rediscover the hope that God lays out for us in the coming of his Son into the world. Go to Exodus90.com/sqpn to learn more about Advent on the Exodus 90 App, and to join men from around the world this Advent starting December 1st. Be radically free in Jesus Christ this Advent.

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For hundreds of years, the Catholic Church has had a variety rites to expel evil spirits from people who are possessed by them. But in 1614 and again in 1998, the Church published official rites for the procedure, and in this episode Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what the rites actually say.

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Links for this episode:

• Adam Blai’s The History of Exorcism
• John Thavis’s book The Vatican Prophecies
• Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness
• 1985 CDF norms
• USCCB Q & A on Exorcism
• Exorcism (Catholic Encyclopedia)
• Exorcist
• Demonical Possession
• Demoniacs
• Demonology
• Web archive of older Roman Ritual, including exorcism
• 1975 CDF expert opinion piece on demonology

• Join Jimmy and Dom on pilgrimage in Italy in 2025. Find out more
• Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
• Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore.
• Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page.
• Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord
• Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world
• You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Deliver Contacts, offering honest pricing and reliable service for all your contact lens needs. See the difference at delivercontacts.com.

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

The Grady Group, a Catholic company bringing financial clarity to their clients across the United States. Using safe money options to produce reasonable rates of return for their clients. Learn more by visiting GradyGroupInc.com.

The debut novel Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard. Alien invasion, the Catholic Church, and a failed Latin teacher, Pilgrims is inspired by Augustine’s Confessions and tells the story of a washed-up Latin teacher who gets thrust into the center of humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrials who land at the Vatican and claim to be Catholic. Mysterious World fans who enjoy compelling science fiction from a Catholic point of view can find Pilgrims wherever books are sold and at MRLeonardauthor.com. And for those who enjoy audiobooks, Pilgrims is also available as a full multicast production.

Exodus 90 and the Exodus 90 app. Men, we are called to share the Hope and Joy of Jesus Christ. Our family, friends, and community desperately need us to imitate our Lord to be radically present and available. What if you intentionally lived this Advent season differently? Focused not on buying Christmas presents but sharing the loving presence of Jesus Christ. We want to invite you to join us on the Exodus 90 App and break out of the religion of the world. Join the men of Exodus 90 and Msgr. James Shea, President of the University of Mary, who is our spiritual guide for Advent this year on the Exodus 90 App. Together, we will rediscover the hope that God lays out for us in the coming of his Son into the world. Go to Exodus90.com/sqpn to learn more about Advent on the Exodus 90 App, and to join men from around the world this Advent starting December 1st. Be radically free in Jesus Christ this Advent.

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