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Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Keener's sources examined: 1 Maccabees 12:23 does not support letter-carrier-as-teacher

Mike examines Keener's footnoted sources one by one.

Craig Keener letter carrier as teacher 1 Maccabees 12:23
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Two primary passages Catholic apologists use for purgatory: 1 Corinthians 3 and 2 Maccabees

Identifying the core biblical texts used by Catholics to support the doctrine

1 Corinthians 3 purgatory 1 Corinthians 3 2 Maccabees 12:38-46
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Second passage: 2 Maccabees 12:38-46 — a non-canonical book used by Catholics to support purgatory

Introducing the second Catholic proof-text for purgatory

purgatory 2 Maccabees 12:38-46 Apocrypha
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Background of 2 Maccabees 12: Judas Maccabeus burying fallen Jewish soldiers who were carrying idolatrous amulets

Historical and narrative context for the passage

idolatry 2 Maccabees 12:38-46 Judas Maccabeus
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Reading of 2 Maccabees 12:38-46: Judas makes an expiatory sacrifice and prays for the dead soldiers

Full reading of the second key passage

atonement 2 Maccabees 12:38-46 prayers for the dead
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Jimmy Akin's (Catholic Answers) soft interpretation of 2 Maccabees: the passage presupposes that prayer can help the dead on their journey to heaven

Catholic apologetic reading of 2 Maccabees, specifically from Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers purgatory 2 Maccabees 12:38-46
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

First problem with 2 Maccabees: the book is not accepted by the Jews, not part of Jesus's or Paul's Bible

Canon-based objection to using 2 Maccabees as proof of purgatory

Paul Jesus Apocrypha
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Second problem: the sin committed (idolatry) is a mortal sin in Catholic theology — which disqualifies them from purgatory

Internal contradiction between the 2 Maccabees passage and Catholic theology on mortal sin

idolatry purgatory 2 Maccabees 12:38-46
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Catholic apologetic response: the amulets were 'lucky charms' not idolatrous — Jimmy Akin's baseball sock analogy

Catholic attempt to neutralize the mortal sin problem in 2 Maccabees

eisegesis Catholic Answers idolatry
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

If 2 Maccabees teaches praying for the dead after mortal sin, it overturns Catholic theology on mortal sin and purgatory

Continuing the internal contradiction argument

purgatory 2 Maccabees 12:38-46 Catholic doctrine
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-19

Daniel 11:36-45 — Antiochus IV or the Antichrist?

Listener Stephen (Passenger Ministries) asks whether Daniel 11:36-45 refers to Antiochus IV Epiphanes or the future Antichrist.

Daniel 11:36-45 Antichrist Typology Eschatology
Mike Winger idea 2023-04-07

How Should We View Extrabiblical Books?: With extrabiblical books such as Enoch or 1 & 2 Maccabees, how do you discern within these books if they're true accounts, if they don't contradict our canon?

Q&A question: How Should We View Extrabiblical Books?

Enoch
Mike Winger idea 2021-02-08

Antiochus Epiphanes in 167 BC is the only historical event outside the Bible that uses the exact phrase "abomination of desolation" (1 Maccabees 1:54). He banned Jewish worship, erected an altar to Zeus in the temple, and sacrificed a pig on it — giving Jesus's audience a concrete reference point while Jesus still pointed to a future fulfillment.

Historical background: Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabean revolt

Jesus Antiochus Epiphanes worship