To me so may jokes run so close to lies that I can't stand it.
Now i know there is many jokes that are just plain funny and no lie included.
I don't mind those as long as they are good and clean.
But i have seen to many jokes that are really a lie; but since it is done in a joke form then it is called a joke and not a lie.
So then it is suppose to be ok.
Not for me though.
So i have a rule at our house, unless you immediately say after the supposed joke that it is a joke, it will be considered a lie. And will receive the appropriate correction for a lie.
I have been told a "joke", but took it as the truth and pass it on to others only to find out a day or more later, "Oh I was just joking about that."
I am like, "no, that is no joke, that is a lie."
Lying should not be justified in no way or form.
GOD hates lying and we should too! (Proverbs 6: 16-19)
No wonder there is a place in the Bible that talks against joking or jesting.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not once be named among you, as becometh saints;
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5: 3-4
Well i guesss that about sums up my topic on lying.
Bottom line, LYING IS WRONG. GOD HATES LYING.
Our children need to know that from a very early age.
And us parents need to set that excample.
In Him,
Mae
I love hearing your comments!
I also had a bad experience with this. Many years ago, I decided to get a facial piercing. My cab driver (a family friend) told me a long elaborate story about how he knew a teenager who had to lose the bottom half of her jaw because of getting this piercing and having it get infected. I was traumatized.. it is all I could think of and my piercing did not heal properly for a year and I was constantly worried about serious infection.. because of this story. He had no idea how much this story affected me and controlled my thoughts, and terrified me. This, all to find out one day that it was all a made up story to scare me. He thinks it is hilarious to this day. Lies are not funny jokes.. that is so very true!
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