v. deceit, false
Exo 23:7 word of m you will go away, and you will not kill
1Ki 22:22; 2Ch 18:21 I will be the spirit of my mouth
Job 6:28 and see if I say m before you
13:4
manifestation contrary to the truth, whose purpose is deception. With this term is designated in the Scriptures from the simple lie to fraud and falsehood.
You can fall into the m. by word or deed. M. is to hide a truth through evasive answers, like Cain’s when Yahweh asked him about his brother Abel: † œI don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?† , Gn 4, 9. Half-truths can be told, which constitute lies, since they are said with the purpose of deceiving, as when Abraham presented his wife as a sister to Abimelech, Gn 20, 2 and 12. Keep silent, like Judas Iscariot, who did not take the hint when the Lord, at the Last Supper, referred to him indirectly as the one who would betray him and hand him over, Jn 13, 21-30.
Idols and idolatry in general are called in Scripture m. Am 2, 4; My 2, 11.
In the NT the m. appears as the means used by the devil “father of lies”, to deceive, Jn 8, 44. The m. contrary to the truth is linked to evil, Rm 1, 25; 2 Thess 2, 9-12. In Acts 5, 1-11, a fraud is referred to, that of Ananias and his wife, of whom the apostle Peter says that Satan took possession of their hearts, because they tried to deceive the apostles out of greed, and that they were terribly punished . The apostle Paul, speaking of the new life in Christ, exhorts the Christian faithful: “Therefore, rejecting the m., tell the truth one to another, for we are members one of another†, Eph 4, 25; Col 3, 9.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
(say the opposite of what one thinks, or has in mind).
– Do not lie, it is the 8th commandment of the Law of God, Exo 20:16.
– Forbidden and abhorrent to God, Lev 19:11, Pro 6:16-19, Col 13:9, Pro 12:22.
– Satan is the father of lies, and he induces us to lie, Jua 8:44, 1 R.22:22 – He excludes from Heaven, Rev 21:27, Rev 22:15.
– Sign of apostasy, 2Th 2:9, 1Ti 4:2.
– Jesus is the truth, Joh 1:14, Joh 1:16, Joh 14:6.
Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez
http://bible.com/dictionary/
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
tip, LEYE
see, Forbidden in the Word of God (Ex. 23:7) and hated by the righteous (Prov. 13:5); punishment is announced on the one who practices it (Prov. 19:5, 9). The convert to Christ departs from his old way of living and, walking in newness of life, must cast off lies and speak the truth (Eph. 4:25; cf. Mt. 5: 33-37). The quintessential lie is the denial and opposition to Christ, denying the testimony of God (1 Jn. 2:22; 5:10). The origin of the lie is in Satan (Jn. 8:44), who presented a false image of God to Eve, pushing the first couple to death (Gen. 3:1-6). Men can lie to themselves (James 1:22), mistaking their own desires for reality; they can lie to each other (Lev. 19:11); they can lie to God (Acts 5:3, 4), although they certainly cannot deceive him. Lies are abhorred by God because they destroy the correct understanding of reality (“we walk in darkness”, cf. 1 Jn. 1:6), with which man deviates from true knowledge and communion with God. Lying destroys trust between men, darkens understanding, and leads to eternal destruction (Rev. 21:7; 22:15). God does not lie nor can he lie (Num. 23:19), neither fitting nor being able to fit in Him because He is the first and last and absolute reality against which every lie attempts (cf. 1 Sam. 15:29; Tit. 1:2; Heb 6:18). For his part, Jesus, God himself manifested in the flesh, is the same “truth”, the truth about God, and the truth of what God wanted man to be, the sum of all perfections (cf. Jn. 14 :6). For this reason, the one who has communion with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ, exclaims from the heart: “I abhor and abhor lies; I love your law” (Ps. 119:163).
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Voluntary concealment of the truth from those who have the right to know it. Result of the action of lying. It is synonymous with falsehood, deception, lie, farce. It is different from error, from ignorance, from mistake, from doubt. (See Lying)
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy
(v. truth)
(ESQUERDA BIFET, Juan, Dictionary of Evangelization, BAC, Madrid, 1998)
Source: Dictionary of Evangelization
The lie is the denial of the truth; the lie cannot be of the truth (1 Jn 2,21). The lie is born of the Devil, who is his father. When the Devil tells a lie, he is talking about his own being, he is showing us his own essence, since he has a lying nature (Jn 8:44). To live in the truth is to be with God and with men (Jn 3,21; 14,6; 18,37), and to live in a lie is to put oneself behind God and men, to be of the Devil (Jn 8, 44).
