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The Thomistic Institute

Is the Bible True and Accurate? | Fr. Terence Crotty

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🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This talk was given at the University College Dublin on February 25, 2020.


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Fr. Terence Crotty, OP, is a doctor of Biblical Theology and is Student Master of the Irish Dominican Province.

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0:00.0

If any, at any stage you can't hear me, or my accent is too strong or I talk too fast,

0:09.0

which I do when I get nervous, just let me know.

0:13.0

I spent three years studying in UCD in before most of you were born,

0:20.0

in 1996 and 1999,

0:23.6

and they were great.

0:26.6

I'm not saying. I hated being sent here.

0:28.6

I was sent here to do my philosophy for priesthood,

0:31.6

and I hated thought of it, but as soon as I arrived, it was just wonderful.

0:35.6

So I did philosophy and history and politics in my first year

0:39.3

it was great so I'm going to speak tonight on the Bible as true and the now this means many things for many different people okay so at the end we'll have time for questions. Okay, so if I don't

0:55.6

cover the area you're interested in, speak about it. And so, for example, if we speak about

1:02.7

the truth of scripture, some people will think right away evolution, okay, and creation and so on

1:09.7

and so forth. Other people will think, can we believe in Jesus at all?

1:13.6

Or other people will think, how do I know what's right and wrong?

1:16.6

Okay, so it's moral, it's sort of scientific, it's to do with faith, and all these things.

1:21.6

So I'm just going to give my own angle on it, and then you, up the end, hopefully we get plenty time to, your question

1:31.7

and comments as well.

1:32.7

Okay, but if you want to interrupt at any stage, please do, because it's always useful

1:36.8

for me to know what you're thinking instead of just looking down at people who are

1:41.7

not in their heads or not even that.

1:45.0

Right.

1:51.0

So the short answer in one word is script for true is yes.

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