Here is a quote from United Church of God on how lying affects one's health. This is rich coming from UCG considering the incredible amount of lying that went on when they were apostatizing from WCG in the 1990's and then again when they ruptured with the COGWA split. Armstrongism has a sad legacy of lying. Justified lying has always been a fixture of the church, just as it has been in other cults like the JW's and Adventists.
Feel Better – Quit Lying!…
[Steve Myers] There’s a new research
study that is just out from the University of Notre Dame. I ran across
an interesting article that talked about the “science of honesty” –
that’s the name of the study. So, can you imagine that? The science of
honesty. And so it involves lying, imagine this. Here’s what the
researchers found at Notre Dame. They found that when people manage to
reduce their lies – this is over a 10 week period – they reported
significantly improved physical and mental health in those same weeks.
So they found there’s a direct correlation between not telling lies and
feeling better. And it’s an interesting study when you begin to look at
the details of this and the effects of lying on our mental and physical
health. There is a connection.
[Darris McNeely]
And that shouldn’t be surprising to us because lying is certainly
something forbidden by one of God’s Ten Commandments “Thou shalt not
lie” (Exodus 20: 16 and Deuteronomy 5:20). He put that in there as a
very important spiritual principle. And all of God’s law has certain
physical connections to our well-being as well as certainly our
spiritual relationship with God. So, from a scriptural perspective, that
shouldn’t be surprising.
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