Would you lie for your religion?

You believe your religion is the only road to salvation and you are - proverbially - throwing a life raft to drowning people. You have heard others have had success when proselytizing by giving testimonials about how they, themselves, were saved (from drugs, lives of crime, abusive family, etc.) through conversion. It is unlikely that a secondhand account of a conversion story will have the impact needed to get your audience to convert.

Would you lie? Would you repeat the testimonials of others to make it appear that YOU were saved from a terrible life (addicted to drugs, homeless, in jail, prostituting yourself, etc)? Would you embellish your own stories, so that it appears your conversion was more dramatic than it actually was? Would you knowingly lie to convert others?

2014-03-21T06:47:40Z

Mihail - Explain your answer. In there scenario, you have two choices, walk away or lie. If you walk away, no one will be "saved", if you lie, you might save some of them, but only by lying. Saying you don't need to lie doesn't answer the question as posed.

2014-03-21T06:48:53Z

Yvonne... same response as Mihail.

G C2014-03-21T06:38:59Z

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No. A lie is always against the other person, and never for them.

?2014-03-21T06:59:21Z

No, I was saved when I was 10 years old in a small Baptist church in a small Southern town on hot summer day. I see no need to embellish the truth.

There was no great drama like you have laid out but I had my own - I was saved !

My preacher told me later that when he asked me questions to see if I knew what I was doing, I was able to answer questions I should not have been able to answer. That proved that the Holy Spirit was guiding me.

pygonza2014-03-21T08:05:53Z

No my religion is based on Truth as a primary value. To lie to promote it would be a contradiction, and would threaten to soil the religion if the lie were found out, so no, no way.

Anonymous2014-03-21T06:35:48Z

Ist hat not bearing false witness though? Something that is condemned in the bible?

Anonymous2014-03-21T06:35:25Z

Religion itself IS a lie. So when anyone preaches, they re basicaly lying

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