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So it's a real pleasure for me to be back here

with you in Trinity.

The last time I was giving a Timistic Institute talk,

it was all about how early Irish Christians

understood the pagan past. And it was a pleasure to talk about that question, which has

interested me for ages, and it was even more of a pleasure to spend time with other people

who were interested in such a strange question. But I think nobody could deny that that is

not a particularly important question.

It might have some academic importance, but it's in no way a life-changing question.

Tonight's question is different.

Should I believe that Jesus is God?

That is a bit more significant.

If Jesus is true God and true man, as the church believes, If he is, as the Nicene Creed proclaims,

God from God, light from light, true God, from true God, consubstantial with the Father,

then his teachings deserve our study, his actions deserve our imitation, and he himself

deserves our worship. If he is a mere man on the other hand,

then what he said and did, it might all be very nice. It might even be inspiring, but it is no

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