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 Google
"Catechism search" for an
online Catechism search engine, for which there are many.
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 non-Catholics 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 non-Catholic minister stated that he
became Catholic after realizing five things about the Catholic Church: Its
Authority, its Antiquity, its Unity, its Liturgy, and its Sacraments.
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