No.
Dear P-Marlowe,
"No."
Yikes! Well, you really should stop!! ;-)
The problem here, P-Marlowe, is that if I'd asked the question, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" to actually elicit information from you, rather than as a rhetorical device, limiting you to "yes" or "no" would have been grossly unfair. And deceitful.
If folks here didn't realize that I was asking the question to make a point, not because I actually suspect someone of beating his wife, then if I were able to limit my interlocutor to "yes" or "no," his truthful reply ("no," because one can't stop what one never started) would leave the false and terrible impression that he was [still] beating his wife.
That's because of the assumption smuggled into the question that he was beating his wife in the first place.
If I were acting in charity and asking this question, I could only ask it of someone if I already believed that he was beating his wife. Thus the assumption that the husband has been beating his wife. The truthful answer, "no," only leads to the false conclusion that he is still beating his wife.
If, as the questioner, I somehow restrain the man to "yes" or "no," whether by spurious and irrelevant quoting of Scripture, or some legal subterfuge, or threat of force, or whatever, then I've constructively lied about the man and his reputation. I've committed a very grave violation of the Eighth Commandment (or whatever Commandment it is for you guys - 7th? 9th?).
If on the other hand, I DON'T constrain the man from answering more than "yes" or "no," and he insists on only saying "no," then he has told the truth insofar as he has spoken, but he has lied by omission. And he has then committed a grave violation of the Eighth Commandment.
His sin is not only against himself, but against me, too. By inducing me to continue to believe false and terrible charges against him, he sins against me. And he sins against everyone whom he induces to believe this falsehood.
Thus, if someone asks me "Are you a born again Christian?" and I know that the person is not Catholic, then I also know that it is possible that he may not understand a simple "yes" or "no" answer as I give it.
If I don't provide a little more information than "yes" or "no," regardless of his spurious and irrelevant Scriptural quotes to the contrary, then I may have led him into false belief, and will have sinned against him.
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