LIES: Why Do People Lie?

It has been argued by many preachers and Bible teachers that when someone lies or bears false witness they are more like Satan (the Devil) than at any other time in life. Why? Satan is "the Father of Lies" (John 8). The question is, "Why do people lie?"

No one can give an accurate and complete answer to the question without hundreds of pages of psychological jargon and a thesis on hearts of human beings themselves. However, a lie is told to either secure a desireable outcome or deter an undesireable outcome.   

Since people rightly or wrongly generally trust what is said to them, until the source is proven to have told them something wrong, lying is at least a temporary "quick fix" to pressing problems or needs. Understand? Lies also buy time.

A human being's words originate in their heart; for, "...out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" (Luke 6, Matthew 12, the Holy Bible).

People dare to lie/bear false witness despite it being a sin and a violation of one of the sacred Ten Commandments listed in the Book of Exodus. Thus, in the bigger picture, lies are told to change the course of events and probable outcomes, and the motives are selfish. 

In an odd twist, we should also remember that somehow greed and the love of money are always directly or indirectly tied to lies also. How? Lies are evil, and "the love of money is the root of all evil/kinds of evil" (I Timothy 6). Get it?

Lies are dishonest fixes to pending situations, and are told to alleviate uncomfortable predicaments and change them into ill-begotten personal gains of some type. People are evil, and that is why they lie...

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