Short Answer
I would think that it would be very clear to everyone who wants to know who is lying. It seems so clear to me, but some people seem confused.
You have two groups of people, and each group is accusing the other of lying. Each group is claiming to be telling the truth. One of these groups is commonly called liberals. The other group is commonly called right-wingers or conservatives or Christian conservatives.
These two groups have totally different views of the world around them.
The right-wing group tends to embrace Christian values and one of these values is the concept that says: "It is a sin to tell a lie. A lie is an abomination to God. There are absolutes. There is an absolute God. There is an absolute truth. There are absolute lies. The ends do not justify the means. Our leaders are held to internal consistency and integrity." The Christian conservatives are appalled by the worldly liberal concept that there are no absolutes and there is no truth.
The left-wing group embraces worldly liberal values and one of these values is the concept that says: "There is no such thing as truth and, as a result, no such thing as a lie. worldly liberals hate the Christians (and those who have been influenced by Christians) for their belief that there is such a thing as sin. There are no absolutes. There is no absolute God. There is no absolute truth. There are no absolute lies. An intellectual is one who can hold many conflicting opinions at the same time. It's about winning, not about truth. You do what you have to do to win; the ends justify the means. Presentation and control of the media is everything. Our leaders are not held to internal consistency and integrity." The worldly liberals are appalled by the Christian concept that there are absolutes and there is truth.
What a contrast!
Can you see what I see?
Is it as plain to you as it is to me which of these two groups is lying and which is telling the truth?
This does not divide down political party lines as neatly as some people would like to think. Some worldly liberals vote Republican, mostly because they have good math skills and realize that over-spending will break the economy. Some Christians vote Democrat, mostly because they are receiving some money from the Government or they think that huge government programs could somehow create utopia--a kind of kingdom of God without the King. Both have good intentions, but their underlying world views are very different from each other.
Detailed Answer
Someone’s lying, but who? Is it the liberals, who don't believe in truth or the non-liberals who believe in truth? Hmmmm. I wonder . . .
There is so much conflicting information that someone has to be lying. It seems to be difficult, at first, to tell who is lying. The reality is that it is easy to tell who is telling the truth and who is lying. Evolution, by the way, isn't science.
Let's look at the world-view of the believers of evolution, which is just one of the precepts of liberalism's great smorgasbord of religious ideas. Let's compare this world-view to that of a non-liberal.
The evolutionists say that there are exceptions to the second law of thermodynamics, but the creationists say there are not.
The evolutionists say that unborn children are living human beings but not real persons, but the creationists say they are real persons.
The evolutionists say there is no real truth, but creationists say that there is real truth.
The evolutionists say that there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong, but creationists say that there is such a thing as absolute right and wrong.
The evolutionists say that there is no such thing as a lie, since there is no absolute truth, but creationists say that there are lies and there is truth.
The evolutionists say that one person’s truth is not the same as another person’s truth, but the creationists say that God determines what truth is and is not impressed by human interpretations.
These are just the tip of the iceberg. The same type of disagreement goes on between the same two groups concerning global warming, the hole in the ozone layer, communism, socialism, relativism, post-modernism, chaos theory, all the ugly ways that the worldly people twist the holy and beautiful things that God reserved for marriage, belief in God, belief in Jesus, and the list could go on. Who is telling the truth? Is it hard to tell? I don’t think so.
Will both groups be caught in a lie from time to time? I think that it would be obvious that either group could be caught in a lie, but one group is continually lying on purpose, and one group is mostly telling the truth because they think that there is an overriding reason to tell the truth. The kinds of statements that are made could not be made if both sides were being truthful. They would be much closer together.
Who is telling the truth? For which group would it be important to tell the truth: the group who believes there is truth or the group who don’t believe in truth?
Those who don’t believe in truth, the evolutionists, say that they are more likely to tell the truth because they are not bound to such things as absolute truth, which makes them more truthful. Does that make sense to you?
Those who believe in truth, the creationists, say that they are more likely to tell the truth, because they believe that God hates lying. They believe that lying is a sin. Doesn’t it make more sense that the creationists are going to tell the truth?
The Secular religion to which the evolutionists belong does not require truth. It teaches that truth is relative. It teaches that great minds create "truth." It teaches that great intellects have the ability hold as true several conflicting thoughts at the same time.
For one who follows the dogma of Secularism, lying is not sin. In fact, great liars are held in high regard.
Who will be telling lies and who will be telling the truth? You can certainly know. It is easy to see. Only those who want to be willingly ignorant will not be able to answer this question.
Numbers 15:39 . . . and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Rom 8:7 because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.
Psalm 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Proverbs 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Summary
Who is more likely to lie? Is it those who follow the New Age's and Secularism's philosophy of liberalism, which says, "Do as thou wilt." "There are no absolutes." "There are no lies and there is no truth, only winners and losers." Or, on the other hand, is it those who follow the Christian philosophy of conservatism, which says, "Follow the ten commandments." "There are absolutes." "There are lies and there is truth." "It is not so much about winning as it is about doing the right thing." Granted, there will be mistakes and lies on both sides. There will be things that can be spun by the liberal media as being a lie when, in fact, no lie was told. And haven't we seen it over and over from liberal politicians, liberal "entertainers," liberal "news" casters, liberal authors, liberal teachers, and liberal film-makers? And that is part of the execution of the doctrine of liberalism. Bottom line! Liberals tend to respect a good liberal liar and to accuse anyone brave enough to tell the truth of lying. |