A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics

en the truth and a lie. All other lines of distinction, such even as those which separate good from evil, light from darkness, purity from imp

od as God, unless we conceive of him as the true God, and the God of truth. If there be any falsity in him, he is not the true God. Truth is of

. Hence he who lies takes a stand, by that very act, in opposition to God. Therefore if it be necessary at any ti

r, therefore, be the temptation to lie, it is a temptation to sin by lying. Whatever be the seeming gain to result from a lie, it is the

t as to its correctness. The feeling is general that a man who believes in God will not lie unto God under the solemnity of an oath. If, however, it were possible for God to approve a lie on the part of one of his children, then that child of God might confidently make solemn oath to the truth of his lie, appealing to Go

g or offending one's neighbor, or even if it were possible to benefit one's fellow-man by a lie, no man could ever tell a lie, under any circumstances or for any purpose whatsoever, without doing harm to his own nature, and offending against God's very being. If a lie comes out of a man on any inducement or p

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burden of evil that weighs down society, and that tends to its disintegration and ruin. The bond of society is confidence. A lie is inconsistent with confidence; and the knowledge that a lie is, under certain circumstances, deemed proper by a man, throws do

longing of the community is for such confidence of men in one another as will give them assurance that they will not lie one to another. There was never

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