Friday, November 17, 2023

Lie Not

    Bible Reading:  Colossians 3:1-11

    Key Verse: Verse 9 - “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”

    Key Words: Lie not one to another

    A little child was asked to give a Scriptural application in regard to lying.  Here is their answer “a lie is an abomination to the Lord, but a very present help in a time of trouble.”
It's a proven fact that humans do frequently lie to one another.  

    Professor Jeff Hancock asked 30 subjects to keep a communications diary for a week and made them fess up to how often they fibbed during the course of their interactions, be they in person, on the phone, via e-mail or instant message. (Earlier research found that people lie in about a quarter of their daily interactions.) What Hancock discovered was that lies made up a whopping 37 per cent of phone conversations and 27 per cent of face-to-face interactions, whereas the computer-assisted technologies kept people more honest. Lies made up only 21 per cent of instant messaging and just 14 per cent of e-mails. Hancock believes that because e-mails leave a record, many would avoid including lies in them. 

    People lie because they really don't believe they will be caught.  “Don't we all.”
 
                                                                                                   
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do: 
Remember, he who is given to white lies soon becomes color blind.

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