Liar Liar, Pants on Eternal Fire

The Bible tells us that all human beings are liars (Psalm 116:11), and that the spiritual father of liars is the devil himself.

Here's how Jesus Christ described Satan: "He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44)

Though most folks consider lying to be more of an annoyance than anything else, it's repugnant to God. Furthermore, the Bible reveals that eternal damnation is the destiny of all unrepentant liars: "Outside (of Heaven) are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." (Revelation 22:15)

Predictably, lying is encouraged by some world religions such as Islam and Judaism when falsehood advances the cause. Lying in Islam is called Taqiyya which can be used against infidels for the purpose of deceiving them.

Judaism permits falsehood for the purpose of diplomacy rather than deceit. For example? Judaism allows a person to complement someone who cooked a bad meal rather than insult and embarrass them. Certainly, it's considered bad manners to insult other folks when it involves telling the truth. Some people call diplomatic lies "white lies." But they're lies nonetheless.

Those sorts of lies probably won't condemn you to eternal damnation. But lying for the purpose of concealing criminal or immoral acts will. Lying for the purpose of cheating someone out of money or material possessions will. And lying for purpose of preventing someone's salvation by denying that Jesus Christ is the only "Way and the Truth and the Life" (John 14:6) to eternal life, will really get you into serious trouble with God.

The real reason why people lie is because they think they can get away with it. Most people lie out of fear because they've got something to hide. And secular researchers have discovered that children begin to lie as early as 2-3 years of age.

Professor Robert Feldman of the University of Massachusetts says this:

We're really trained to be deceptive. If we're not, if we're totally truthful all the time that's not a good thing, there's a price to be paid for that. We don't like people who tell us the truth all the time. The lies that we accept from politicians right now are lies that are seen as acceptable because it's what we want to hear, like a spouse saying that an outfit flatters you. 

Politicians are considered the worst sort of liars. Feldman accurately claims that politicians love to tell people what they want to hear. That's designed to get votes. However, when politicians fail to deliver on their promises, then reality sets in. By then, it's usually too late.

Who can forget Barack Obama's now legendary lie? "If you like your health insurance, you can keep it." That was designed to sell his catastrophic health care bill that forced many people to acquire health insurance coverage they didn't want and couldn't afford. Yet despite that lie and a myriad of others, Obama is still held in high esteem by his loyal followers.

Professor Kang Lee of the University of Toronto states that "there's a high cost in everyday society — a loss of trust that is difficult to regain — when someone is discovered to be lying." There are also costs to the liar, he said, noting studies that measure the effect of deception on the body and brain and how much energy it takes to create and maintain a lie.

The apostle Paul warned that falsehood will flourish in the last days preceding the return of Jesus Christ: "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

We're living in the time that Paul prophesied of. Millions of people embrace lies such as evolution, global warming and false religions (Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism etc.) without investigating them for evidence. And why don't they investigate them? Because they've embraced delusion.

What happens to people who reject the truth to embrace lies? Paul wrote: "They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness." (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12)

That's the real tragedy of falsehood. Or, as the old saying goes: If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't true.

A Lying Son of a Barack

If there's anything that can truly be said about Barack Obama, it's this: He provides an endless supply of material for conservative bloggers and journalists.

America's Leftist Prince lectured Christians yet again at a recent Easter prayer breakfast when he said this: "On Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian, I am supposed to love. And I have to say that sometimes when I listen to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned. But that’s a topic for another day."
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If Obama is truly the Christian that he claims to be, then he surely understands that if Christians are supposed to be all about love, they're also supposed to be all about the truth.

The Bible condemns lying in no uncertain terms. If Obama is unfamiliar with that, then here are some reminders: "Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight." (Proverbs 12:22) Here's another one: "A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame." (Proverbs 13:5) And here's yet another verse that condemns lying: "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies." (Proverbs 14:5)

Certainly, the test of a true Christian is honesty and integrity. Obama fails that test so miserably that the truth is as alien to him as manners are to a wild beast. When Obama lies he speaks his native language because he's a natural and compulsive liar. Sadly, many Americans don't seem to care and refuse to hold him accountable for his mendacity.

Obama's lies are toxic and legion. They include his promise to conduct a transparent administration; his claim that his IRS didn't target conservative groups for abuse; his promise that Americans could keep their doctors and health insurance under his healthcare law, and his salute to Bowe Bergdahl as a military hero even when the government and military had voluminous evidence that Bergdahl was a deserter and a traitor.

Why does Obama lie so frequently? Well, because he's a liar, that's why. However, he lies because his followers are either too ignorant or apathetic--or both--to care. And he lies because that's what leftists do to pass their agendas. Since most people would never approve of their true intentions, leftists must cloak them in lies to implement them.

For example, Obamacare was never about providing healthcare to the poor and downtrodden. It was really about creating a government controlled single payer system that will decide who gets healthcare and who doesn't. Since most people would never support such a system, it had to be sold to them as something it was never intended to be.

Lying has been a human failing since the dawn of history. Jesus Christ called Satan "a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44) Christ also called the devil the father of lies. If he's considered the father of lies, then all those who willfully and wantonly lie are his children. And that includes those who profess to be Christians.

God's law condemns lying in no uncertain terms: "Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another." (Leviticus 19:11) The ninth of the 10 Commandments says this: "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor." (Exodus 20:16) And Psalm 63:11 states that "the mouths of liars will be silenced."

What does lying have to do with end time prophecy? It has to do with this: The apostle Paul warned that many people would turn away from God and His laws in the last days to worship created things and idols. (Romans 1:21-27) 

When people reject God, they convince themselves that they're accountable to no one but themselves. And when that happens, this happens: "Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." (Romans 1:28-32)

That's what happens to people who convince themselves that they're nothing more than the end product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces. That describes Obama and his leftist comrades. And that's why they lie so frequently about anything and everything. They don't believe that they're accountable for it.

But they are. And unless they wake up from their godless delusions before they leave this world, they're in for a terrible surprise when they enter eternity. Concerning the eternal fate of liars, the Lord spoke these words to the prophet Isaiah: "From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me. And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." (Isaiah 66:23-24)

Would Obama consider that a "less than loving expression?" So be it. If that bothers him, then he should go look in the mirror.