As we have been exploring the ethical issue of lying I have tried to cover the subject from a biblical perspective which states that God first and foremost hates lying. Why? Because at its core lying is about deception and harm. In part four I started to unpack different people from scripture that lied, and it would seem did not suffer for it.

In these articles on the subject of lying we have attempted to understand the why and the why not of telling the truth all the time. Making a hard law out of something the scripture does not teach is wrong but many times we try to justify a truth that seems right to us without really investigating the “Whole Truth” of God’s Word. Take, for example, the law of God about committing adultery. The pharisees who wanted to trap Jesus used the law of God against him so they brought a woman caught in the act of adultery to be judged by him. They thought they had him over a barrel where he would have to uphold the law and agree to stone the woman or show mercy and prove he was a law breaker. Jesus turned the tables on them and exposed their hypocrisy! If you haven’t read the first three articles please do so before reading this one or it will not make sense.

We have been looking at the topic of lying and whether as Christians we have become comfortable with others, and ourselves, telling lies.  One thing to consider is how our background shapes a lot of our morals and that is why the apostle Paul instructed the believer not to be conformed to the way the world thinks or its pattern of thinking but to be changed in how we think guided by the word of God. (Romans 12:2) If you haven’t read the first two articles with this title please do so first before proceeding with this article. They are linked together so if you miss one article in this series there will be holes in the reasoning behind my argument.