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Originally Posted by ColdSilverMoon  1. The means don't justify the end. Nowhere in the Bible, at least to my knowledge, are we given a pass to break one commandment for a "greater good," and a perceived greater good at that. God never says we ignore one commandment for the sake of a more important one. This concept is completely foreign to Scripture. The only thing that even comes close is Jesus "breaking" the Sabbath laws, but even then He held a very high regard for the Sabbath, and wasn't breaking it so much as fulfilling it. And the examples Blueridge Baptist gave were taken way out of context, especially the 1 Kings verses, which were referring to false prophets whose lying spirits were actually sent from Satan, not from God. So, a sin is always a sin, regardless of our intent and to what end it strives to accomplish. Lying is sinful. The Bible gives no qualifiers. |
Are you kidding me? The fact that you can sit there and seriously reiterate that the Bible gives "no qualifiers" despite the fact that several people have pointed to multiple verses and examples that DO SEEM TO QUALIFY what constitues lying... and you still sit there saying "the Bible gives no qualifiers..." Ok... There are people who still think that the moon landing was staged in Hollywood. Whatever.
Perhaps the real issue here is that you won't allow repeated examples from within Scripture to influence what you believe Scripture is teaching in its precepts.