A thoughtful quote…

 “A lie doesn’t become truth. wrong doesn’t become right. And evil doesn’t become good. Just because it’s accepted by the majority “…Booker T. Washington…

A thoughtful quote…

This quote by Booker T. Washington brought to mind many instances/quotes from scripture that show the same…

On a trip across America, our family stopped at Tuskegee University after having studied about Mr. Washington in school…it was quite impressive…

George Washington Carver was also a professor there. He prayed about the many uses of the abundant crop of peanuts and sweet potatoes…coming up with a multitude of recipes…

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/booker-t-washington#:~:text=Booker%20T.%20Washington%20%281856-1915%29%20was%20born%20into%20slavery,advised%20Presidents%20Theodore%20Roosevelt%20and%20William%20Howard%20Taft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

The Word addresses lies, liars, deceivers ….from the garden where Satan deceived Eve  to the end when Satan, the deceiver, is thrown into the lake of fire…

Over the ages, lies still don’t become truth…no matter how much we polish, shine and reword it…

I would ask that we seek truth…the Holy Spirit teaches us and leads us into truth…

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Psalm 25:5

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Psalm 86:11 

The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

Psalm 119:160

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 

17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 

26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 14:6,17,26 

Thank YOU…

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:1-5,13-15 

But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

Psalm 63:11

44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:44

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 2:22

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world— he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 12:9

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 21:8

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 

This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

1 Timothy 2:1-6