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NASB | Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its evil practices, |
Subject: is it ok to lie in certain cases |
Bible Note: bowler :: I know the hour is late and perhaps I nodded off for a moment, but in reading your post, I was taken back in my reverie to the time years ago when I read Erskine Caldwell's novel, "God's Little Acre." Written in the 1930s, it is the story of a Georgia dirt farmer named Ty Ty Walden and his family. They lived off the land. In good years they got by but in bad years they suffered enormously. It was during one of the bad years when a severe drought threatened to wipe out all of Ty Ty's crops that he went alone out into the middle of his sun-scorched fields and, in his own clumsy way, began to pray. As I recall the prayer, it went something like this: "Now God, you know we need rain and we need it bad. I've been patient with you but I'm here to tell you my patience is running out. We need rain today, but I'm willing to give you until tomorrow to do something, and if you don't, well, I'm going to have to take matters into my own hands. Amen." ...... When you said in your post about one being placed in a situation in which there were no good options and no time left to wait it out to see whether God would deliver -- this was so close to Ty Ty's prayer in the parched field that it evoked a virtual deja vu in my mind. ..... But neither Ty Ty's prayer nor your post said much about the providence of God. And were you unable to find anything in Scripture that would corroborate some of your statements, especially those in the second paragraph of your post? --Hank |