Breaking a Commandment in the Old Testament

[elvisman]

Not so fast. Sure, they’d been after anything they could find, yeah – but in this particular instance, they got it from the horse’s mouth and used it for all it was worth.

Try a political analogy: someone’s trying to smear an opposing candidate for a fictitious liaison with a prostitute and isn’t getting anywhere, and then it turns out the candidate gets caught en flagrante with a sheep. It’s a lie to say he had an affair with a prostitute, but it’s the complete truth to say ‘this guy does sheep!’.

???
I’ll say this for you - you give new meaning to the word, “rationalization”.

To deny the fact that the chief priests and the Sanhedrin - according to scripture - broke the commandment against bearing false witness is like saying I tried to kill my wife, but she survived the attack, so I didn’t commit a crime.

Utter nonsense.

 

[Mirdath]

???
I’ll say this for you - you give new meaning to the word, "rationalization".

**To deny the fact that the chief priests and the Sanhedrin - according to scripture - broke the commandment against bearing false witness is like saying I tried **to kill my wife, but she survived the attack, so I didn’t commit a crime.

Utter nonsense.

Not at all. If your wife falls out of a window twice but you only pushed her the first time, you weren’t trying to kill her the second time (probably because she divorced you and got a restraining order and a pistol, or you’re still in jail). Two different incidents, natch?

The priests sinned earlier by trying to find false testimony. In telling the truth as far as they could see it about Jesus’ blasphemy, they committed no sin.

 

[elvisman]

Not at all. If your wife falls out of a window twice but you only pushed her the first time, you weren’t trying to kill her the second time (probably because she divorced you and got a restraining order and a pistol, or you’re still in jail). Two different incidents, natch?

The priests sinned earlier by trying to find false testimony. In telling the truth as far as they could see it about Jesus’ blasphemy, they committed no sin.

Again, a rationlization.
They committed the sin of bearing false witness. There is no rationalizing that fact, based on the text.
**Nice try, though. **