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  What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? What is their relevance for Christianity? Find out these answers and more from this episode of   Catholic Answers Live . Questions Covered: 16:00  - What would you say to people who would dismiss the Essenes as just a fringe cult?   25:00  - What do the Dead Sea Scrolls teach us about His childhood and early adulthood?   29:15  - What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?   35:20  - Was St. Paul an Essene?   44:38  - Considering the Dead Sea Scrolls, why did the apostles choose the Septuagint type instead of the others?   48:44  - In Mark 4 Jesus says some will not be converted. I once heard that that verse was a reference to Isaiah, is this true and if so, what does that mean?  

  Questions Covered 8:56 – If Martin Luther was a Catholic priest, then why doesn’t the Lutheran church have apostolic succession?   12:19  - Why did the popes stop wearing the crowns and what is the importance of the crowns?   22:00  - If the Eucharist is the full body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus, does it have a consciousness?   35:06  - I’m confused about the sequence of becoming a saint, what is the order?    What happened to the physical bodies of Mary and Jesus when they entered heaven?   41:50  - 1 Pt 3:21 on baptism.  I’m a protestant looking into Catholicism. Can you clarify the verse? How do you reconcile it with the Church’s teaching on Baptism?   49:32  - If God is present everywhere, does that mean he’s present in hell?    

  Questions Covered 10:00  - I’ve seen images of the Holy Spirit with a red cross over it, what symbolism does that have? And why did the Holy Spirit conceive Jesus instead of Jesus doing it himself?   18:49  - If the Orthodox Church is reunited with the Catholic Church, would it pose a problem if we recognized the book of Enoch and others?   39:04  - What is the role of ecumenism in Faith and practice in the Catholic Church?  

  Questions Covered 8:05 – The Church Fathers say the body is the same before and after the fall and the resurrection. What does that mean?   14:39  - I was talking to my sister who is an atheist and believes in the spirit realm. How would you plead that the spirit world and God can coexist?   20:02  - With the Catholic understanding of baptism being salvific, what role does the person’s faith play?   31:51  - How did the early Church work through different people who taught different teachings on Christ like heretics?   37:36  - Is calling people hateful and racial names a sin against charity and if not, what is it a sin against?   49:14  - Can a non-Catholic adult receive the anointing of the sick?  

  Questions Answered 7:04 – I am a non-Catholic. What do Catholics believe with what happened to Jesus on the cross compared to a Calvinistic understanding?   17:39  - What is your favorite church father?   39:48  - Rev. 9:6 “medicine being witchcraft” How do we interpret the verse?   45:12 Are their other Scriptures that are not in the Bible that are valid, such as the Gospel of Thomas?  

Questions Covered 6:40 – Why do bad things happen to good people and not always to bad people?  15:55  - How did John the Baptist and his disciples get separated from Jesus?  34:27  - Why did the way we receive communion change from on the tongue to in the hand?  43:19  - My niece is Catholic and engaged to a Catholic. My father is questioning whether it’s a sin to attend the wedding since they are getting married outside of the Church. 

  Questions Covered 09:18  - Is the trinity only conceptually or universally revealed to mankind as three persons in one substance?   34:03  - If a priest is celebrating Mass and he’s not in the state of grace, is he exempted from consuming the host during consecration?   44:47  - As someone in RCIA, how can I better develop into a Catholic and into a Catholic who’s soon to be married?   51:08  - Is heaven on earth?