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index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ As the moral climate of our society has been deteriorating, lying and deceit have become major problems.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lawyers have increased in numbers over the last decade, mainly because of irresponsibility and broken contracts among men due to lying and deceit.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ The Lord has put on my heart the past few weeks a desire to learn more about the subject of lying and deceit.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ In the brief time I have studied it I have discovered that there have been volumes of material written on the subject of lying, not to mention the ethics and moral issues regarding lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ So, if a lying tongue is something that is an abomination to our LORD, then would it not behoove us to understand what constitutes a lie?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Augustine, Aquinas, and many early church fathers defined lying as a statement at variance with the mind.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ In discussing the ethics of lying they found it helpful to make a distinction between (1) injurious, or hurtful, (2) officious, and (3) jocose lies.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Perhaps it would be helpful to compare the malice in lying with the malice in hypocrisy.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ It is certainly true that if we knowingly tell someone that we are going to do something while at the same time knowing that we have no intentions of following through on our promise or commitment, then, we are guilty of lying - there was intent to deceive that person.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ We do understand there are legitimate reasons that make it impossible at times to keep our word and in those circumstances we are not guilty of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ None of us likes being falsely accused of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ The one principle of truth that I have tried to demonstrate tonight, is that lying must always involve malice (the desire to harm others).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ As Christians we need to ask the Lord to forgive us if we are guilty of lying or deceit.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Most of the time I would just forgive these lying offences and would just pray for them and try to "live peaceably with all men." However, in prayer, the Lord spoke to my heart that I must go one step further and "speak the truth in love" to my brothers and sisters if I truly loved them.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying is not only speaking an untruth; another form of lying is not keeping our word to others.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ If Christ is Truth, then it follows that lying is moving away from Christ.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Are some personalities more prone to lying than other personalities?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Do exaggeration, embellishment, inflation of figures qualify as lying?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Are there degrees of lying?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Does the end ever justify the means of lying?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ The fact is, apart from divine revelation it cannot be proved that lying is wrong.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Atheists certainly do not, and cannot (consistent with their philosophy) condemn lying as an evil that is universally wrong.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ A liar is a person who is lying, who has previously lied, or who tends by nature to lie repeatedly - even when not necessary.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying is typically used to refer to deceptions in oral or written communication.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ o 1.1.11 Lying by obsolete signage
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ o 1.1.12 Lying by omission
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ o 1.1.13 Lying in trade
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ o 1.1.14 Lying through your teeth
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ For instance, a gambler who deceives other players into thinking he has different cards to those he really holds, or an athlete who hints he will move left and then dodges right is not considered to be lying (also known as a feint or juke).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Economical with the truth is popularly used as a euphemism for deceit, whether by volunteering false information (i.e., lying) or by deliberately holding back relevant facts.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ The Crick Crack Club in London organise a yearly 'Grand Lying Contest' with the winner being awarded the coveted "Hodja Cup" (named for the Mulla kjv@Nasreddin: "The truth is something I have never spoken.").
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ This also may be an expression describing the act of lying with a smile or other patronizing tone or body language.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law, or in any of various sworn statements in writing.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ A common version of a white lie is to tell only part of the truth, therefore not be suspected of lying, yet also conceal something else, in order to avoid awkward questions.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Augustine of Hippo wrote two books about lying: On Lying (De Mendacio) and Against Lying (Contra Mendacio).^2 He describes each book in his later work, Retractions.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lies told for the pleasure of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ When children first learn how lying works, they lack the moral understanding of when to refrain from doing it.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Pseudologia fantastica is a term applied by psychiatrists to the behaviour of habitual or compulsive lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Mythomania is the condition where there is an excessive or abnormal propensity for lying and exaggerating.^8
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ A recent study found that lying takes longer than telling the truth.^9 Or, as Chief Joseph succinctly put it, "It does not require many words to speak the truth." ^10
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying is a perversion of the natural faculty of speech, the natural end of which is to communicate the thoughts of the speaker.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Delilah repeatedly accused Samson of lying to her (Jg.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Within any scenario where dualistic (e.g., yes/no, black/white) answers are always given, a person who we know is consistently lying would paradoxically be a source of truth.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Spikes in stress are purported to indicate lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ A recent study found that lying takes longer than telling the truth, and thus the time to answer a question may be used as a method of lie detection.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ In Human, All Too Human, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suggested that those who refrain from lying may do so only because of the difficulty involved in maintaining the lie.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying Without the Intent to Deceive".
