Tell
The Truth Or Suffer The Consequences !
Tell
The Truth Or Suffer The Consequences !
Holy Scripture is very clear that each one of us
is obligated to search for the truth and to abide by it. I am appalled
at the number of people who completely ignore these dire warnings from
the Bible, or are ignorant of the fact that they are there. Many non-Catholics
repeat outright lies about the Catholic Church and take what they have
heard or have been taught as truth, without bothering to find out if these
things are true or not. When they do this, not only are they calumnizing
the Catholic Church, but they are calumnizing its founder, Jesus Christ
Himself. After reading this file, not one person can ever again plead innocence
of what Scripture has to say about spreading the truth, and about not spreading
malicious lies.
Anyone who professes to follow Holy Scripture to
the letter, must follow ALL of what it says.
They cannot keep the parts they like and reject what they do not like.
Here are some verses which obligate each and every one of us to search
for the truth...
"This is good and agreeable in
the sight of GOD our Savior, who wishes ALL MEN TO BE SAVED AND TO COME
TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH."
1Tim 2:4
"Sanctify them in the truth.
Thy Word is truth."
John 17:17
"FOR THE WRATH OF GOD
IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL UNGODLINESS AND WICKEDNESS OF THOSE
MEN WHO IN WICKEDNESS HOLD BACK THE TRUTH
OF GOD."
ROMANS 1:18
That verse by itself should deter any GOD
loving person from spreading malicious lies... But there is much more to
come. Read on...
"BUT WRATH AND INDIGNATION
TO THOSE WHO ARE CONTENTIOUS, AND WHO DO NOT
SUBMIT TO THE TRUTH BUT ASSENT TO INIQUITY."
ROMANS 2:8
"...HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, AND HAS
NOT STOOD IN THE TRUTH BECAUSE
THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. WHEN HE TELLS A
LIE HE SPEAKS FROM HIS VERY NATURE, FOR HE IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF
LIES."
JOHN 8:44
Now that verse settles it. Lying comes from
Satan. The truth comes from GOD.
"BUT AS FOR THE COWARDLY
AND UNBELIEVING, AND ABOMINABLE AND MURDERERS, AND FORNICATORS AND SORCERERS,
AND IDOLATERS AND ALL LIARS,
THEIR PORTION SHALL BE IN THE POOL THAT BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE,
WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH."
REV 21:8
Pretty strong words for those who propagate
lies.
"...AND THERE SHALL
NOT ENTER INTO IT ANYTHING DEFILED, NOR HE
WHO PRACTICES ABOMINATION AND FALSEHOOD, BUT
THOSE ONLY WHO ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB."
REV 21:27
Let all who have eyes to see, see, and ears
to hear, hear.
"OUTSIDE ARE THE DOGS, AND THE SORCERERS,
AND THE FORNICATORS, AND THE MURDERERS, AND THE IDOLATERS, AND
EVERYONE WHO LOVES AND PRACTICES FALSEHOOD."
Rev 22:15
Verse after verse about what will happen to
liars.
"Lying lips
are an abomination to the Lord." Prov 12:22
"A false witness
shall not be unpunished,
and he that speaks lies shall not escape."
Prov 19:5
"The lip of truth shall
be steadfast forever; but he that is a hasty witness frames a lying
tongue."
Prov 12:19
"He that speaks that which he knows, shows forth
justice; but he that lies, is a deceitful
witness."
Prov 12:17
"Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and
the seventh His soul detesteth: haughty eyes, A
LYING TONGUE, hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,
A DECEITFUL WITNESS THAT UTTERETH LIES, AND
HIM THAT SOWETH DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN."
Prov 6:16-19
Wow! Who wants to be on the wrong side of GOD? Those who spread lies are
there already.
"I speak the truth
in Christ, I
do not lie, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit."
Romans 9:1
"To this I have been appointed a preacher and an
Apostle (I tell the truth, I do not lie),
a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth."
1Tim 2:7
"Rather we are to practice
the truth in love, and so grow up in all things
in Him who is the head Christ."
Eph 4:15
"Wherefore, put away
lying and speak truth each one with his neighbor,
because we are members of one another."
Eph 4:25
"O men, how long are you dull of heart? Why
do you love vanity and seek after lying?"
Psa 4:3
"But if you have bitter jealousy and contentions
in your hearts, do not glory and be liars against
the truth. This is not the wisdom that descends
from above. It is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where there is envy and contentiousness, there is instability and every
wicked deed."
James 3:14-16
Again! Lies are from Satan. Truth is from GOD.
"Now this is the judgment: The Light has come into
the world, yet men have loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their
works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not
come to the Light, that his deeds may not be exposed. But
he who does the truth comes to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest,
for they have been performed in GOD."
John 3:19-21
Again! Verse after verse, truth comes from GOD.
"And his coming is according to the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all wicked deception
to those who are perishing. For they have
not received the love of truth that they might be saved. Therefore GOD
sends them a misleading influence that they may believe falsehood, that
all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have preferred wickedness."
