Lying and Hiding the Truth Prudently
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Is it always wrong to lie? Why is the truth so important? Jeff Cavins addresses these questions in today’s podcast. Looking at Church teaching and Scripture, Jeff explains the harm of dishonesty, the goodness of truth, and why, at times, it is right to hide the truth.
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Truthfulness guards what should be kept private.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven's show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and |
| 0:05.4 | evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples. |
| 0:20.0 | This is episode 360 lying and hiding the truth prudently. Welcome to the show again this week my friend. Wow I have really been looking |
| 0:28.0 | forward all week to getting in touch with you and talking with you about a |
| 0:31.6 | topic that I I hear frequently and people ask questions about it frequently |
| 0:37.2 | and it's a subject that doesn't necessarily have the exact black and white answer that people are hoping for, but it is the question |
| 0:47.4 | of lying, telling the truth and lying. |
| 0:51.9 | Are we as Christians called on to tell the truth? |
| 0:56.0 | All the truth and nothing but the truth. |
| 0:58.7 | So help us God. |
| 1:00.4 | Are we called to even tell the truth if it's going to mean the death of a family or an individual? |
| 1:08.0 | I wanted to just spend some time talking about this. |
| 1:11.0 | I've been gathering some notes in scripture and the |
| 1:14.4 | catechism and a few articles that I've been reading so I thought today will just |
| 1:19.2 | kind of chill and listen to some things about this topic and that's why I call lying and of Thomas Aquinas as well. By the way, if you do want some of the quotes or all the quotes I should say from the show, it's easy to do. |
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| 2:00.8 | You know, glitches can happen. So deep in the woods of Minnesota, we got snow now. |
| 2:07.0 | We didn't have snow for the longest time, but coming up in a day or so, the high will be about |
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