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To: restornu
Well if looks like you lie to make something else look like a lie...

Nope, just repeating what your own leaders have taught. Like I posted Here

A nice excerpt for you:

Gospel Teachings About Lying from Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a fireside address given to faculty, students, and alumni of BYU on September 12, 1993. He goes on to give a great treatise on the sinfulness of lying then towards the end does a 180 and claims the following:

“In contrast to the obligation to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, the obligation to “tell the whole truth” is subject to an important qualification…..”

“Whether a speaker is morally or legally obliged to speak ‘the whole truth’ is therefore determined by the extent of the speaker's duty to disclose……”

“In the matter of lying, the essential question is not whether we have a duty to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. We clearly have that duty. We must not lie. I know of no category of justified lies.”

“The difficult question is whether we are morally responsible to tell the whole truth. When we have a duty to disclose, we are morally responsible to do so. Where there is no duty to disclose, we have two alternatives. We may be free to disclose if we choose to do so, but there will be circumstances where commandments, covenants, or professional obligations require us to remain silent.”

A half-truth is still a lie....and lies don't come from God...if you are being taught to lie for your faith, the author of your faith is not God.

1,740 posted on 04/09/2008 12:40:14 PM PDT by conservativegramma
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To: conservativegramma; DelphiUser

There was no lying or half truth inplied there.

You like to go off on tangents which are distractions and have nothing to do with salvation


1,745 posted on 04/09/2008 12:52:24 PM PDT by restornu (Man inhumanity to man)
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To: fproy2222
Ping, here's your real source of half-truth lying, 'fred'. Your religion teaches the practice but they claim it is not lying??????
1,765 posted on 04/09/2008 1:58:00 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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