Bearing false witness is honestly not the same as lying, but I feel you. If pen names and avatars and cover identities are truly wrong, we'd all be hamstrung in the fight online. Staying anon is getting harder, but research must be done, investigation and exposition is an important part of the whole awakening thing. Exposing ourselves risks our livelihoods, our banking, etc as well as that of our families... Look what happened to Torba way back, what's happening to Farage now, and the truckers and their supporters, the Jan 6 people. More seriously, look at the mysterious deaths of docs who spoke out, holistic docs and their families, witnesses who spoke about Vegas, Blockchain inventors, etc.
"Lying" in common English, and you can say whatever you want to say.
I'm referring to what the original Hebrew scripture actually says, and considering the context of 'witness' from the time: witnesses caused conviction of people for crimes and this could entail very harsh sentences. It does make historical and biblical sense, just like 'thou shall not murder' makes sense rather than the mistranslation of 'kill', because 'normal' killing was fairly common, considering all the wars, brigands, etc. and that there was no police force.
Don't mistake modern life for ancient times or first world life for third world existence... they survived and guess what? They had the same IQs as we have now, so anything we could come up with they probably already did, for good and bad.
Bearing false witness is honestly not the same as lying, but I feel you. If pen names and avatars and cover identities are truly wrong, we'd all be hamstrung in the fight online. Staying anon is getting harder, but research must be done, investigation and exposition is an important part of the whole awakening thing. Exposing ourselves risks our livelihoods, our banking, etc as well as that of our families... Look what happened to Torba way back, what's happening to Farage now, and the truckers and their supporters, the Jan 6 people. More seriously, look at the mysterious deaths of docs who spoke out, holistic docs and their families, witnesses who spoke about Vegas, Blockchain inventors, etc.
I'd say bearing false witness is exactly lieing , lieing about the truth.
"Lying" in common English, and you can say whatever you want to say.
I'm referring to what the original Hebrew scripture actually says, and considering the context of 'witness' from the time: witnesses caused conviction of people for crimes and this could entail very harsh sentences. It does make historical and biblical sense, just like 'thou shall not murder' makes sense rather than the mistranslation of 'kill', because 'normal' killing was fairly common, considering all the wars, brigands, etc. and that there was no police force.
Don't mistake modern life for ancient times or first world life for third world existence... they survived and guess what? They had the same IQs as we have now, so anything we could come up with they probably already did, for good and bad.
What Bible do you use ?
An annotated research one that I've had since college, plus Greek and Latin references. You?