Morris Dovey wrote:

If a leaders "falsehoods" are considered evidence of evil, what
about God lying to Abraham?

If you spell "God" with a capital G, then I would suggest that
standing in judgement of Him might not be your best choice.


Why not? There are no commandments against it. I had a (Jewish) pathologist
tell me: "You don't think God makes mistakes? Just look at the Gall Bladder!
He should have asked me..."

You make a good point, though. To the Christian, God/Jesus is without
imperfection. To the Jew, God sometimes ****s up. Here's an example:

Adam and Eve, and all who came after them, were vegetarians. By the time of
Noah, the world was so hoplessly depraved, wicked, and corrupt that God had
to destroy it and start over. God, having learned from his mistake,
permitted Noah and his descendants to eat meat. Many are of the opinion that
God is, right now, re-designing the gall bladder.

So, if you think things are bad now, just imagine how tough things would be
if everybody was a vegetarian!

To get back to the point, it is sometimes necessary to deliberately miss the
mark when attempting to follow ideals.

The Catholic Church takes the position that "No good can come from an
immoral act," yet they (sometimes reluctantly) absolve the penitent if he
makes his regrets, as in: "But officer, I HAD to hit him. He spit on my Ol'
Miss button!"