James 5:12 Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

James 5:12 “But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.”

Matthew 5:34-37 James 5:12 But I say to you, do not take an oath at all, But above all, my brothers, do not swear either by heaven for it is the throne of God, either by heaven or by earth, for it is his foot-stool, or by earth Or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King or by any other oath, Do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply “Yes”’ or “No” But let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, Anything more than this comes from evil. So that you may not fall under condemnation.

“The question, Is it true. can be asked of anything we read “The question, Is it true? can be asked of anything we read. It is applicable to every kind of writing.… No higher commendation can be given any work of the human mind than to praise it for the measure of truth it has achieved; by the same token, to criticize it adversely for its failure in this respect is to treat it with the seriousness that a serious work deserves. Yet, strangely enough in recent years, for the first time in Western history, there is a dwindling concern with this criterion of excellence. Books win the plaudits of the critics and gain widespread popular attention almost to the extent that they flout the truth—the more outrageously they do so, the better.” Mortimer Adler in How to Read a Book

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain