Chapter
12.9
White Lies & God
Qur’an Lies – Bible Lies – God Lies - Honest Lie
– Noble Lie - Polite Lie –
Jocose Lie
Fake News – Disinformation – Minimization – Lying
by omission – Half Truth - Bluff
Fibs - Bullshit - Exaggeration – Memory Hole –
Defamation - Fraud - Lying in Trades
Puffery - Pathological lying – Perjury – Cover Up
– Deflecting – Lies to Children
First Word
As
a child, we would cross our fingers when we told a
lie, somehow that made it okay. I can
remember spanking my first child because he had lied to me; I was so hurt and
in unbelief; where
did he learn to lie? I know; from me and I learned it from Adam and Eve. Since the serpent deceived Adam and Eve in
the beginning of time, we have wrestled with deception which has become a contagious cancer that has spread throughout
humanity.
Does God hate all lies or are there
situations that are appropriate to LIE or DECEIVE and be justified and overlooked? Is there
such a thing as a Nobel, virtuous, polite, honest or an innocent
lie? Does God ever reward a sin because of a pure motive,
a deception that might otherwise be judged good for an unselfish reason? Are there 50
SHADES OF LIES?
Wikipedia
- Lies
A fib is a lie that is considered easy to
forgive due to revolving around trivial matters, such as a child fibbing that
the family dog broke a vase, when in actuality it was the child that
accidentally broke it.
A lie is a statement used intentionally for the
purpose of deception. The practice
of communicating lies is called lying, and a person who communicates a lie
may be termed a liar.
White lies are minor lies which could be considered
harmless, or even beneficial, in the long term. White lies are also considered to be used for the greater good.
White lies are often used to shield
someone from a hurtful or emotionally damaging truth, especially when not
knowing the truth is completely harmless.
An honest lie or confabulation can be identified by
verbal statements or actions that inaccurately describe history, background,
and present situations. There is
generally no intent to misinform and the individual is unaware that their
information is false.
A noble lie, which also could be called a strategic
untruth, is one that would normally cause discord if uncovered, but
offers some benefit to the liar and assists in an orderly society, therefore,
potentially beneficial to others. It is
often told to maintain law, order and safety.
A polite lie is a lie that
a politeness standard requires, and which is usually known to be
untrue by both parties. Whether such lies are acceptable is heavily dependent
upon culture. A common polite lie in
international etiquette is to decline invitations because of "scheduling
difficulties". Similarly, the butler lie is a small lie which is usually sent
electronically, and is used to terminate
conversations or to save face.
Lie-to-children is a phrase that describes a simplified
explanation of technical or complex subjects as a teaching method for children
and laypeople.
Jocose lies are lies meant in jest,
intended to be understood as such by all present parties. Teasing
and irony are examples. A more elaborate instance is seen in some
story telling traditions, where the storyteller's insistence that the story is
the absolute truth, despite all evidence to the contrary (a tall
tale), is considered humorous.
A half-truth is a deceptive statement that
includes some element of truth. The statement might be partly true, the
statement may be totally true, but only part of the whole truth, or it may
employ some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, or double meaning,
especially if the intent is to deceive, evade, blame or misrepresent
the
truth.
To bluff is to pretend to have a capability or
intention one does not actually possess.
Bluffing is an act of deception that is rarely seen as immoral.
Lying in trade occurs when the seller of a product or
service may advertise untrue facts about the product or service in order to
gain sales, especially by competitive advantage.
Puffery is an exaggerated claim typically found in
advertising and publicity announcements, such as "the highest quality at
the lowest price", or "always votes in the best interest of all the
people". Such statements are
unlikely to be true, but cannot be proven false and so do not violate trade
laws.
Speaking with forked tongue is a phrase that means to deliberately say one thing
and mean another or, to be hypocritical, or act in a duplicitous manner. In the longstanding tradition of
many Native American tribes, "speaking with a
forked tongue" has meant lying, and a person was no longer
considered worthy of trust, once he had been shown to "speak with a forked tongue." Today people distrust the NEWS MEDIA as well as social media.
FAKE
NEWS is a type of yellow journalism that consists of
deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and
broadcast news media or online social media.
Bullshit does not necessarily have to be a complete
fabrication. While a lie is related by a
speaker who believes what is said is false, bullshit is offered by a speaker
who does not care whether what is said is true or not because the speaker is
more concerned with giving the hearer some specific impression.
Lying by omission, also known as a continuing misrepresentation
or quote
mining, occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster
a misconception. Lying by omission includes the failure to correct pre-existing
misconceptions.
