DISHONESTY;
OATHS; TRUTH: CARELESSNESS REGARDING

Men and women are well aware of their failures and frailty. They know their weaknesses, their duplicity, their tendency to be less than honest. So they add an oath to their covenant—an appeal to Someone greater than themselves: “So help me, God!”

I have always considered it a little humorous that sinful men who cannot trust each other call on God or the Holy Bible to witness that a sinful being is not going to tell a lie. I suspect there is a chuckle in hell whenever a person in one of our courts promises before God that he or she will “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”

Matthew 5:34–37; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:5–11; James 5:12

Jesus, Our Man in Glory, 88.