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The SkyePod - Air Mail (Patreon)

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In this highly theological edition of The SkyePod, Skye answers questions about free will, Heaven, and hearing the voice of God. What red flags should we look for to see if we are hearing the Holy Spirit or just ourselves? Will we have free will in Heaven? And why would Skye choose the Star Wars prequel trilogy over the Star Wars sequel trilogy?

Questions covered:

If you had to watch one Star Wars trilogy that's not the OT, would you watch the prequel trilogy or the sequel trilogy?

There has been a lot of talk lately in Christian circles about how doubts are fine. That God can handle our doubts and questions and that doubts and questions ultimately grow our faith. This is a nice change from the history of shaming doubt in the church. However, I struggle with passages in the gospels where it appears that Jesus rebukes people for not having enough faith. How do you reconcile these rebukes with the idea that God can handle our doubts and questions?

How do you read all the books you discuss in your interviews? Do you take speed reading classes, have a system to skim through them, or have people who read and summarize them for you? I've always been a reader, and I can read faster than the average person, but there's no way I could talk about all the books you discuss. How do you do that?

I have a friend who in the last few years started reading early church fathers (ie.Augustine, Aquinas, Ignatius). After being raised in a good Christian family his entire life, he now believes the only way to follow God is to convert to Roman Catholicism. Can you help me understand this leap?

If the ability to sin is what makes obedience valuable (we are not robots who have to obey), why doesn't that follow through to heaven/new earth? If there is no sin there, does the inability to sin cheapen our obedience/love? Or will we have the ability, but won't choose it? Does competition that comes from sports belong in New Creation?

How do you know whether the voice in your head is the Holy Spirit or your own mind?

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Jim Stauffer

Prequel Pod racers were (the only thing?) worth watching.

David B.

I have not yet listened to the episode, but I'm tempted to say that if you want to understand why your friend believes he is called, or that everyone is called, to join the Roman Catholic Church... er... ask him? That said, I am on the Catholic end of the spectrum myself, in the Anglican Communion (Episcopalian, specifically--from our point of view, we are Catholic, just not Roman)--if I came to believe that the Episcopal and other Anglican churches did not have Apostolic Succession, then I would have to go back to the RC Church or go to Eastern Orthodoxy. I wasn't raised in any religion--I'm Jewish by blood, but was not raised in that either--and when I became convinced of Christianity in high school (C.S. Lewis was instrumental in this), I picked the RC church, on the grounds that everything else broke away from it, and therefore it was the original. A few years later I realized I didn't agree with everything in it (though now I'm more comfortable with some of those matters, but less comfortable with certain others), and using the free college phone, contacted every single Christian denomination in the yellow pages (this was 1985--no internet) to find out their beliefs, and wound up in the Episcopal Church. I later went to a Southern Baptist church for almost a year (Campus Crusade and such as well), but ultimately was still convinced of the Catholic end of the spectrum. For me it has indeed been reading the oldest Christian material that has convinced me that, yes, and this is not meant to be rude to anyone--I know I'm an anomaly in not being Evangelical as a Holy Post fan--the Catholic end of the spectrum, with genuinely supernatural sacraments (the real presence, in some way, of Christ in the Eucharist, for example, however it is explained (the RCs believe in transubstantiation, but the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox don't pin it down as precisely as that--as C.S. Lewis said, the command was "Take, eat," not "Take, understand"), Apostolic Succession through the laying on of hands, sacramentally ordained bishops and priests (the Episcopal Church, breaking away from the Church or England after the US Revolutionary War, is called the Episcopal Church because of the order of bishops, i.e. the episcopacy), and so on. That doesn't mean that other Christians aren't Christians, of course. In the Anglican Communion, we believe that the Pope is the valid (sacramentally ordained in Apostolic Succession) Bishop of Rome, perhaps even first among equals, but not the head of the earthly Church, whereas of course Rome doesn't acknowledge our own orders as valid, so it's a complicated relationship with Rome. And of course, there are an array of Anglican churches which are not in communion with the Anglican Communion (in communion with the Church of England)--ACNA (waves to Fr. Esau, as I think that's his church) and others--some/most/all of which are not fans of the Episcopal Church or the C of E because some things are considered too liberal for them, ranging from the ordination of women (to the priesthood or episcopacy), to how LGBTQ people are regarded/treated, to how firm a theology is required of members or clergy (to which I will say that the LGBTQ issues and how theology is treated are going to vary by church, diocese, or member--in terms of theology, we've had some terrible cases (Bishop Spong!), but the official theology of the church (see the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, the one we use to this day) is still indeed orthodox, and nothing in our formal doctrine requires anyone to believe anything unorthodox at all (I wrestled with leaving years ago, but ultimately decided to stay).

David B.
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The tl;dr answer is (1) ask your friend, (2) actually, you could also ask Kaitlyn or Esau as well, and (3) in my own case as someone on the Catholic end of the spectrum, it's from reading the earliest Christian documents, including Christian history, which helped me conclude that the Catholic end of the spectrum (which in my view includes Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Roman Catholic Church -- and a couple of much smaller, much less-well-known ones, as well, long story) has valid, sacramental Apostolic Succession, through the laying on of hands and anointing, and allows the priest to consecrate the Eucharist as the genuine, real-presence-in-one-way-or-another, Body and Blood of Christ. That's the very simplest answer.