{"id":5051,"date":"2021-07-01T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","slug":"the-bible-on-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"THE BIBLE ON LYING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe it&#8217;s a result of our truth bias &#8211; that we just don&#8217;t notice the lies around us. Maybe it&#8217;s our tendency to minimize our own sins. But it seems to me that we underestimate the gravity of lying as a sin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible has some serious, serious warnings against lying found throughout both the Old and New Testaments. God does not take lying lightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proverbs 6:16-19 well represents God&#8217;s attitude towards lies as well as some of the other sinful behaviors He associates with lying:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<span style=\"background-color: white\">There are six things that the\u00a0<span class=\"sc\" style=\"background-color: white\">Lord<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white\">\u00a0hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lying is &#8220;an abomination&#8221; in God&#8217;s eyes! It is a behavior He HATES. I am not sure Scripture could put it any more sternly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to disabuse ourselves of the notion that lying is no big deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a result of our truth bias &#8211; that we just don&#8217;t notice the lies around us. Maybe it&#8217;s our tendency to minimize our own sins. But it seems to me that we underestimate the gravity of lying as a sin.\u00a0 The Bible has some serious, serious warnings against lying found throughout both the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}