The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Lying

None of the people in the examples you gave were commended for their lying, but their "acts of faith". Rahab sinned when she lied; plain and simple. Because of the weakness of our flesh and the remaining indwelling sin, Christians will lie given the right circumstances. But, being vulnerable to temptation doesn't excuse us or abrogate the Ninth Commandment, unless you are an Antinomian of course, then you don't have to worry about any of those moral laws! . But for those of us who hold to objective, "true truth", and who are called to be analogs of God, in Whom there is no falsehood, we are obligated to tell the truth in all situations.

In His Grace,