I don’t know where to turn. I’m going to lose my job in 10 days. My wife blames me and has turned on me. Everyone I know has gotten the Vax and is eager to throw those who haven’t under the bus (they’re not even approved here in Canada). I’m on the verge of losing everything. This truly is a nightmare.
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If you have to lie in order to do something, is that thing really worth doing?
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exodus 20:16 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/exo.20.16.KJV
It seems more like the 'principle of double effect' in moral theology.
If a woman was in a car accident, e.g., and got an emergency operation to say, repair her aorta to save her life - while that also risked the life of her not-yet-viable unborn child?
If she lost the child, the emergency decision to operate would not be considered a decision 'causing an abortion' morally, because the loss of the child was not the intention. It was a totally unwanted consequence or 'double-effect' of it.
Or similarly, if you were hiding people from the Nazis or communists? And the secret police came door to door, asking if anyone knew where they were - and you said, 'No'? Or a terrorist asked a group of hostages, to say if anyone in the room was American?
Morally (vs. circumstantially/technically), denying it would not have the quality of being a lie - because your primary spiritual will/intent was not to bear false witness, but to save a life. The spirit of the Law.
9 Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth. Jeremiah 1:9 NIV
https://jeremiah.bible/jeremiah-1-9
18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. Deuteronomy 18:18 NIV
16 I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ” Isaiah 51:16 NIV
https://isaiah.bible/isaiah-51-16
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV
https://1corinthians.bible/1-corinthians-6-19
9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. Romans 8:9 NIV
https://romans.bible/romans-8-9
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+7%3A5-15&version=NIV
The world can't cause you to sin, nor can circumstances. Your only trespass would be how you reacted to the world.
In those examples, is the person attempting to save lives in any way at fault for the circumstances leading to the child being lost or a lie being told in their efforts to save lives? No. Therefore, they have not defiled themselves and have done what is right.
There’s some sort of precedence for lying to be a spy in the Bible, can’t find it now. I’ll try to find the context