(April 2, 2013 at 7:52 am)Joel Wrote:(April 2, 2013 at 7:50 am)MysticKnight Wrote: That is an interpretation. In Islam, I know you had a concept of lying then you had "Taqiya", which included lying if you can save lives or did it out of fear of your own life. I'm not sure how Christians interpret the command not to lie, but it can be, that it is a general rule, and has it's exceptions.
Anyways, Divine command theory is possible without the Bible or Torah or a Holy Book. It can be stating that our morality is a command from God.
Nowhere in the bible does it say that lying is permissable, given a certain situation.
It doesn't have to. It can be taken as a general rule of thumb regardless.
People do it here all the time. They say "Christians this and that..." and are generalizing and don't mean absolutely.
Unless it was stated "it is wrong to lie in any circumstance no matter what" or something on those lines, it's open to interpretation, that it's a general rule of thumb. That it's true 90-99% of the time.
