Yielding To Lying Corrupts The Conscience And Becomes An Addiction

Lying, like all sin, is addicting ... like cocaine ...

".... all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone ...." Rev.21:8.

Is willful exaggeration a lie?  Yes. Is deception a lie?  Yes. Is intentionally leaving out a pertinent truth in an incident, when telling it, a lie? Yes. Is that what God is speaking of in the above verse?

Habitual liars lie when the truth would Strengthen Their Case.

Unrestrained lying, like all other sins,  is addictive, enslaving those who yield to it. A full-blown liar is not a person who just "fibs" or exaggerates infrequently, but someone who is addicted to lying and lies almost constantly out of habit.  In nominal terms, a "liar", like an alcoholic, is not someone who takes a drink, or tells a not quite truthful account, once in a while, but someone who is addicted to doing it constantly.

When Romans 3:3-4 charges the "unbelieving" skeptics of being liars, who are totally impotent in affecting the truth and faith of God, it does not mean that all men are unredeemable, Biblical liars, though all have lied. It means that "denying God" makes a person a Biblical liar above all liars, and eternally lost.     "For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar"     who does not believe God.  In both these verses he is speaking  of the unbelieving in God and Jesus, the Father and the Son.  God classifies them as liars about God and Jesus the Christ.  That is a flagrant, maximal liar, embracing the supreme lie which is far beyond all comprehension, the ultimate apex of lies .... NO GOD!  When the ultimate question is asked, by God, at the ultimate and final judgement .... "Who is a liar?", God will answer that question, as recorded in 1 John 2:22 ....

"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."     That is a Biblical and eternally lost liar of all liars.

The next time you feel compelled to lie, consider this jolting fact.       The Devil "is a liar and the father of it." John 8:44.