9. Do Not Bear False Witness | 5 Minute Video
Lying Is the Root of Evil
The most important ingredient to building a moral society is truth, both inside and outside a courtroom. The prohibition against “bearing false witness” does not only demand that truth reigns supreme in a trial, but that it is a societal value throughout the culture. Bad things happen when people believe lies. With truth, we can build a decent society. Without it, even the other nine commandments won’t help.
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Script:
The Ninth of the Ten Commandments is “You shall not give false witness against your neighbor.” This means two things: “Do not lie when testifying in court.” And, “Do not lie.” Period. Remember, in order for an action to be prohibited or demanded in the Ten Commandments it has to be fundamental to making civilization. As important as donkey riding might have been when the Ten Commandments were given, the Ten Commandments contains no commandment to ride your donkey responsibly. A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth — whether inside or outside a courtroom. If people testify falsely in a courtroom, there can be no justice. And without even the hope of justice, there can be no civilization.
The Hebrew Bible was so adamant on this subject that the punishment imposed on a witness who gave false testimony was the same as the punishment that would have been meted out to the accused had the false testimony been believed. In the case of a crime that would be punishable by death, therefore, the false witness was liable to be put to death. But the commandment is clearly concerned with truth generally, not only in a courtroom.
Both the great twelfth century Jewish commentator, Ibn Ezra, and one of the most influential biblical scholars of the 20th century, Brevard Childs of Yale University, agreed that the commandment was about truth-telling generally. As Childs pointed out, if the Ten Commandments were solely concerned with truth and falsehood in a courtroom, it would have added words such as “in court.”
There are many important values in society, but truth is probably the most important. Goodness and compassion may be the most important values in the micro, or personal, realm. But in the macro, or societal, realm, truth is even more important than compassion or kindness. Virtually all the great societal evils, such as African slavery, Nazism and Communism, have been based on lies.
There were slavetraders, Nazis and Communists who were compassionate in their personal lives, but all of them told, and most of them believed, some great lie that enabled them to participate in a great evil. Black slavery was made possible in large measure by the lie that blacks were innately inferior to whites. The Holocaust would have been impossible without tens of millions of people believing the lie that Jews were inherently inferior to so-called Aryans. And Communist totalitarianism was entirely based on lies. That’s why the Soviet Union’s Communist Party newspaper was named Pravda, the Russian word for “Truth” — because the Party, not objective reality, was the source of truth.
There is only so much evil that can be done by individual sadists and sociopaths. In order to murder millions, vast numbers of otherwise normal, even decent, people must believe lies. Mass evil is committed not because a vast number of people seek to be cruel, but because they are fed lies that convince them that what is evil is actually good. However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don’t place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.
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I didn’t lie!! Age and wasted Spanish class was it!!! I can’t stand liars!!!!!
Love is best. We will be alive forever. Thank you.
More hypocracy and delusion. Capitalism is as much based on lies as any other system. It is based on false witness, abomination, exploitation, conflict, usurption, and superiority through violence. They say they have the law but the alter greatly in their favor the distortion of the law to justify that which is unjust. They are committed to inflicting poverty and violence upon the world even its destruction while claiming great wealth. They constantly blasemphy God by invoking his name and asking for blessing while they murder, lie, and steal. God has promised to remove the abomination. His word is true and in time they will be destroyed. Their religion is false, their society is false, their civilization is false, they decieve the whole world but mainly they decieve themselves. They will disappear in time and no one will know anything about them. The world will live and humanity will once again thrive and love one another as he was sacrificed for their wickedness, his parting words were: 'Love one another as i have loved you.'😅
Love is best
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Would someone tell Donald Tr 💩 mp and his cult this.
They are so Hell bent on telling lies.
Modesto, Ca and Stanislaus county tryna make.fake rape charges. Can a society survive with a room full of liars. No it's hilarious watching them impose they're truth. Trick ass police and false witness
This reminds me of Donald trump and his constant lies that MILLIONS believe!
3:20 my favorite part
https://youtu.be/vsOI48SoPHc
Do not bear false witness
The 9th commandment is do not covet you're neighbour's wife
I totally agree. God wants honesty.
Lying only makes the hole deeper.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all *LIARS*, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
– Revelation 21:8
Teachers believe that when there are witnesses that makes it the truth!
Prager needs to pay attention to his own words, the hypocrit
I like Prager…. I would like it better with a little less preaching…. I am conservative but not religious….
How is the exception of lying in the cause of the immediate saving of an innocent life justified? (Though I agree with it)
thank you
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I hope the flock continues to donate.
I appreciate the videos, which pay for themselves. Please give more to the poor!
He said, lyingly.
I'd watch this but I'm not willing to be so close to the inevitable lightening strike.
Do parents those beat their own children ?
The answer is no.
It distorts your life and may cause great harm. No cause is better than truth telling. That's why people steal, thieves covet their victims property. 👆
About me I those believe lies and say what's 🥺 evil is actually good.😊 I have to watch this video a thousand time. 👇
Social workers always lies on oath what goes around comes around
Social services always lie on oath so what comes around goes around always remember that
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Call should not be a something more from all things from making some help make something for fraud then a tree and a book and a rock in a fish that not doing can't have something for from fish crawling around Shane is more from them nothing is all thing is from is making his best not it's going to do
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Okay thing reversed childish non-sense too many times, falsating evidence to have somebody abused by employed officials doesn't change debts from loans etc, that a total societal drain amd recorberates furthermore unto & of… nor does it mean anyone's wronged anybody or done anything against another, except such deeds… Pretend somebody's the one who burned the eigfel tower isn't really the best way to make any friends around the building… Ty👋👋
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There is so much Bearing False Witnessing on the internet its unbelievable!
Speaking on someone elses situation with no facts is bearing false witness.. We all done this! Including me but I do not do this ish anymore.. I mind my own business.. If VIEWS ARE THAT IMPORTANT TO YOU THAT YOU'RE GONNA RISK playing with yo own spirit.. That's on you.. Spreading false rumors is a sucka act.. Always speaking on someone else but you never ever ever expose yourself is a bad road to go down.. I understand why people don't like internet people cuz all mfs do is bear false witness for views..
A rumor can get someone hurt!
Bearing False witness can ruin someone's life!
That's why it was banned in the old books so humans can be able to live around another! How can you live if a mf gone make up a story on you every 5 seconds?
I hope things change maybe some of y'all are not aware of bearing false witness but some of y'all are doing it..
And that's why our justice system is so fragile . And there are no repercussions for the deceiver .
#metoo and BLM obviously didn't listen to this one
Reformed Theology:
And yet, there is absolutely nothing in Scripture that defends this argument!
https://youtu.be/MX3Hu8loXTE
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The irony
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