Disinformation is intentionally false or
misleading information that is spread in a calculated way to deceive
target audiences.
An exaggeration occurs when the most fundamental aspects
of a statement are true, but only to a certain degree. It is also seen as "stretching the truth" or
making something appear more powerful, meaningful, or real than it actually
is.
Minimization is the opposite of exaggeration. It is a
type of deception involving denial coupled
with rationalization in situations where complete denial is implausible.
Defamation is the communication of a false statement
that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group,
government, religion, or nation.
A memory hole is a mechanism for the alteration
or disappearance
of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other
records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as
part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened.
A cover-up may be used to deny, defend or obfuscate
one's own (or one's allies or group's) errors, one's embarrassing actions or
lifestyle.
To deflect is to avoid the subject that the lie is
about, not giving attention to the lie.
When attention is given to the subject the lie is based around,
deflectors ignore or refuse to respond.
Skillful deflectors are passive-aggressive people, who when confronted
with the subject choose to ignore and not respond.
Fraud refers to the act of inducing another person or people
to believe a lie in order to secure material or financial gain for the liar.
Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false
statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of
law, or in any of various sworn statements in writing.
Pathological lying or compulsive lying is a behavior of
habitual or compulsive lying. The individual may be aware they are lying,
or may believe they are telling the truth, being unaware that they are relating
fantasies.
Wikipedia
Qur’an Lies
I professed my faith in Jesus Christ as a Child at
the age of ten, although I had not actually read all of the Bible. I was accepted into the Christian community
and continued to learn and grow in knowledge.
Many adults today say they are Christians, but have not read the Bible and rarely go to church. Such is the case of many Muslims who quickly snap to
attention and say that they are a RELIGION OF
PEACE,
but confess they have never actually
read the Qur’an.
Islam; The Qur’an is a book given to the “Last Prophet” MUHAMMAD, that was claimed to be the perfect
revelation of Allah. So many of the
passages are not fully understood without the aid of “The Hadith” which clarifies the Qur’an’s intent.
The Hadith is a companion
book to the
Qur’an that shows how to put the
guidance of the Qur’an into practice.
It’s a collection of sayings, deeds and the behavior of Muhammad
including; eating,
sleeping, praying, mating, planning revenge on his enemies and dispensing
justice.
These actions of Muhammad were not ordinary acts; but were considered
the actions of “Allah, and A Good Muslim will
do all these same things as well as name their children Muhammad. The Hadith in some
sects is followed more closely than the Qur’an and its sayings can supersede the Qur’an.
The Ayatollah Khomeini said, “The purest joy in Islam is to kill
and to be killed for Allah”. There can
be no peace with the Jews or Christians
or any other non-Islamic people; and that if peace must be made, only a
truce is permissible and that “for a maximum of 10 years as an expedient to hone our swords,
whet our blood and strengthen our will.”
As I study the Qur’an and the Hadith, I
find that when a Muslim says that their religion is a REGION OF PEACE, I see it as a BOLD FACE LIE,
they are at WAR with
everyone. What I read is that they are to pretend to be at peace with
those of other faiths while they make plans to KILL them.
Jeremiah 23:25 – There are prophets who
prophesy LIES
25 I HAVE HEARD WHAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SAID
WHO
PROPHESY LIES IN MY NAME, saying, ‘I
have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
(ESV)
It’s in the
Qur’an
***
Sura 5:75 – Jesus was just one of many messengers of Allah
75 CHRIST,
the son of Mary was NO MORE THAN A
MESSENGER.
Many were the messengers that passed away before him.
*** Sura 4:157 – Jesus was made to appear to die on the
cross
157 They (the
Jews) said (in boast), “We killed CHRIST JESUS the
son of Mary, THE MESSENGER
OF ALLAH”
– but they
killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them,
and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge,
but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not.
*** Sura 5:47 – Christians are judged as rebels
47 Let
the People of “THE GOSPEL” judge by what Allah hath revealed therein. If any do fail to judge by (the
light of) what Allah
hath revealed, they are (no better than) those who rebel.
*** Sura 9:29 –
Kill, convert or subjugate Christians
and Jews.
29 FIGHT THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN ALLAH nor the Last
Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger,
nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book (Jews
and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah (Muslim tax) with willing
submission, and feel themselves subdued
*** Hadith 9:57 – Kill
the infidel
57 Whoever changes
his Islamic religion should be KILLED.
*** Sura 9:123 – FIGHT the Unbeliever
with HARDNESS
123 O you believe! Fight those of the
unbelievers who are near to you and
let them find in you hardness.
*** Sura 9:5 –
Lie in wait, seize and slay the idolaters
5 When the sacred
months have passed, SLAY the idolaters wherever ye find them, seize
them; LIE IN WAIT FOR
THEM.
*** Sura 8:12 – Cast TERROR – Cut off their heads
12 I will CAST
TERROR into the hearts
of those who
disbelieve. Therefore STRIKE OFF
THEIR HEADS
and STRIKE OFF EVERY FINGERTIP of
them."
Bible Lies
As a perpetual student of the Book I see stories of
LYING particularly in the family of Abraham,
God’s chosen man to be the father of many nations. Abraham had Ishmael by Sarah’s maidservant
Hagar and that gave us the lies of Islam as found in
the Qur’an, but now let’s look at the lies of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob as found in the Book.
ABRAHAM’S wife Sarah also happened to be his half-sister. She was beautiful to behold and when King
Abimelech saw her; Abraham thought that the king would kill him to get
Sarah. Abraham omitted telling the King
that she was his WIFE and only told
him that she was
his SISTER. What he said was not a lie, but by omitting
some facts; he had injected SPIN, a white LIE to save his own life. Was this OK for A MAN
OF GOD, after all it was
done to save his life. SELAH: ponder that.
SARAH, Abraham’s
wife had visitors that told Abraham, SARAH,
WILL HAVE A SON. Sarah overheard
the conversation and laughed silently to
herself. The Lord asked Abraham, why did
Sarah laugh? Sarah was afraid and LIED and
said she
didn’t laugh and the Lord said YES YOU DID.
Although Sarah thought she was too old to have a child, a year later she gave
birth to Isaac; his name means LAUGHTER;
God still kept His promise.
ISAAC, Abraham’s first born of Sarah moved to Gerar and the men there thought his wife Rebekah looked pretty good and asked him about
her.- Isaac thinking they would kill him to get
Sarah, LIED just
like his father and said, SHE IS MY SISTER. While this probably saved his
life, it was still a lie.
JACOB conspired with his mother Rebekah to
trick his BLIND father Israel
into giving him the blessing that was supposed to go to the oldest son Esau.
Rebekah cooked the meal, put Esau’s
stinky clothes on Jacob and some harry lamb skins on Jacob’s arms and neck and
then JACOB LIED THREE TIMES to his father
and finally cheated Esau out of the blessing. I don’t think this qualifies as a white lie,
nor was it in a time of war with fear of immediate death. SELAH
This was already God’s plan for Jacob to receive the blessing; the LORD had said to Rebekah, “Two
nations are in your womb, the one shall
be stronger than the other, and THE OLDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER; so why did Rebekah feel it was necessary
to HELP GOD by lying and trickery.
Could God be pleased with their CON GAME of deceit? I think that Rebekah and Jacob were blessed in spite of
their trickery not because of it.
With all that
being said; the question that begs to be asked is;
Do Christians today have occasion
to LIE with God’s blessing?
The Book does
not explicitly say that God approved of their lies when He blessed them, but
there’s also not a single word of rebuke either. It
seems that when lying saves people from evil it’s legitimate and to us God seems to be pleased, but not
waiting on God can bring on other unrealized
consequences. In the case of Sarah
and Abraham getting ahead of God,
WE
NOW HAVE THE MUSLIMS WHO WANT TO KILL US.
ABRAHAM - Genesis
20:2-5 – Abraham’s wife was also his half-sister
2 And ABRAHAM
said of Sarah his
wife, “She is my
sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a
dream by night and said to him, “Behold, YOU ARE A DEAD MAN because of the woman whom you have
taken, for SHE IS A MAN’S WIFE.”
4 Now Abimelech had not approached
her. So he said, “Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
5 Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my
sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’
(ESV)
SARAH - Genesis
18:9-16 – Sarah LIED; she said she did not laugh
9 Where is Sarah, your wife?” the
visitors asked. “She’s inside the tent,” Abraham replied.
10 Then one of them
said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, SARAH, WILL HAVE A SON!”
Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.
11 Abraham and
Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of
having children.
12 So she laughed
silently to herself and said, “How could a
worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my
husband—is also so old?”
13 Then the LORD said to Abraham, “WHY DID SARAH LAUGH?
Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’
14 Is anything too
hard for the LORD? I will return
about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
15 Sarah was afraid,
so she denied it, saying, “I DIDN’T LAUGH.” But the LORD said, “NO, YOU DID LAUGH.”
16 Then the men got
up from their meal and looked out toward Sodom. As they left, Abraham went with
them to send them on their way.
(NLT)
ISAAC - Genesis 26:6-11 – Isaac LIES; says
Rebekah is his sister
6 So ISAAC stayed in Gerar.
7 When the men who
lived there asked Isaac about his wife, REBEKAH, he said, “SHE IS MY
SISTER.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He
thought, “They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful.”
8 But sometime
later, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out his window and saw Isaac caressing
Rebekah.
9 Immediately,
Abimelech called for Isaac and exclaimed, “She is obviously your wife! WHY DID YOU SAY, ‘SHE IS MY SISTER’?”
“Because I WAS
AFRAID SOMEONE WOULD KILL ME to
get her from me,” Isaac replied.
10 How could you do
this to us?” Abimelech exclaimed. “One of my people might easily have taken YOUR WIFE AND SLEPT WITH HER, and you would have MADE US GUILTY OF GREAT SIN.”
11 Then Abimelech
issued a public proclamation: “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be
put to death!”
(NLT)
JACOB - Genesis
27:1-29 Jacob lies to his father Isaac for the blessing
1 One day when Isaac was OLD and
turning BLIND, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, “My
son.” “Yes, Father?” Esau replied.
2 I am an old man
now,” Isaac said, “and I don’t know when I may die.
3 Take your bow and
a quiver full of arrows, and go out into the open country to hunt some wild
game for me.
4 Prepare my
favorite dish, and bring it here for me to eat. Then I will PRONOUNCE THE BLESSING that belongs to you, my
firstborn son, before I die.”
5 But Rebekah
overheard what Isaac had said to his son Esau. So when Esau left to hunt for
the wild game,
6 she said to her
son Jacob, “Listen. I
OVERHEARD YOUR FATHER say
to Esau,
7 Bring me some
wild game and prepare me a delicious meal. Then I will bless you in the LORD’s presence before I die.’
8 Now, my son,
listen to me. Do
exactly as I tell you.
9 Go out to the
flocks, and bring me two fine young goats. I’ll use them to prepare your
father’s favorite dish.
10 Then take the
food to your father so he can eat it and bless you before he dies.”
11 But look,” Jacob
replied to Rebekah, “my brother, Esau, is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.
12 What if my
father touches me? He’ll see that I’m trying to trick him, and then he’ll curse
me instead of blessing me.”
13 But his mother
replied, “Then let the curse fall on me, my son! Just do what I tell you. Go
out and get the goats for me!”
14 So Jacob went
out and got the young goats for his mother. Rebekah took them and prepared a delicious
meal, just the way Isaac liked
it.
15 Then she took
Esau’s favorite clothes, which were there in the house, and gave them to her
younger son, Jacob.
16 She covered his
arms and the smooth part of his neck with the skin of the young goats.
17 Then she gave
Jacob the delicious meal, including freshly baked bread.
18 So Jacob took
the food to his father. “My father?” he said. “Yes, my son,” Isaac answered. “Who are
you—Esau or Jacob?”
LIE 1 - 19 Jacob
replied, “It’s
Esau, your firstborn son. I’ve done as you told me. Here is the wild
game. Now sit up and eat it so you can give me your blessing.”
20 Isaac asked, “How did you
find it so quickly, my son?”
LIE 2 - “The LORD your God put it in my path!”
Jacob replied.
21 Then Isaac said
to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you and make sure that you really are
Esau.”
22 So Jacob went
closer to his father, and Isaac touched him.
“The voice is
Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s,” Isaac said.
23 But he did not
recognize Jacob, because Jacob’s hands felt hairy just like Esau’s. So Isaac
prepared to bless Jacob.
24 But are you
really my son Esau?” he asked.
LIE 3 - “YES, I AM,”
Jacob
replied.
25 Then Isaac said,
“Now, my son, bring me the wild game. Let me eat it, and then I will give you
my blessing.” So Jacob took the food to his father, and Isaac ate it. He also
drank the wine that Jacob served him. Then Isaac said to Jacob,
26 “Please come a
little closer and kiss me, my son.”
27 So JACOB went over and
kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally
convinced, and
he BLESSED his son.
He said, “Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the LORD has blessed!
28 From the dew
of heaven and the richness of the earth, may God always give you abundant harvests of grain and bountiful new wine.
29 May many
nations become your servants, and may
they bow down to you. May you be the master over
your brothers, and may your mother’s sons
bow down to you. All who curse you will be cursed,
and all who bless you will be blessed.”
(NLT)
PROPHECY - Genesis 25:23
– The older Esau shall serve the younger Jacob
23 And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other,
THE OLDER SHALL SERVE THE
YOUNGER.”
(ESV)
PROPHECY - Malachi 1:2-3
– I love Jacob and have rejected Esau
2 I have always
loved you,” says the LORD. But you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?” And the LORD replies,
“This is how I showed my love for you: I LOVED YOUR ANCESTOR JACOB,
3 but I REJECTED HIS BROTHER, ESAU,
and devastated his hill country. I turned Esau’s inheritance into a desert for
jackals.”
(NLT)
More Bible Lies
PHARAOH, the king of Egypt was concerned that
the Hebrew people was getting too large and ordered the HEBREW MIDWIVES to kill all the
male babies as they were being born, but they feared God and disobeyed the
king. They let the male babies live and
said; the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, they are
more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in
time.” They told a WHITE LIE and this is the
only place in the
Book that I find that the lie pleased God,
as He blessed the midwives’ family with children. I so much more believe it was their honor and fear
of God that pleased God and not the lie.
The Book says we should obey God rather than man.
KING
HEROD spoke with some
Wise Men
about the birth of a new king. He was TROUBLED that this new
king would take his place and wanted to kill him,
but with a little SPIN, he told the Wise Men to find this new
king and tell him where he was so he too could come and worship him which was a bold face LIE,
but this would be expected from someone EVIL.
KING
SOLOMON had
two prostitutes come before him both claiming a child was theirs. King Solomon commanded a sword be brought to
him and then LIED
and said he was
going to cut the baby in half.
One woman agreed and the other said to let the baby live and to give it
to the other woman. Solomon gave the baby to the woman who
wanted it to live.
RAHAB was a known prostitute whose home was
built on the city wall. Out of fear and
respect of Israel’s God, she hid the two spies and LIED to the King about their
whereabouts. Rahab the prostitute LIED to save her life as well as the lives of her
family who gathered in her home. In my Belief System, I believe that she was actually a business woman
that sold flax that dried in massive bundles on her roof, she provided an Inn
of sorts as well as provided other services.
This was NOT a white LIE, it cost the lives of those in Jericho,
but saved her family; is this LIE acceptable, after all it was in a time of war?
WAS THE LIE ABOUT HER LIFE OR ISRAEL’S GOD?
MIDWIVES - Exodus
1:15-21 – Midwives lied to Pharaoh about babies
15 Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt,
gave this order to the
HEBREW
MIDWIVES,
Shiphrah and Puah:
16 When you help the Hebrew women
as they give birth, watch as they deliver. IF
THE BABY IS A BOY, KILL HIM; if it is a girl, let her live.”
17 But because
THE MIDWIVES
FEARED GOD,
they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.
18 So the king of
Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “
WHY
HAVE YOU ALLOWED THE BOYS TO LIVE?”
19 The Hebrew
women are not like the Egyptian
women,” the midwives replied. “THEY ARE MORE VIGOROUS
AND
HAVE THEIR BABIES SO QUICKLY THAT
WE
CANNOT GET THERE IN TIME.”
20 So GOD WAS GOOD to the
midwives,
and the
Israelites continued to multiply,
growing more and
more powerful.
21 And because the midwives
feared God,
He GAVE
THEM FAMILIES of their own.
(NLT)
Acts 5:29 - We must obey God rather than men
29 But Peter and the apostles
answered,
“WE MUST OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN.
(ESV)
HEROD
-
Matthew 2:3-13 – A little SPIN… I too may come & worship Him
3 When HEROD
THE KING heard
this, he WAS TROUBLED, and all
Jerusalem with him;
7 Then Herod
summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had
appeared.
8 And he sent them to Bethlehem,
saying, “Go
and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me
word, that
I TOO MAY COME AND WORSHIP HIM.”
13 Now when they
had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and
said, “Rise,
take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there
until I tell you, for
Herod is about to search for the child, TO DESTROY HIM.”
(ESV)
SOLOMON
-
1 Kings 3:16-27- Solomon lied saying cut the baby in half
16 Sometime later TWO PROSTITUTES came to the king to have an argument settled.
17 Please, my
lord,” one of them began, “this woman and I live in the same house. I gave
birth to a baby while she was with me in the house.
18 Three days later
this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the
house.
19 But her baby died
during the night when she rolled over on it.
20 Then she got up
in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep.
She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside
her.
21 And in the
morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more
closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t my son at all.”
22 Then the other
woman interrupted, “It certainly was your son, and the living child is mine.”
“No,” the first woman said, “the living child is mine, and the dead one is yours.”
And so they argued back and forth before the king.
23 Then the king
said, “Let’s get the facts straight. Both of you claim the living child is
yours, and each says that the dead one belongs to the other.
24 All right, BRING ME A SWORD.”
So a sword was brought to the king. Then he said,
25 “CUT THE LIVING CHILD IN TWO, AND GIVE HALF TO ONE
WOMAN AND HALF TO THE OTHER!”
26 Then
the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very
much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord!
Give her the child—please do not
kill him!”
But
the other woman said,
“All right, he will
be neither yours nor mine;
divide him between us!”
27 Then
the king said, “
DO NOT KILL THE CHILD,
but
give him to the woman who
wants him to live,
for she is his mother!”
(NLT)
RAHAB - Joshua 2:1-16
– Rahab lied saved her family before the invasion
1 Then Joshua
secretly sent out two spies from the Israelite camp at Acacia Grove. He
instructed them, “Scout out the land on the other side of the Jordan River,
especially around Jericho.” So the two men set out and came to the house of a PROSTITUTE NAMED RAHAB and stayed there that night.
3 So the king of Jericho sent
orders to Rahab:
“Bring out the
men who have come into your house,
for they have come here to spy out
the whole land.”
4 Rahab
had hidden the two men, but she replied, “
YES, THE MEN WERE HERE EARLIER,
BUT I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE THEY WERE FROM.
8 Before the spies
went to sleep that night, Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them.
9 I know the LORD
has given you this land,” she told them.
“We are all afraid of you. Everyone in the land is living
in terror.
15 Then, since Rahab’s house was
built into the town wall,
she
let them down by a rope through the window.
16 Escape to the hill country,” she
told them. “Hide there for three days from the men searching for you. Then,
when they have returned, you can go on your way.”
(NLT)
Even more
lies
The internet has made these studies
possible worldwide where Bibles are not available. In an effort to save space, I will just give
the story, but not print the scriptures. I will give the verse in the footnotes so you
can look them up; try to obtain a New Living
Translation Bible for easy reading if you can.
MOSES was TOLD BY GOD to go to Pharaoh and
tell him to “LET HIS PEOPLE GO” to take a three day journey into the wilderness to make a
sacrifice to their Lord God, but what God intended to do was to take His people completely out of Egypt forever. Was this a HALF
TRUTH, since they did sacrifice when they crossed the Red
Sea? [1]
SAMUEL was TOLD BY GOD to take a flask filled with oil and go to
Jesse of Bethlehem and anoint one of his sons to take Saul’s place as the new
king. Samuel protested and
said King Saul would kill him if he knew what he was going to do. THEN GOD SAID, take a heifer of the
herd in your hand with you and say, I have come to
sacrifice to the Lord and invite Jesse to the Sacrifice, then
anoint the one I have chosen. (David) [2]
SIMON AND LEVI of the Levitical priesthood,
had a sister named Diana that was defiled by Shechem a Prince of Canaan. Shechem then wanted to marry Diana, and Simon
and Levi said SURE, but only after
every man around them was circumcised. Then they would allow their daughters to
marry them. But they LIED; after three days while their wounds were still sore, they entered the
town and with swords killed them all.[3]
JACOB’S
TEN SONS by Bilhah and Zilpah
were jealous of their brother Joseph who
was then the only son of Rachel and was the
favorite. The boys took him and
threw him into a pit and eventually sold him to
some Medianite traders. Then
they took his tunic of many colors and put goat’s blood on it and brought it to
their father and LIED by saying; we have found this. Do you know
whether it is your son’s coat or not and
Jacob knew the coat of many colors and said Yes, an evil beast has eaten my
son; he was devastated. [4]
DAVID was running for his life from King Saul and he LIED to Ahimelech, the Priest of Israel and told him
that the King had commanded him to do something in
secret and no man was to know about the business. David asked the priest for some bread, but
there was none except the “Bread of the Presence”
also called “Show Bread” that was
unlawful for David to eat; it was set hot before the Lord daily. Because of the lie,
David was able to talk the Priest into giving him the Holy Bread to eat.[5]
DAVID was on the run from
Saul and wound up confronted by Achish
the King of Gath who he thought would kill him because he had
heard the songs that were sung of him slaying ten thousands of his
enemies. So David overhearing what they
said changed his behavior and PRETENDED to be a nut case, a madman, he
crawled around marking on the doors and gates and let spit run down his beard
so they would think that he was a fool
and of no threat to them and then would provide him shelter; a hideout from
King Saul.[6]
DAVID and his 600 men were given the territory of Ziklag
by King Achish outside the royal city where for a year and four months he SECRETELY made raids on the Philistines, the Geshurites, Gezrites and the
Amalekites; KILLING
everyone with no one left alive to tell what had
happened, taking the spoils of sheep, oxen, asses, camels and clothing for his
men. King
Achish asked David where he had
made his raids today and David LIED and said, he
had made raids against the Israelites in Judah and
against the Jerahmeelites and Kenites. This
Lie made King Achish believe that David
had made himself hated among the people of Israel and now David had become his
servant forever. [7]
JEHU, KING OF ISRAEL gathered the people together and said he
wanted to call a solemn feast before Baal and make a great sacrifice
and sent for all the prophets and priest of Baal to attend; the house of Baal
filled up from one end to the other. But
Jehu LIED and told 80 men to not
let anyone come out alive; KILL them all and burn
the images of Baal; tear down the
house of Baal and make it into a SEWER place.[8]
JEREMIAH THE PROPHET had been in a conversation with King
Zedekiah and was told; let no man
know of these words and you will not die. You shall LIE and say “I presented my cry before the king
that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house to die there”. Jeremiah lied
and they stopped questioning him and the matter with the king was not made
known. His life was spared and he stayed
in the prison court.[9]
PAUL the APOSTLE said he did not
burden anyone, but nevertheless, being crafty, he caught men with GUILE which is cunning artful
deceit, it is fraud, duplicity and dishonesty. He said that he became whatever men wanted him
to be for the Gospel’s sake.[10]
The Book on Lies
We are not bound to reveal truth to someone who
does not have the right to know it.[11] Confidential information given under the seal
of secrecy must be kept confidential unless it would cause very grave harm to
come to the one who has confided it or where by divulging it; grave harm can be
avoided to a third party. Can stretching the
truth or telling a little white lie be so bad? Most of the time we are just being diplomatic
and tactful, trying not to hurt someone else’s feelings. Sometimes we just omit
something when answering a question so that we will not look bad. There is a church term called “EVANGELISTICALLY SPEAKING” when a pastor
may exaggerating attendance or say MANY joined the
church when actually there was only two. We certainly don’t see these white lies as bad
as something like murder.
We are accountable to God for our lies.[12] The Book gives us an example with Ananias
who, with his wife, Sapphira, sold some property and brought part
of the money to the apostles, claiming it was the FULL AMOUNT and with his
wife’s consent, they kept the rest. They
could have done whatever they wanted to with the money, but THEY LIED TO THE DISCIPLES IN CHURCH
and said it was the full amount of money.
They both
died immediately IN CHURCH,
but got a free burial.[13]
The Book says to not deceive, that God
detest lying lips and there is doom on the horizon who lies to do evil,[14]
but that does not seem to be the case when we lie to do a good thing, to save
lives and keep the peace. Ponder this; if a MUSLIM TERRORIST told everybody that was a Christian to
stand up that he was going to shoot them, what would you do? SELAH Ponder your
answer as you read on.
Matthew 10:33 – Deny me on earth; I will
deny before God
33 But everyone who
denies me here on earth,
I WILL ALSO DENY BEFORE MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.
(NLT)
The Take Away
Satan speaks PARTIAL TRUTHS to do EVIL and it started in the Garden of Eden, “You
will be like God and know good from
evil”;[15]
this has become the example for man, partial lies.
The Book records GOD SENDING LYING SPIRITS into the mouths of
Ahab’s prophets in order for His plan to prevail,[16]
but scripture says God does not lie. What we see as a Spirit of Lies, God
sees as a Spirit of righteousness. A lie isn’t a lie so much as in the ACT, but as in the MOTIVE of the heart.[17]
Godly people withhold truth not to do evil,
BUT TO
AVOID EVIL,
this is when in a lie, good comes from evil.
When we see is actors getting ahead of
God, trying to help Him; sometimes that help brings on consequences, not from
God, but from the situation it caused.
(Example; Ishmael gave us the Muslims and Isaac gave
us the Jews)
Lying is not in the letter of the law, it’s in the MOTIVE.[18]
As man sees it, according to the Letter of the Law GOD DOES LIE, but He does not lie according
to the Spirit of the Law; in motive,
nor should we. We need to study the Book to
learn the wisdom of God’s ways and HIS perspective.
We must understand what a lie is and not discount
the value of a lie when it is done for good.
Do not judge about appearances; this is about righteousness, we are not
bound by the letter of the law.
The Book says God PROMISED us before the world begin that we would have eternal life and that to the
BELIEVER, He cannot lie; not He WILL not lie, but He CANNOT lie.[19]
The
Satan Editorial
A word about Satan, Lucifer, the Devil. God is Omnipresent[20];
everywhere at once, Omniscient;[21]
all knowing and Omnipotent;[22]
all powerful. Satan is none of those things;
he cannot be but in one place at a time, has limited power and he only knows what
he sees and hears and cannot read your mind.
Jesus said there were things that the Son
of God did not know, things that only the father knows, if there are things
that Jesus did not know, how can you believe that Satan who is only a lowly created
angel could know everything you think?.
Satan is not opposite and equal to
God nor His Son, he is not even in the God class, nor that of God’s Son; God
said all things were created by Jesus who created Satan as
an angel; Satan is just a dog on a leash, going only as far as the LIMITED FREE WILL of his master’s leash will allow him to go.[23]
Mark
13:32 – There are some things the Son of God does not know
32 However,
no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, NOT EVEN THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN OR
THE SON HIMSELF. Only the Father knows.
(NLT)
[1] Exodus 3:18 - Please let us take a three-day journey into the
wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD, our God
[2] 1 Samuel 16:1 - Fill your flask with olive oil and go to
Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of
his sons to be my king
[3] Genesis 34:13 - Since Shechem had defiled their sister, Dinah,
Jacob’s sons responded deceitfully to Shechem
[4] Genesis 37:23-24 - Joseph’s brothers ripped off the beautiful robe
he was wearing, grabbed him and threw him into the cistern
[5] 1 Samuel 21:1-2 - Ahimelech asked. “Why
is no one with you?” David said.
“He told me not to tell anyone why I am here. I have told my men where to meet
me later.
[6] 1 Samuel 21:10-15 - David went to King Achish of Gath and pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and
drooling down his beard
[7] 1 Samuel 27:1-12 – David’s 600 men raided the Geshurites,
Girzites, and Amalekites; No one was left alive to tell
where he had been.
[8] 2 Kings 10:18-29 - Jehu called a meeting; “Be sure that only those
who worship Baal wears one of these robes.” “Go in and
kill all of them with a robe. Don’t let a single one escape
[9] Jeremiah 38:24-26 – Lie to them; tell them you begged me not to
[10] 1 Corinthians 9:22 – I have become all
things to all people so that by all possible
means I might save some
[11] Proverbs 25:9-10 - Do not reveal another’s secret
[12] Romans 3:13 - Their throat is an open grave; THEY USE THEIR
TONGUES TO DECEIVE.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips -- Romans 1:25-28 - We have EXCHANGED
THE TRUTH about
God FOR A LIE and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, -- 1 John 2:16 – Lies that benefit YOU is pride
and selfishness -- John 8:44 - Our
father is Satan who is a
liar and the FATHER OF LIES
there is no truth in him
[13] Acts 5:1-10 – Don’t test God with a lie; Ananias and Sapphira LIED
TO THE HOLY SPIRIT and FELL TO THE
FLOOR DEAD
[14] Romans 1:18 – The wrath of God is against the SPIN; those who SUPPRESS THE
TRUTH -- Isaiah
5:18 – Doom to you who use LIES to sell evil -- Leviticus 19:11 – Do not deceive or
cheat one another -- Matthew
5:37 – Let what you say be
simply ‘YES’ OR ‘NO’; anything
more than this comes from EVIL -- Proverbs 12:22 – God detest lies
[15] Genesis 3:5 – YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD, KNOWING BOTH
GOOD AND EVIL
[16] 1 Kings 22:19-23 – THE LORD HAS PUT A LYING SPIRIT IN THE MOUTHS OF ALL YOUR
PROPHETS. For the LORD has
pronounced your doom
[17] Romans 2:29 – It’s not the letter of the Law, but the Spirit of the Law;
a true Believer is one whose heart is right with
God
[18] Romans 7:6 – We have been released from the letter of the law so
that we may SERVE IN THE NEW WAY OF THE SPIRIT
[19] Titus 1:2 – It’s NOT God “will not”, but God “cannot”
lie
[20] OMNIPRESET
- Acts 7:48-49 – 1 Kings 8:27 – 2 Chronicals 2:6 – Psalms 139:3 – Genesis 28:16
[21] OMNISCIENT – Job 12:13 – Genesis
16:13 – 1 Samuel 16:7 – 2 Kings 19:27 – Psalms 119:168 – 1 Chronicals 29:9 –
Psalms 44:21 – Psalms 103:14 – Job 28:10 – Psalms147:4 – Job 26:6
[22] OMNIPOTENT
– Genesis 18:14 – Job 42:2 – Matthew 19:26 – Revelation 19:6
[23] Job 2:6 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold,
he is in thine hand; but don’t touch his life.
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