Questions tagged [lying]
Purposefully communicating falsehoods
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Can Catholics participate in a regime or administration that lies to protect its people?
An article in Slate describe "Noble Lies" as:
When experts or agencies deliver information to the public that they consider possibly or definitively false to further a larger, often well-...
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When is it morally acceptable to lie? [closed]
Lying is a sin. It is a violation of one of the Ten Commandments, and a disobeying of God.
However, there are many instances in the Bible where someone may lie (usually to protect someone), and God ...
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Is sharing "Fake News" and gossiping "Fake News" a mortal sin? (Catholic perspective)
In light of the current media trend of reporting and resorting to fake news and gossiping, and some netizens are somehow careless in becoming an instruments to spread it.
Some social media users ...
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Lies of the Desert Fathers
Reading The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, I came across at least two accounts of the Fathers lying to or deceiving people
10 . Once a provincial judge heard of Abba Moses and went to Scete to see
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Why was Abraham better able to protect Sarah from Abimelech as her brother than as her husband?
As recorded in Genesis 12 & 20:
Abraham was afraid that Abimelech would kill him and take his Sarah from him if the king knew that they were married, so he said she was his sister instead. How ...
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Did Jesus change his mind in John 7? [duplicate]
John 7:8–10 reads:
8 “You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” 9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee. 10 But after his brothers had gone ...
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Did Rahab sin by hiding the Hebrew spies and lying to the leaders of Jericho? (Catholic/Protestant overview)
In Joshua 2 we have a classic case of civil disobedience:
3 Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to ...
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Did the midwives in Exodus 1 sin by disobeying and lying to Pharaoh? (Catholic/Protestant overview)
In Exodus 1:15–16, the king of Egypt orders the Hebrew midwives to kill the sons born to Hebrew women. However, they do not obey:
But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt ...
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Is there a verse about "big" and "small" lies being the same in God's kingdom? [closed]
I am looking for a certain verse or passage.
The one I'm looking for contains statements about there being no such thing as a "small" lie or "big" lie and that lies are all the same in God's kingdom.
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Why is it not a sin when God asked Moses to lie to Pharaoh?
And how does this expand on our conception of what is sin?
(Exodus 3:18) ...and you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the
Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’
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According to Catholicism, does the eighth commandment (Do not bear false witness) obligate us to always tell the truth?
According to Catholic Teaching, does the eighth commandment
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
obligate us to always tell the truth?
Are there times when we are under no ...
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Is there an instance of parents lying to their children that was approved by God in the Bible?
Is there any instance in the Bible in which:
Parents lied to children, and
God approved of it?
There is an instance in 1 Kings 22:22 in which the Lord is said to put a lying spirit in the mouths of ...
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Why does Paul not include murderers (or liars) in First Corinthians 6?
1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (KJV)
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers ...
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