{"id":9832,"date":"2021-07-13T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","slug":"balance-false-denial-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9832","title":{"rendered":"BALANCE: FALSE DENIAL IN THE BIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An addendum to my points about key false allegations in the Bible and the way Jesus and Paul both fell victim of false charges:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was making the point that we have a hard time believing the innocence of a person who is forced into a position of denying any sort of allegation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, though, there are many times when we are right to not believe a denial and Scripture relates at least one high profile false denial. Curiously enough, it happens simultaneous to the false allegations against Christ. And it happens three times.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, I am referencing Peter&#8217;s famous denial of association with Christ on the night of Jesus&#8217;s arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notice that each time Peter is accused of being with Jesus, he grows more adamant in his refusal. By the third time, he even &#8220;called down curses upon himself and he swore to them, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know the man!'&#8221; (Matt 26:74)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confronted with an unpleasant truth and backed into a corner, a human being WILL fluently and convincingly lie to protect himself or herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter wept bitterly when he recognized his failing before God. In my experience, though, most people simply will not back down from a lie, once told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An addendum to my points about key false allegations in the Bible and the way Jesus and Paul both fell victim of false charges: I was making the point that we have a hard time believing the innocence of a person who is forced into a position of denying any sort of allegation.\u00a0 Obviously, though, [&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-9832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832","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=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9833,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/9833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}