{"id":1574,"date":"2010-07-18T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T11:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:16","slug":"lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse from Colossians 3:9\u00a0and the final mention of <em><strong>the sins\u00a0in good standing<\/strong><\/em>. The last one he brings up is worded,<em><strong>\u00a0lie not to one another<\/strong><\/em>. The word\u00a0lie is any misrepresentation of the truth. The\u00a0tone of voice,\u00a0a hand\u00a0gesture or facial expression can\u00a0give way to making what is said a lie. One said,<em><strong> half a fact is a whole lie<\/strong><\/em>. I cannot tell you how many preachers I have had misrepresent the truth to\u00a0me in just the past year. When I let a half-truth out of my mouth the Holy Ghost strikes my heart. Paul says we cannot lie because<em><strong> we have put off the old man<\/strong><\/em>. The phrase put\u00a0off means to strip away violently. Let us not be easy-going with lying. It is the work of Satan, for\u00a0he is the father of all lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse from Colossians 3:9\u00a0and the final mention of the sins\u00a0in good standing. The last one he brings up is worded,\u00a0lie not to one another. The word\u00a0lie is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}