Out Our Way: Goliath's Covenant Trail: The big lie

Out our way, it was once understood that our word was our bond. Yet there have always been those who, as they said in the movies, “speak with forked tongue.” Liars and cheats have always been a problem and so it’s not surprising God condemns it. This is especially true when it comes to public trust — for those who lie in public are considered especially wicked.

In the ancient world before the days of CSI and FBI labs, evidence was mainly eyewitness accounts. It took two witnesses, whose testimony agreed with each other, to be considered evidence. Now of course, people could and did...