2Thess 2:9-12
Again! Need I say more?
"Therefore GOD has given them up in the lustful desires
of their heart to uncleanliness, so that they dishonor their own bodies
among themselves - they who exchanged the
truth of GOD for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than
the Creator who is Blessed forever. Amen."
Romans 1:24-25
Amen!
"What can be made clean by the unclean? And what
truth can come from that which is false?"
Sir 34:4
"But that servant who knew his masters will, and
did not make ready for him and did not act
according to his will, will be beaten with many stripes."
Luke 12:47
"For the rest, brethren, whatever
things are true, whatever honorable, whatever just, whatever holy, whatever
lovable, whatever of good repute, if there be any virtue, if anything worthy
of praise, think upon these things. And what
you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, these
things practice..."
Phil 4:8-9
"O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth;
thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved; thou hast bruised them,
and they have refused to receive correction;
they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused
to return."
Jer 5:3
"...No lie is of the truth."
1John 2:21
"Woe to you that call evil good and good evil; that
put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter."
Isaiah 5:20
"These then are the things, which
you shall do: Speak you truth everyone to his neighbor: judge you truth
and judgment of peace in your gates. And let
none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend, and
love not a false oath, for all these things I hate, said
the Lord."
Zech 8:16-17
"...Everyone that hath zeal for the law, and maintaineth
the testament, let him follow me."
1Macc 2:27
"Let thy speech be sound
and blameless, so that anyone opposing may
be put to shame, having nothing bad to say
of us."
Tit 2:8
"Keep yourselves therefore from murmuring, which
profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue
from detraction; for an obscure speech shall not go for naught, and the
mouth that believeth, KILLETH THE SOUL."
Wis 1:11
"Honor and glory is in the word of the wise, but
the tongue of the fool is his ruin."
Sir 5:15
"Ever learning yet never
attaining knowledge of the truth."
2Tim 3:7
"For there will come a time when they will
not endure the sound doctrine; but having itching ears, will heap up to
themselves teachers according to their own lusts, and they will turn away
their hearing from the truth and turn aside rather to fables."
2Tim 4:3-4
"Now the Spirit expressly says that in after times
some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines
of devils, speaking lies hypocritically, and
having their conscience branded."
1Tim 4:1-2
"But these men, like irrational animals created by
nature for capture and destruction, deride
what they do not understand, and WILL PERISH IN THEIR OWN CORRUPTION."
2Pet 2:12
There is a mouthful of food for thought in this verse, people who deride,
since they do not understand because they have not sought the truth. Look
at their end result.
"In these epistles there are certain things difficult
to understand, which the unlearned
and the unstable distort,
just as they do the rest of the Scriptures also, to
their own destruction."
2Pet 3:16
"Blessed are you when men reproach you, and persecute
you, and speaking falsely, say all manner
of evil against you, for My sake. Rejoice and exult, because your reward
is great in Heaven; for so did they persecute the prophets who were before
you."
Matt 5:11-12
"But all did not obey the Gospel. For Isaiah says,
Lord, who has believed our report?"
Romans 10:16
"He who says that he is in the Light, and hates his
brother, is in the darkness still. He who loves his brother abides in the
Light, and for him there is no stumbling. But he who hates his brother
is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and he does not know whither
he goes; because the darkness has blinded his eyes."
1John 2:9-11
"Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed
lest he fall."
1Cor 10:12
And who can possibly forget one of the ten commandments...
"You shall NOT bear
FALSE WITNESS against
your neighbor."
Ex 20:16
There you have it. Words straight from the Bible. Do you claim to follow
the Bible and all of its teachings? If so, you had better not spread lies
and calumnize others. Make sure of what you speak is truth only, and not
some false teaching you received from a secondary source. If you want to
find the truth about something you have to go to the source and not to
someone outside of that source who may be biased. If you want to learn
the truth of what the Catholic Church teaches, then go to the source. Purchase
a Catholic Catechism or go HERE
for a Catechism search engine.
A few reasons why some people would rather not search
for the truth...
They have a closed mind.
They are afraid of what they may find.
They have a fear of the unknown.
They are set in their ways and fear change.
Their pride is greater than their desire for the truth. It is human nature,
not to want to admit to a mistake.
They have a habit of automatically condemning something of which they know
nothing.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen once said, "Not many men want to die to their
lower selves; it costs so much. Some prefer to have a cosmic religion,
which NEITHER PUTS RESTRAINT ON THEIR PRIDE NOR CURBS THEIR PASSIONS."
They would not consider learning the truth of the Catholic Church because
they would have to give up some part of their lifestyle, such as using
contraceptive measures.
I have heard of several Protestants who would have to give up their livelihood,
as they are ministers, or gain their livelihood from Church services.
Family and peer pressures prevent them from seeking the truth. Remember,
GOD comes first in the lives of all of us. Ex 20:2-3
One highly educated ex Protestant minister stated he converted after realizing
five things about the Catholic Church: Its Authority, its Antiquity, its
Unity, its Liturgy, and its Sacraments.
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