do us a favour prophesy.... tell us a bit about yourself to convince us of your identity and integrity, because you come across as a wacko

What a ignorant stupid statement.. EVERYBODY LIES.. and everybody should... the truth often hurts much more then lies... if you are willing to inflict emotional pain just because your selfish enough not to want to lie because of some notion that you cannot enter heaven for lieing, then what retarded God woul asuch a person enter to heaven.. ?

It is morally justifiable to lie sometimes. Theres a really famous example used by ethical philosophers when trying to examine whether lying is permissible morally.

Its during WWII and you are a farmer chilling in your house when you get a knock at the door. There is a group of jews at your door seeking shelter for a night before they move on in the morning. You agree but a little later some Nazis show up. They ask you if you've seen some Jews that escaped one of the camps. They don't suspect you at all of harbouring them and are simply going house to house asking if anyone has seen them.

If you lie (and say you havent seen them), you save the lives of the people you hid in your house, if you tell the truth, "why yes nazi dude, i have them hidden in my house" then they will all die. Even if you hate liars and lieing (most people do,) I don't think many people would hesitate for even a moment to lie to the nazis. because on practical terms telling the truth in that situation is riduculous.

I think that what needs to be understood is that "sticking to the letter of the law" is ridiculous and counter-productive to faith AND SCRIPTURE. sticking to the letter of the law creates religious fanatics and is historically closely related (in biblical times) to the sadducees and early zealots. i think in this, and similar situations God whould understand and not be a douche about it.

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I'm just here for the omnipresent super-galactic one-ness. And the bitches.

When i read anything along the lines of "the scriptures say" a big iron curtain comes down preventing me from listening to anything you have to say making it very difficult to take anything you say seriously.

If you argued on moral grounds of wanting to cause no harm to others and used some logic you would get further in trying to get a message across. But saying liars go to hell and spill like that makes me laugh, especially as the organisation behind the book you quote from is one of the biggest liars on the face of the planet.

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