I haven’t read through the Bible for a long time, so as I’m reading through it now, I frequently come across very interesting passages I’d forgotten. The latest shows God pleased with a lie:

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, “When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.” [Exodus 1:15-20]

I was brought up to believe it is never right to lie, but here God blesses the midwives because they lied to Pharaoh to save lives. Hmmmm….