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ It seems that many try to balance the risk of being caught in a lie against the benefits of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Do you feel you could put away (stop) lying?
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ To fully appreciate the Ninth Commandment, with its prohibition of lying, we must realize how important truth is to God.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ The way some have attempted to use the Bible in order to justify lying
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Unfortunately, in the on-line debate about lying, many persons regularly cited difficult passages of Sacred Scripture in order to claim that lying is not always wrong.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying is a sin but in the context of saving one's life while not endangering the recipient of the lie has to be taken into consideration.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Habitual lying and lying for you own gain is different from lying to save another's life.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Of all the sins that man may commit, lying is perhaps the most destructive.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Such was forbidden by Jesus and by implication, lying as well.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Let us do so and be people who love truth regardless the consequences of speaking it and let us never be involved in the sin of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ For example, hypocrisy is a form of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ : Some feel lying is an ART form to be developed
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Similarly, the commandment that explicitly forbids a grave type of lying: lying under oath `against' your neighbor, a mortal sin due to the gravity of perjury and of causing grave harm to your neighbor, also implicitly forbids all lying, even when the act is only a venial sin.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ That is why the type of lying condemned in the ten commandments is of the grave type, bearing false witness `against' someone, and not the more common venial lie.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Leviticus condemns lying and perjury under oath; therefore, the broad interpretation of the eighth commandment is correct.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Scripture not only condemns perjury, but also lying in general.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ The same verse that forbids lying, also forbids deceiving.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying and deceiving are separate sins.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Scripture condemns the intention to deceive and the act of lying, regardless of whether those disorders occur one or another by itself, or both together.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ If lying were only immoral sometimes, those who are just would not detest lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ For the practice of lying, that is to say, the intentional choice of the act itself, is contrary to goodness.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Justice is perpetual and immortal, therefore, lying is not justified at any time, nor in any place.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ In other words, to intentionally-choose to assert a falsehood is always a sin; it is the sin of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ If lying were sometimes moral, and other times immoral, it would not be fitting for Jesus to call the devil: `father of lies'.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ {4:25} Because of this, setting aside lying, speak the truth, each one with his neighbor.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Again, this passage condemns lying, exhorting all humanity to speak the truth with one another, without any discussion of intention or circumstances.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ They could have avoided torture and death by lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ They could also have used an exaggerated (claimed) mental reservation, which in truth is just a clever form of lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ For lying offends God, whereas accepting suffering and death in order to avoid any sin does not offend God, but rather pleases Him greatly.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Teaching a distorted concept of mental reservation in order to justify lying is always a sin.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Plus, my case is only made stronger by telling the truth-- I gain nothing by lying, and would set myself up for a great defeat should my lie be discovered.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying is practiced freely, without a thought to whether or not it is moral.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Jacob sustains the reputation of the family for lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Astute Bible students and critics have noticed a passage in which the prophet Micaiah described a vision in which it appears God not only condoned lying, but promoted it:
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ One, simple selfishness leads to lying by criminals to commit fraud.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Satan uses his supernatural "lying wonders and signs" to trap men into following him, while the Lord uses His miracles to lead men in a righteous path to follow Him.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ You must not cooperate with evil people by lying on the witness stands.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ o But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don't cover up the truth with boasting and lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ If a person will lie, and if a person develops a pattern of lying, if a person is comfortable with lying, that person will fall to any temptation.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ The worst thing that can be said about a person is that they are a habitual, inveterate liar, because a person who is adept at lying, and who has run roughshod over conscience, and no longer feels the shame and remorse that normal people feel about lying, someone who has developed such a skill as a liar, the worst thing about that is that their ability to cover up things makes them vulnerable to every temptation.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ In my opinion, a definition of lying must include some sort of "motivation clause" or something.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ I don't think decepetion necessarily requires lying .
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Lying is transgressing the truth to hide something true or use it as deceit.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Withholding the truth to keep something secret is not lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ It's not always malicious lying, but it's still not good and shouldn't be excused because the problem often gets worse.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ A courtesy generally given in relationships is called, "the benefit of the doubt." When a child has developed a pattern of lying we don't automatically give that courtesy.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ A child may be hurt by this, but that hurt is the natural consequence of mistrust which in turn comes from lying.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyLying @ Another form of lying takes place among "professing Christians." You may say, "God told me to tell you this"; yet what you say contradicts the Bible.