MNE
FERNANDEZ RAMOS, Felipe (Dir.), Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth, Editorial Monte Carmelo, Burbos, 2001
Source: Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth
MORAL THEOLOGY
SUMMARY
Premise. I. The ethical negativity of lying:
1. Anthropological perspective;
2. Biblical-theological perspective;
3. Historical perspective.
II. The case of conflict;
1. By way of example;
2. Solution attempts;
3. Critical observations;
4. The dialectical solution.
III. Collective and public dimension of the lie.
Premise
In the awareness of the constitutive values of the person and the community, the ethical subject recognizes and affirms the truth as an original, decisive and essential good. The truth means for freedom a pluralism of tasks and commitments, synthesized and unifiable in the ethical duty and in the moral virtue of truthfulness. This is the permanent and dynamic disposition of freedom towards what is true, which implies permeability, respect, demonstration; in a word, fidelity to the truth. That is why he himself rejects the pact with falsehood, excludes all duplicity, repudiates deception; that is, he rejects the “lie” as antithesis and contradiction of himself.
The lie takes shape in the word. Not only in the word simply spoken, but expressed in any type of manifestation by the human being. Where what is manifested is not an effective sign, but distorts and deviates from what is true, there is a lie, which takes the form of deception, fiction or hypocrisy.
I. The ethical negativity of lying
Truthfulness consents to the creative dynamism of truth in the person and in society; the lie interferes with it, preventing it or breaking it down in a negative sense. The lie does not represent, in any way, a possibility, but a mystification that the human and Christian conscience stigmatizes and prohibits as an evil and a vice: “Do not lie”.
1. ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Man lives an intimate tendency to truth. Once achieved, recognized, it does not leave him indifferent -that is, free to adhere to it or not-, but rather creates fidelity by itself. Recognition of the truth and fidelity to the truth form a unit, ethically inseparable. The lie intervenes in this unity by breaking it; it is infidelity to the truth, its ethical ignorance.
Man is faithful to the truth in the “word according to truth” that he pronounces for himself and for others. First of all for himself, because it is the first relationship, the inner relationship with himself. For this reason, the first lie is the simulation or dissimulation of the truth from oneself, according to a process of “accommodation” more or less a reflection of the truth that is found. at the origin of so many deceptions that man no longer succeeds or is never capable of confessing to himself. That is why every lie is always a “self-deception” that dissociates the person from himself. This is no longer confirmed and reconciled by the truth, but rather alienated by the image that he tends to create of himself and of reality.
The lie, in addition, attempts against the proper meaning of the word of being a manifestive sign of inner thought. No interiority is transparent by itself, but by the symbolic mediation of language. This has the intrinsic purpose of being a vehicle of thought. The lie interferes with this purpose, expropriating language of its own intrinsic function as a sign and instrumentalizing it for ends that are foreign to it. In it the word is not at the service of truth, but of interest.
The lie, finally, betrays the trust and the promise that every word-sign means for the other, with socially destructive effects. Every community and society comes from the free meeting of people who communicate, opening each other to the truth of their own thought. The word, pronounced or expressed in any way, is an act of mutual trust, establishing human relationships. Communicating is giving faith to the word. Every lie attempts against this credit of the word. It violates the promise that every word means for the addressee, misleads him, diverting him for his own pleasure and hurting his dignity as a person. Every lie is a breach of trust, alienating people and encouraging the breakdown of social ties. The lie deceives the other, with socially degrading, contagious and involutive consequences.
“Debasers”: the other – especially the smallest, the most defenseless – unconsciously suffers the deception, and in this way is manipulated and conditioned. “Contagious”: the other, having discovered the deception, simulates or masks himself, responding to falsehood with falsehood. “Involutionary”: once the confusion or deception is revealed, the other suffers a disappointment, withdraws into himself, distrusts society. In any case, and in whatever way it is expressed, lying threatens the human community, becoming a factor of disunity.
2. BIBLICAL-THEOLIGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Creature and companion, within the alliance; of a God who in himself is émeth, truth that manifests itself in the gift of creative and liberating love, man is constituted in truth and called to a fidelity of loyalty that does not tolerate any duplicity: Lord, who is pleased with those who act in sincerity” (Pro 12:22). Hence the prescriptive requirement of the law: “Do not lie, do not deceive one another” (Lev 19:11; cf Exo 23:7; Sir 7:13-14), supported by the prayer: “Get away from me the falsehood and falsehood” (Pro 30:8).
This being of the truth and in the truth of God is realized in a supreme way in the personification in a new man in Christ, “created according to God in the justice and in the holiness of the truth” (Eph 4:24). Therefore, the incompatibility between lying and Christian life is an operative reflection of the ontological contrast between the old man and the new man: “Do not deceive one another, since you have put off the old man and put on the new man” (Col 3: 9-10).
From the “personalistic” reason, the “ecclesial” reason has been derived: “For this reason, turn away from lies; decide each…