He distorted the truth that it escorted sickness and death into the perfect world God created. He uttered the first lie when he told Eve she will become like God if she eats from the tree that God forbade them to eat from. It’s not exaggerating to say that Devil is the inventor of lies. It’s not appropriate for us because we are a new creation in Christ. When we lie we put on our old and sinful self once again. When Paul says to the church of Colossi that they have put off the old self with its practices, (2 Corinthians 5:17) he intends to say that lying is like taking their clean clothes off and putting them back on that are dirty which is inappropriate. In Judaism, the condition of one’s dress was a symbol of the character of his relationship with God. It brings us to a state in which we cannot call ourselves God’s children anymore. Likewise The lies we tell actually affect our relationship with God because lying makes us spiritually uncircumcised and unclean. In the OT people other than Jews were considered unclean and any uncircumcised (a symbol of impurity) Jews were also considered unclean and aliens among God’s people.

In the Hebrew Bible, the term “abomination” is rendered in a sense of ceremonial uncleanliness. In today’s sermon, we are going to discuss 4 reasons why? 1. According to the Bible, however, all forms of lying are absolute sins. Although it is one of the seven abominations to God (Proverbs 6:16-19), lying is also the most common sin even among Christians because most of us don’t take lying seriously.

Thou shalt not lie verse